Rupert Graves
Acting
Born: June 30, 1963 (age 63) · Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Highest Rated
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
V for Vendetta
2006
Sherlock
2010
Doctor Who
2005
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
Emma.
2020
Death at a Funeral
2007
12 Monkeys
2015
A Room with a View
1986
Damage
1992
Maurice
1987
Krypton
2018
The White Queen
2013
Photos (2)
Movies (60)
V for Vendetta
Dominic
Damage
Martyn Fleming
Emma.
Mr. Weston
Death at a Funeral
Robert
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
DI Lestrade
A Room with a View
Freddy Honeychurch
Maurice
Alec Scudder
Dalíland
Captain Moore
The Madness of King George
Greville
Turks & Caicos
Stirling Rogers
Salting the Battlefield
Stirling Rogers
Made in Dagenham
Peter Hopkins
Juliet & Romeo
Prince Escalaus
A Handful of Dust
John Beaver
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Paulinus
Bent
Officer on Train
Fast Girls
David Temple
Swimming with Men
Luke
Silencio
Peter
Extreme Ops
Jeffrey
The Break
Ben's Friend
Mrs. Dalloway
Septimus Warren Smith
Doomsday Gun
Jones
God on Trial
Mordechai
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Philip Herriton
Room to Rent
Mark
The Revengers' Comedies
Oliver Knightly
Pride
Linus (voice)
Different for Girls
Paul Prentice
Sacrifice
Duncan Guthrie
Underwater Okavango
Narrator (voice)
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Joseph Lees
Wolves of War
Professor Hopper
The Children
Gerald Ormerod
Smyrna
George Horton
Clapham Junction
Robin Cape
Predator Coast
2012
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
William Shakespeare
Intimate Relations
Harold
Bone in the Throat
Rupert
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Narrator (voice)
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Axel von dem Bussche
Open Fire
David Martin
The Innocent Sleep
Alan Terry
The Waiting Room
George
Intervention
Mark
A Working Mom's Nightmare
Eddie
Puccini
Tonio
The Dinner Party
Roger
All My Loved Ones
Nicholas Winton
Rag Tale
Eddy Taylor
Royal Celebration
Neil
Mona
Jim Atkins
Native
Cane
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Greg Lestrade
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Lexy
The Sheltering Desert
1991
Special Couple
2019
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Narrator (voice)
TV Shows (45)
Doctor Who
Riddell · 1 eps
Death in Paradise
James Lavender · 1 eps
New Tricks
Adrian Levene · 1 eps
Spooks
William Sampson · 1 eps
Sherlock
DI Greg Lestrade · 11 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Lance Fortescue · 1 eps
12 Monkeys
Sebastian · 1 eps
Waking the Dead
Colonel John Garrett · 2 eps
Lewis
Alec Pickman · 1 eps
Inspector Morse
Billy · 1 eps
Krypton
Ter-El · 1 eps
Surface
Henry Huntley · 8 eps
Law & Order: UK
1 eps
The White Queen
Thomas Stanley · 10 eps
Riviera
Gabriel Hirsch · 8 eps
Wallander
1 eps
Ashes to Ashes
Danny Moore · 1 eps
McDonald & Dodds
Gordon Elmwood · 1 eps
Return of the Saint
Prefect · 1 eps
Scott & Bailey
Nick Savage · 22 eps
The Forsyte Saga
Young Jolyon Forsyte · 6 eps
The Forsyte Saga
Jolyon Forsyte Jr · 4 eps
Secret State
Felix Durrell · 4 eps
The War of the Worlds
Frederick · 3 eps
This World
12 eps
Fortunes of War
Simon Boulderstone · 3 eps
The Reunion
Richard Degalais · 6 eps
Cleopatra
Octavian · 2 eps
Garrow's Law
Sir Arthur Hill · 12 eps
The Family
John Warren · 12 eps
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Dragutin · 2 eps
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham · 4 eps
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
Haply · 1 eps
Missed Call
5 eps
The Burning Girls
Simon Harper · 6 eps
The Crimson Field
Major Edward Crecy · 1 eps
Midnight Man
Daniel Cosgrave · 3 eps
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Arthur Huntingdon · 3 eps
Son of the Dragon
Prince of the North · 2 eps
Take a Girl Like You
Patrick Standish · 3 eps
Case Sensitive
Mark Bretherick · 2 eps
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
Nicholas Whiteley · 2 eps
The Blonde Bombshell
Dennis Hamilton · 2 eps
Putin, Russia and the West
Narrator · 4 eps
Vice Versa
Tipping · 6 eps
