Born of Norwegian and Irish descent, Dominic Purcell was a native son of England but moved with his family to Australia at the age of two. There he spent the majority of his formative years, growing up in the suburbs Down Under. In his youth, Purcell flirted briefly with a career in landscaping – a profession that was in keeping with his working class roots – but by his mid-teens, the restless Purcell had discovered a new passion: acting. Purcell studied at The Australian Theatre for Young People and then later enrolled at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, where he studied
