Dominic Purcell Biography

Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell (born 17 February 1970) is an English-born Australian actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Lincoln Burrows in Fox's Prison Break and Mick Rory / Heat Wave in CW's The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.

Early life

Purcell was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, the son of Phil Myrtvedt and Mary T. "Maureen" (ne Hassett) Purcell. He is of Irish and Norwegian descent. In 1972, he and his family moved to Bondi, New South Wales, and later to Western Sydney. He attended Blaxland East Public School and Blaxland High School, as well as St Dominic's College and McCarthy Catholic College. After becoming a landscape gardener, he grew tired of the profession and decided to become an actor after watching the film Platoon. He later attended the Australian Theatre for Young People and then enrolled at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, where he studied with Hugh Jackman.

Personal life

Purcell's three brothers and one sister live in Dundalk and hold Irish citizenship. In August 1997, Purcell started dating Rebecca Williamson. They married on 1 August 1998 after one year of dating and have four children together: son Joseph (born 12 August 1999), daughter Audrey (born 30 January 2001) and twins Lily-Rose and Augustus (born 7 July 2003). In October 2007, Purcell and Williamson separated, and divorced on 22 October 2008. Since 2011 he is dating former 90210 star AnnaLynne McCord the couple announced an amicable split in 2014 but rekindled their romance a year later, McCord told People Magazine she came back into his life as friend when the actor was diagnosed with skin cancer but soon became romantic again.

On June 1, 2016, Purcell suffered severe injuries on set in Morocco, after a misplaced iron bar used as a Prison Break (new miniseries) set piece had fallen onto his head. The Australian actor was immediately airlifted from Marrakesh to Casablanca, where he received emergency treatment for nasal fractures and various other injuries. As of June 7, Purcell is recovering, and the filming schedule has been adjusted to minimise disruption.

Filmography

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Film performances

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Mission: Impossible II	Ulrich
2001	Scenes of the Crime	Mark
2002	Equilibrium	Seamus
2003	Visitors	Luke
2004	Three Way	Lewis 'Lew' Brookbank
2004	Blade: Trinity	Drake
2006	'	Harris McKay
2007	Primeval	Tim Manfrey
2009	Blood Creek	Victor Alan Marshall
2011	Escapee	Jaxon
2011	Straw Dogs	Jeremy Niles
2011	Killer Elite	Davies
2011	House of the Rising Sun	Tony
2012	Bad Karma	Mack
2012	Hijacked	Otto Southwell
2013	Officer Down	Royce Walker
2013	Assault on Wall Street	Jim Baxford
2013	Vikingdom	Eirick
2013	Breakout	Tommy Baxter
2013	Suddenly	Baron
2013	Ice Soldiers	Malraux
2014	'	Detective Malone
2014	In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission	Hazen Kaine
2014	'	Larson
2014	'	Sailor O'Connor
2014	I Choose	"?	Short
2014	Turkey Shoot	Rick Tyler
2015	Abandoned	Jim
2015	Gridlocked	David Hendrix
2015	Isolation	Max

Television performances

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Home and Away	Constable Rogers	3 episodes
1997–98	Raw FM	Granger Hutton	Main role
1998	Moby Dick	Bulkington	2 episodes
1998	Water Rats	Alex	2 episodes
1999	Heartbreak High	Todd Gillespie	Recurring role, 6 episodes
1999	Silent Predators	Truck driver	Television film
1999	First Daughter	Troy Nelson	Television film
2001	BeastMaster	Kelb	Recurring role, 5 episodes
2001	'	Condillac	Episode: "The Travelers"
2001	Invincible	Keith Grady	Television film
2002–03	John Doe	John Doe	Main role
2004–05	North Shore	Tommy Ravetto	Recurring role, 5 episodes
2004	House	Ed Snow	Episode: "Fidelity"
2005–09	Prison Break	Lincoln Burrows	Main role
2009	Prison Break: The Final Break	Lincoln Burrows	Television film
2011	Castle	Russell Ganz	Episode: "To Love and Die in L.A."
2012	Common Law	John Crowl	Episode: "Gun!"
2014–15	'	Mick Rory / Heat Wave	Recurring role, 4 episodes
2016	Legends of Tomorrow	Mick Rory / Heat Wave	Main role
2017	Prison Break	Lincoln Burrows	Main role, Filming

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Prison Break: The Conspiracy	Lincoln Burrows	Voice

Awards and nominations

Film

Year	Work	Award	Category	Result
2009	Balibo	Inside Film Awards	Best Feature Film

Television

Year	Title	Award	Category	Result
2007	Prison Break	AACTA Awards	Best Actor