Rupert Graves
Acting
- Born:
- 1963-06-30
- Place of birth:
- 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
Sessions
Missed Call
The Break
Bookish
Juliet & Romeo
Merchant Ivory
The Burning Girls
Wolves of War
The Reunion
Dalíland
Surface
Smyrna
McDonald & Dodds
Emma.
The War of the Worlds
Lie of You
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Special Couple
Silencio
Swimming with Men
Krypton
Native
Riviera
Sacrifice
The Family
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
Bone in the Throat
12 Monkeys
The Crimson Field
Salting the Battlefield
Turks & Caicos
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
The White Queen
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Secret State
Seven Ages of Starlight
Speed Kills
Fast Girls
Underwater Okavango
Putin, Russia and the West
Predator Coast
Death in Paradise
Scott & Bailey
Case Sensitive
Made in Dagenham
Sherlock
Garrow's Law
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Law & Order: UK
Wallander
God on Trial
Midnight Man
Son of the Dragon
Ashes to Ashes
The Dinner Party
The Waiting Room
Death at a Funeral
To Be First
Clapham Junction
Lewis
Intervention
V for Vendetta
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Rag Tale
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Marple
Pride
This World
New Tricks
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Extreme Ops
Spooks
The Forsyte Saga
Room to Rent
Waking the Dead
Take a Girl Like You
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
All My Loved Ones
Cleopatra
The Blonde Bombshell
The Revengers' Comedies
Bent
Different for Girls
Mrs. Dalloway
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Intimate Relations
The Innocent Sleep
The Madness of King George
Open Fire
Doomsday Gun
Royal Celebration
Harry
Una questione privata
Damage
Where Angels Fear to Tread
The Sheltering Desert
The Children
The Plot to Kill Hitler
A Handful of Dust
Fortunes of War
Maurice
Inspector Morse
A Room with a View
Puccini
St. Ursula's in Danger
Good and Bad at Games
Mona
All for Love
Vice Versa
Return of the Saint
The Famous Five
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Seacole
Security