Rupert Graves
Born: 1963-06-30 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2026
2025
- Juliet & Romeo as Prince Escalaus
- The Break as Ben's Friend
2024
- Merchant Ivory as Self
2023
- The Burning Girls as Simon Harper
- Wolves of War as Professor Hopper
2022
- Surface as Henry Huntley
- The Reunion as Richard Degalais
- Dalíland as Captain Moore
2021
- Smyrna as George Horton
2020
- McDonald & Dodds as Gordon Elmwood
- Emma. as Mr. Weston
2019
- The War of the Worlds as Frederick
- Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans as Paulinus
- Special Couple
- A Working Mom's Nightmare as Eddie
- Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings as Narrator (voice)
2018
- Krypton as Ter-El
- Swimming with Men as Luke
- Silencio as Peter
- Native as Cane
2017
- Riviera as Gabriel Hirsch
2016
- The Family as John Warren
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as DI Lestrade
- The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells as Haply
- Sacrifice as Duncan Guthrie
- Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock as Himself
2015
- 12 Monkeys as Sebastian
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family as Nicholas Whiteley
- Bone in the Throat as Rupert
2014
- Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down as Dragutin
- The Crimson Field as Major Edward Crecy
- Turks & Caicos as Stirling Rogers
- Salting the Battlefield as Stirling Rogers
2013
- The White Queen as Thomas Stanley
- Sherlock: Many Happy Returns as Greg Lestrade
- Ultimate Tutankhamun as Narrator (voice)
2012
- Secret State as Felix Durrell
- Fast Girls as David Temple
- Putin, Russia and the West as Narrator
- Seven Ages of Starlight
- Predator Coast
- Underwater Okavango as Narrator (voice)
- Speed Kills as Self - Narrator
2011
- Death in Paradise as James Lavender
- Scott & Bailey as Nick Savage
- Case Sensitive as Mark Bretherick
2010
- Sherlock as DI Greg Lestrade
- Made in Dagenham as Peter Hopkins
2009
- Law & Order: UK
- Garrow's Law as Sir Arthur Hill
- The Good Times Are Killing Me as Lexy
2008
- Wallander
- Ashes to Ashes as Danny Moore
- Son of the Dragon as Prince of the North
- Midnight Man as Daniel Cosgrave
- God on Trial as Mordechai
2007
- Death at a Funeral as Robert
- Intervention as Mark
- Clapham Junction as Robin Cape
- The Waiting Room as George
- The Dinner Party as Roger
- To Be First
2006
- V for Vendetta as Dominic
2005
- Doctor Who as Riddell
- Rag Tale as Eddy Taylor
- A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as William Shakespeare
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Lance Fortescue
- New Tricks as Adrian Levene
- This World
- Pride as Linus (voice)
2003
- Charles II: The Power and The Passion as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
2002
- Spooks as William Sampson
- The Forsyte Saga as Young Jolyon Forsyte
- Extreme Ops as Jeffrey
2001
- Waking the Dead as Colonel John Garrett
- Room to Rent as Mark
2000
- Take a Girl Like You as Patrick Standish
- Checkout Girl ... (Director)
1999
- Cleopatra as Octavian
- The Blonde Bombshell as Dennis Hamilton
- All My Loved Ones as Nicholas Winton
- Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Joseph Lees
1998
- The Revengers' Comedies as Oliver Knightly
1997
- Bent as Officer on Train
- Mrs. Dalloway as Septimus Warren Smith
1996
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Arthur Huntingdon
- Different for Girls as Paul Prentice
- Intimate Relations as Harold
- The Innocent Sleep as Alan Terry
1994
- The Madness of King George as Greville
- Doomsday Gun as Jones
- Open Fire as David Martin
1993
- Harry as Dominic Collier
- Royal Celebration as Neil
- Una questione privata as Milton
1992
- Damage as Martyn Fleming
1991
- Where Angels Fear to Tread as Philip Herriton
- The Sheltering Desert
1990
- The Plot to Kill Hitler as Axel von dem Bussche
- The Children as Gerald Ormerod
1988
- A Handful of Dust as John Beaver
1987
- Inspector Morse as Billy
- Maurice as Alec Scudder
- Fortunes of War as Simon Boulderstone
1986
- A Room with a View as Freddy Honeychurch
1984
- Puccini as Tonio
1983
1982
- Mona as Jim Atkins
1981
- Vice Versa as Tipping
1978
- Return of the Saint as Prefect