Acting
Rupert Graves
EN, EL, ZH, ES cinema · 71 credits
Born
30 June 1963 (age 63)
Birthplace
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
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
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
as Self - Narrator
Seacole
Seacole
as Major Harvey
Security
Actor
Juliet & Romeo
as Prince Escalaus
The Break
as Ben's Friend
Merchant Ivory
as Self
Wolves of War
as Professor Hopper
Dalíland
as Captain Moore
Smyrna
as George Horton
Emma.
as Mr. Weston
Lie of You
as Eddie
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
as Narrator (voice)
Native
as Cane
Silencio
as Peter
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as DI Lestrade
Sacrifice
as Duncan Guthrie
Bone in the Throat
as Rupert
Turks & Caicos
as Stirling Rogers
Salting the Battlefield
as Stirling Rogers
Ultimate Tutankhamun
as Narrator (voice)
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
as Greg Lestrade
Fast Girls
as David Temple
Underwater Okavango
as Narrator (voice)
Made in Dagenham
as Peter Hopkins
God on Trial
as Mordechai
Death at a Funeral
as Robert
The Waiting Room
as George
Clapham Junction
as Robin Cape
The Dinner Party
as Roger
Intervention
as Mark
V for Vendetta
as Dominic
Rag Tale
as Eddy Taylor
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
as William Shakespeare
Pride
as Linus (voice)
Extreme Ops
as Jeffrey
Room to Rent
as Mark
Checkout Girl
2000
Checkout Girl
Director, Writer
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Joseph Lees
All My Loved Ones
as Nicholas Winton
The Revengers' Comedies
as Oliver Knightly
Mrs. Dalloway
as Septimus Warren Smith
Different for Girls
as Paul Prentice
Bent
as Officer on Train
Intimate Relations
as Harold
The Innocent Sleep
as Alan Terry
Doomsday Gun
as Jones
The Madness of King George
as Greville
Open Fire
as David Martin
Damage
as Martyn Fleming
Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Philip Herriton
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Axel von dem Bussche
The Children
as Gerald Ormerod
A Handful of Dust
as John Beaver
Maurice
as Alec Scudder
A Room with a View
as Freddy Honeychurch
Puccini
as Tonio
Mona
as Jim Atkins