Early Life and Work
Purefoy was born in Taunton, Somerset the eldest son of Anthony Chetwynd Purefoy and Shirley Taylor. He was a boarder at Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset which he left with only one O-level. Later he went to night school and got 11 more, then took his A-levels. He worked at Yeovil District Hospital as a porter before studying acting at the British drama school the Central School of Speech and Drama, while trying to sell copies of the Socialist Worker in his spare time.
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