Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 30, 1963
Place of Birth
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Credits
116 titles
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).
Known For
Filmography
Missed Call
The Break
Ben's Friend
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
A Working Mom's Nightmare
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
Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
DI Lestrade
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
Nicholas Whiteley
Bone in the Throat
Rupert
12 Monkeys
Sebastian
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Dragutin
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
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Narrator (voice)
Secret State
Felix Durrell
Seven Ages of Starlight
Speed Kills
Self - Narrator
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