Rupert Graves
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 30, 1963 (age 63)
- Birthplace
- 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).
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Filmography
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Seacole
Movie · as Major Harvey
Security
Movie
Sessions
Movie
Missed Call
TV · 5 eps
Juliet & Romeo
Movie · as Prince Escalaus
The Break
Movie · as Ben's Friend
Bookish
TV · as Colonel Winters · 6 eps
Merchant Ivory
Movie · as Self
Wolves of War
Movie · as Professor Hopper
The Burning Girls
TV · as Simon Harper · 6 eps
Dalíland
Movie · as Captain Moore
The Reunion
TV · as Richard Degalais · 6 eps
Surface
TV · as Henry Huntley · 8 eps
Smyrna
Movie · as George Horton
Emma.
Movie · as Mr. Weston
McDonald & Dodds
TV · as Gordon Elmwood · 1 ep
Lie of You
Movie · as Eddie
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Movie · as Paulinus
Special Couple
Movie
The War of the Worlds
TV · as Frederick · 3 eps
Native
Movie · as Cane
Swimming with Men
Movie · as Luke
Silencio
Movie · as Peter
Krypton
TV · as Ter-El · 1 ep
Riviera
TV · as Gabriel Hirsch · 8 eps
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Movie · as DI Lestrade
Sacrifice
Movie · as Duncan Guthrie
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Movie · as Himself
The Family
TV · as John Warren · 12 eps
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
TV · as Haply · 1 ep
Bone in the Throat
Movie · as Rupert
12 Monkeys
TV · as Sebastian · 1 ep
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
TV · as Nicholas Whiteley · 2 eps
Turks & Caicos
Movie · as Stirling Rogers
Salting the Battlefield
Movie · as Stirling Rogers
The Crimson Field
TV · as Major Edward Crecy · 1 ep
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Movie · as Greg Lestrade
The White Queen
TV · as Thomas Stanley · 10 eps
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
TV · as Dragutin · 2 eps
Fast Girls
Movie · as David Temple
Seven Ages of Starlight
Movie
Predator Coast
Movie
Underwater Okavango
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Secret State
TV · as Felix Durrell · 4 eps
Putin, Russia and the West
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps
Speed Kills
TV · as Self - Narrator · 6 eps
Death in Paradise
TV · as James Lavender · 1 ep
Scott & Bailey
TV · as Nick Savage · 22 eps
Case Sensitive
TV · as Mark Bretherick · 2 eps
Made in Dagenham
Movie · as Peter Hopkins
Sherlock
TV · as DI Greg Lestrade · 11 eps
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Movie · as Lexy
Law & Order: UK
TV · 1 ep
Garrow's Law
TV · as Sir Arthur Hill · 12 eps
God on Trial
Movie · as Mordechai
Wallander
TV · 1 ep
Midnight Man
TV · as Daniel Cosgrave · 3 eps
Son of the Dragon
TV · as Prince of the North · 2 eps
Ashes to Ashes
TV · as Danny Moore · 1 ep
Death at a Funeral
Movie · as Robert
The Waiting Room
Movie · as George
To Be First
Movie
Clapham Junction
Movie · as Robin Cape
The Dinner Party
Movie · as Roger
Intervention
Movie · as Mark
Lewis
TV · as Alec Pickman · 1 ep
V for Vendetta
Movie · as Dominic
Rag Tale
Movie · as Eddy Taylor
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Movie · as William Shakespeare
Doctor Who
TV · as Riddell · 1 ep
Pride
Movie · as Linus (voice)
New Tricks
TV · as Adrian Levene · 1 ep
This World
TV · 12 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Lance Fortescue · 1 ep
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
TV · as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham · 4 eps
Extreme Ops
Movie · as Jeffrey
Spooks
TV · as William Sampson · 1 ep
The Forsyte Saga
TV · as Young Jolyon Forsyte, Jolyon Forsyte Jr · 6 eps
Room to Rent
Movie · as Mark
Waking the Dead
TV · as Colonel John Garrett · 2 eps
Take a Girl Like You
TV · as Patrick Standish · 3 eps
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Movie · as Joseph Lees
All My Loved Ones
Movie · as Nicholas Winton
Cleopatra
TV · as Octavian · 2 eps
The Blonde Bombshell
TV · as Dennis Hamilton · 2 eps
The Revengers' Comedies
Movie · as Oliver Knightly
Mrs. Dalloway
Movie · as Septimus Warren Smith
Different for Girls
Movie · as Paul Prentice
Bent
Movie · as Officer on Train
Intimate Relations
Movie · as Harold
The Innocent Sleep
Movie · as Alan Terry
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
TV · as Arthur Huntingdon · 3 eps
Doomsday Gun
Movie · as Jones
The Madness of King George
Movie · as Greville
Open Fire
Movie · as David Martin
Royal Celebration
Movie · as Neil
Una questione privata
Movie · as Milton
Harry
TV · as Dominic Collier · 1 ep
Damage
Movie · as Martyn Fleming
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Movie · as Philip Herriton
The Sheltering Desert
Movie
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Movie · as Axel von dem Bussche
The Children
Movie · as Gerald Ormerod
A Handful of Dust
Movie · as John Beaver
Maurice
Movie · as Alec Scudder
Inspector Morse
TV · as Billy · 1 ep
Fortunes of War
TV · as Simon Boulderstone · 3 eps
A Room with a View
Movie · as Freddy Honeychurch
Puccini
Movie · as Tonio
Good and Bad at Games
Movie
St. Ursula's in Danger
Movie · as Teddt
Mona
Movie · as Jim Atkins
All for Love
TV · as Jim Atkins · 1 ep
Vice Versa
TV · as Tipping · 6 eps
Return of the Saint
TV · as Prefect · 1 ep
The Famous Five
TV · as Yan · 2 eps