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   His real name is Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell.

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   Dominic has four children: a son, Joseph (born 12.08.1999), a daughter, Audrey (born 30.01.2001), and twins Lily-Rose and Augustus (born 7.07.2003).

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   He surfed in his youth.

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   Dominic has a tattoo on his left arm with his children's birth dates.

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   At the age of two, Dominic and his family left England for Sydney's Bondi, then for the Western Suburbs.

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   Dominic's paternal grandfather is Norwegian, a native of Bergen, which accounts for Dominic's Norwegian middle names. At the same time, his paternal grandmother is American of Irish descent.

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   Purcell was tired of being a "specialist" in landscapes. After watching the film Platoon, he decides to become an actor and attends drama school. He studied at the Australian Theatre for Young People ("ATYP"), later enrolling at the Western Academy of Performing Arts. There Dominic studied alongside Hugh Jackman, and it was there that he met his future wife Rebecca.