Name
Rupert Graves
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1963-06-30 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Biography
Rupert S. Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), The Madness of King George (1984), and The Forsyte Saga (2002). Since 2010, he has starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock.
Graves first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E. M. Forster's novels A Room with a View (1985), and Maurice (1987), before going on to appear in films including A Handful of Dust (1988), The Madness of King George (1994), Different for Girls (1996), and Intimate Relations (1996). Graves's role in Intimate Relations won him the Best Actor award at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival. He was also acclaimed for his portrayal of Young Jolyon Forsyte in the television miniseries The Forsyte Saga.
Later, he appeared in films such as V for Vendetta (2005), Death at a Funeral (2007), Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019), and Emma (2020), and in TV series such as Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003), A Waste of Shame (2005), Sherlock (2010–), The Crimson Field (2014), and The Family (2016).
Known For
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In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known onl...
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When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with roo...
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A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few s...
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Brainy Roman teenager Atti is always coming up with schemes, but one ultimately goes too f...
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While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group o...
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Set at the dawn of the fourteenth century, a revisionist adaptation of history's most cele...
- 1998 The Revengers' Comedies as Oliver Knightly
- 2006 V for Vendetta as Dominic
- 2007 Death at a Funeral as Robert
- 1994 Doomsday Gun as Jones
- 1992 Damage as Martyn Fleming
- 1986 A Room with a View as Freddy Honeychurch
- 1994 The Madness of King George as Greville
- 2008 God on Trial as Mordechai
- 2007 The Waiting Room as George
- 2013 Ultimate Tutankhamun as Narrator (voice)
- 1987 Maurice as Alec Scudder
- 2019 Lie of You as Eddie
- 2002 Extreme Ops as Jeffrey
- 1993 Royal Celebration as Neil
- 1988 A Handful of Dust as John Beaver
- 1997 Mrs. Dalloway as Septimus Warren Smith
- 1982 Mona as Jim Atkins
- 2013 Sherlock: Many Happy Returns as Greg Lestrade
- 1996 Intimate Relations as Harold
- 2009 The Good Times Are Killing Me as Lexy
- Soon What Destroyed the Hindenburg? as Self - Narrator
- 1984 Puccini as Tonio
- 1991 Where Angels Fear to Tread as Philip Herriton
- 2005 Rag Tale as Eddy Taylor
- 1996 Different for Girls as Paul Prentice
- 1999 Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Joseph Lees
- Soon Seacole as Major Harvey
- 2012 Fast Girls as David Temple
- 1999 All My Loved Ones as Nicholas Winton
- 2005 A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as William Shakespeare
- 2007 To Be First
- 1996 The Innocent Sleep as Alan Terry
- 2014 Turks & Caicos as Stirling Rogers
- 2014 Salting the Battlefield as Stirling Rogers
- 2024 Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2012 Seven Ages of Starlight
- 2015 Bone in the Throat as Rupert
- 1991 The Sheltering Desert
- 2007 Clapham Junction as Robin Cape
- 2018 Native as Cane
- 1983 Good and Bad at Games
- 1993 Una questione privata as Milton
- 2012 Predator Coast
- 2019 Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 Underwater Okavango as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 Smyrna as George Horton
- 2007 The Dinner Party as Roger
- 2016 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as DI Lestrade
- 2001 Room to Rent as Mark
- 2025 Juliet & Romeo as Prince Escalaus
- 2016 Sacrifice as Duncan Guthrie
- 1994 Open Fire as David Martin
- 1990 The Plot to Kill Hitler as Axel von dem Bussche
- 2004 Pride as Linus (voice)
- 1983 St. Ursula's in Danger as Teddt
- 2010 Made in Dagenham as Peter Hopkins
- 2007 Intervention as Mark
- 2016 Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock as Himself
- 2018 Swimming with Men as Luke
- 1997 Bent as Officer on Train
- 2018 Silencio as Peter
- 2019 Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans as Paulinus
- 2020 Emma. as Mr. Weston
- 2019 Special Couple
- 2022 Dalíland as Captain Moore
- 2023 Wolves of War as Professor Hopper
- 2025 The Break as Ben's Friend
- Soon Security
- 1990 The Children as Gerald Ormerod
- Soon Sessions
- 2011 Death in Paradise ( 1 episode ) as James Lavender
- 1987 Inspector Morse ( 1 episode ) as Billy
- 2002 Spooks ( 1 episode ) as William Sampson
- 2009 Law & Order: UK ( 1 episode )
- 2008 Wallander ( 1 episode )
- 2002 The Forsyte Saga ( 6 episodes ) as Young Jolyon Forsyte
- 2010 Sherlock ( 11 episodes ) as DI Greg Lestrade
- 2000 Take a Girl Like You ( 3 episodes ) as Patrick Standish
- 2017 Riviera ( 8 episodes ) as Gabriel Hirsch
- 2009 Garrow's Law ( 12 episodes ) as Sir Arthur Hill
- 1996 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 3 episodes ) as Arthur Huntingdon
- 2011 Scott & Bailey ( 22 episodes ) as Nick Savage
- 2011 Case Sensitive ( 2 episodes ) as Mark Bretherick
- 2005 Doctor Who ( 1 episode ) as Riddell
- 2008 Midnight Man ( 3 episodes ) as Daniel Cosgrave
- 2012 Secret State ( 4 episodes ) as Felix Durrell
- 1999 Cleopatra ( 2 episodes ) as Octavian
- 2013 The White Queen ( 10 episodes ) as Thomas Stanley
- 2016 The Family ( 12 episodes ) as John Warren
- 2004 New Tricks ( 1 episode ) as Adrian Levene
- 2016 The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells ( 1 episode ) as Haply
- 2001 Waking the Dead ( 2 episodes ) as Colonel John Garrett
- 2023 The Burning Girls ( 6 episodes ) as Simon Harper
- 2015 12 Monkeys ( 1 episode ) as Sebastian
- 2020 McDonald & Dodds ( 1 episode ) as Gordon Elmwood
- 2015 Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family ( 2 episodes ) as Nicholas Whiteley
- 2008 Son of the Dragon ( 2 episodes ) as Prince of the North
- 2004 This World ( 12 episodes )
- 2013 Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down ( 2 episodes ) as Dragutin
- 1999 The Blonde Bombshell ( 2 episodes ) as Dennis Hamilton
- 2022 The Reunion ( 6 episodes ) as Richard Degalais
- 2018 Krypton ( 1 episode ) as Ter-El
- 2019 The War of the Worlds ( 3 episodes ) as Frederick
- 2012 Putin, Russia and the West ( 4 episodes ) as Narrator
- 2008 Ashes to Ashes ( 1 episode ) as Danny Moore
- 1978 Return of the Saint ( 1 episode ) as Prefect
- 2022 Surface ( 8 episodes ) as Henry Huntley
- 2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Lance Fortescue
- 2026 Missed Call ( 5 episodes )
- 1981 Vice Versa ( 6 episodes ) as Tipping
- 1987 Fortunes of War ( 3 episodes ) as Simon Boulderstone
- 2003 Charles II: The Power and The Passion ( 4 episodes ) as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
- 1993 Harry ( 1 episode ) as Dominic Collier
- 2014 The Crimson Field ( 1 episode ) as Major Edward Crecy
- 2002 The Forsyte Saga ( 4 episodes ) as Jolyon Forsyte Jr
- 2012 Speed Kills ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Narrator
- 2007 Lewis ( 1 episode ) as Alec Pickman
- 2025 Bookish ( 6 episodes ) as Colonel Winters
- 1978 The Famous Five ( 2 episodes ) as Yan
