Rupert Graves
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-06-30 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Rupert Graves
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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Acting
Seacole
as Major Harvey
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
as Self - Narrator
(2025)
Juliet & Romeo
as Prince Escalaus
(2025)
Kung Fu Kenzo
as Robert Wall
(2024)
Merchant Ivory
as Self
(2023)
Wolves of War
as Professor Hopper
(2022)
Dalíland
as Captain Moore
(2021)
Smyrna
as George Horton
(2020)
Emma.
as Mr. Weston
(2019)
(2019)
A Working Mom's Nightmare
as Eddie
(2019)
(2019)
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Silencio
as Peter
(2018)
Swimming with Men
as Luke
(2018)
Native
as Cane
(2016)
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as DI Lestrade
(2016)
Sacrifice
as Duncan Guthrie
(2016)
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
(2015)
Bone in the Throat
as Rupert
(2014)
Turks & Caicos
as Stirling Rogers
(2014)
Salting the Battlefield
as Stirling Rogers
(2013)
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
as Greg Lestrade
(2013)
Ultimate Tutankhamun
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
Fast Girls
as David Temple
(2012)
(2012)
Underwater Okavango
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
(2010)
Made in Dagenham
as Peter Hopkins
(2009)
(2008)
God on Trial
as Mordechai
(2007)
Death at a Funeral
as Robert
(2007)
Intervention
as Mark
(2007)
Clapham Junction
as Robin Cape
(2007)
The Waiting Room
as George
(2007)
The Dinner Party
as Roger
(2007)
(2006)
V for Vendetta
as Dominic
(2005)
Rag Tale
as Eddy Taylor
(2005)
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
as William Shakespeare
(2004)
Pride
as Linus (voice)
(2002)
Extreme Ops
as Jeffrey
(2001)
Room to Rent
as Mark
(1999)
All My Loved Ones
as Nicholas Winton
(1999)
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Joseph Lees
(1998)
The Revengers' Comedies
as Oliver Knightly
(1997)
Bent
as Officer on Train
(1997)
Mrs. Dalloway
as Septimus Warren Smith
(1996)
Different for Girls
as Paul Prentice
(1996)
Intimate Relations
as Harold
(1996)
The Innocent Sleep
as Alan Terry
(1994)
The Madness of King George
as Greville
(1994)
Open Fire
as David Martin
(1994)
Doomsday Gun
as Jones
(1993)
Royal Celebration
as Neil
(1993)
Una questione privata
as Milton
(1992)
Damage
as Martyn Fleming
(1991)
Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Philip Herriton
(1991)
(1990)
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Axel von dem Bussche
(1990)
The Children
as Gerald Ormerod
(1988)
A Handful of Dust
as John Beaver
(1987)
Maurice
as Alec Scudder
(1986)
A Room with a View
as Freddy Honeychurch
(1984)
Puccini
as Tonio
(1983)
(1983)
St. Ursula's in Danger
as Teddt
(1982)
Mona
as Jim Atkins
Crew
(2000)
Checkout Girl
Director, Writer