Prison Break star reveals his Mersey roots

THE star of the latest hit US television series has revealed his Merseyside roots.
Dominic Purcell, better known as musclebound Lincoln Burrows, in Prison Break, joins other international stars such as Halle Berry, and Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City fame, to reveal his previous connections with Liverpool.

Purcell is the latest in a long line of Merseyside actors who have burst through on the international stage in recent years, such as Liverpool-born Jason Isaacs, who has had a starring role in the Harry Potter films and last week narrowly missed out on a Golden Globe award for the BBC show The State Within.

In the case of 37-year-old Purcell, he was born here before emigrating with his family to Australia at the age of two.

“I spoke with a Liverpudlian accent until I was six years old and went to school,” he said.

“And there I was mercilessly teased by my Aussie buddies, so I quickly lost the Liverpudlian thing and started to speak like an Australian.”

However, his growing fame as Lincoln Burrows meant that another accent change was needed – and this time it was the Australian accent that was sacrificed.

He said: “I was speaking American all day and then I’d get home and speak Australian and I just felt so exhausted by going back and forth that I just decided to speak it all the time. Now I just speak American.”

Now, he says, he considers himself international, after having settled just outside Los Angeles where he moved to pursue acting after drama school.

(source: liverpooldailypost)