Rupert Graves
- Acting
- June 30, 1963 · 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
Filmography
- Missed Call
- The Break · Ben's Friend
- Bookish · Colonel Winters
- Juliet & Romeo · Prince Escalaus
- Merchant Ivory · Self
- The Burning Girls · Simon Harper
- Wolves of War · Professor Hopper
- The Reunion · Richard Degalais
- Dalíland · Captain Moore
- Surface · Henry Huntley
- Smyrna · George Horton
- McDonald & Dodds · Gordon Elmwood
- Emma. · Mr. Weston
- The War of the Worlds · Frederick
- Lie of You · Eddie
- Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings · Narrator (Voice)
- Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans · Paulinus
- Special Couple
- Silencio · Peter
- Swimming with Men · Luke
- Krypton · Ter-El
- Native · Cane
- Riviera · Gabriel Hirsch
- Sacrifice · Duncan Guthrie
- The Family · John Warren
- The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells · Haply
- Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock · Self
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride · DI Lestrade
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family · Nicholas Whiteley
- Bone in the Throat · Rupert
- 12 Monkeys · Sebastian
- The Crimson Field · Major Edward Crecy
- Salting the Battlefield · Stirling Rogers
- Turks & Caicos · Stirling Rogers
- Sherlock: Many Happy Returns · Greg Lestrade
- The White Queen · Thomas Stanley
- Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down · Dragutin
- Ultimate Tutankhamun · Narrator (Voice)
- Secret State · Felix Durrell
- Seven Ages of Starlight
- Speed Kills · Self, Creator
- Fast Girls · David Temple
- Underwater Okavango · Narrator (Voice)
- Putin, Russia and the West · Narrator
- Predator Coast
- Death in Paradise · James Lavender
- Scott & Bailey · Nick Savage
- Case Sensitive · Mark Bretherick
- Made in Dagenham · Peter Hopkins
- Sherlock · DI Greg Lestrade
- Garrow's Law · Sir Arthur Hill
- The Good Times Are Killing Me · Lexy
- Law & Order: UK
- Wallander
- God on Trial · Mordechai
- Midnight Man · Daniel Cosgrave
- Son of the Dragon · Prince of the North
- Ashes to Ashes · Danny Moore
- The Dinner Party · Roger
- The Waiting Room · George
- Death at a Funeral · Robert
- To Be First
- Clapham Junction · Robin Cape
- Lewis · Alec Pickman
- Intervention · Mark
- V for Vendetta · Dominic
- A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets · William Shakespeare
- Rag Tale · Eddy Taylor
- Doctor Who · Riddell
- Agatha Christie's Marple · Lance Fortescue
- Pride · Linus (Voice)
- This World
- New Tricks · Adrian Levene
- Charles II: The Power and The Passion · George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
- Extreme Ops · Jeffrey
- Spooks · William Sampson
- The Forsyte Saga · Young Jolyon Forsyte, Jolyon Forsyte Jr
- Room to Rent · Mark
- Waking the Dead · Colonel John Garrett
- Take a Girl Like You · Patrick Standish