Dominic Purcell

Dominic Purcell — Biography

Dominic Purcell is an England-born Australian actor recognized worldwide as Lincoln Burrows in Fox's Prison Break, the man trying to save his brother from a wrongful death sentence. He later secured another lasting role as Mick Rory / Heat Wave in the DC television universe. His size has steered him mostly towards action and adventure work.

He was born in Merseyside to an Irish mother and a father of Norwegian descent, and in 1972 the family moved to Sydney. He trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, studying alongside Hugh Jackman. Early work included the Australian series Raw FM and the title role in Fox's John Doe. He played Seamus in Equilibrium (2002) and Lewis Brookbank in Three Way (2004), and the same year reached a wide audience as the vampire Drake / Dracula in Blade: Trinity. In 2000 he had won the American green card lottery and settled in the United States.

The turning point was Prison Break, which began in 2005, ended in 2009 and returned with new episodes in 2017, with Wentworth Miller, Sarah Wayne Callies, Robert Knepper and Amaury Nolasco in the same cast. From 2014 he played Mick Rory in The Flash, and from 2016 to 2021 in Legends of Tomorrow. On film he also appeared in horror titles such as The Gravedancers and Blood Creek.