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
2025
- Juliet & Romeo as Prince Escalaus
- Kung Fu Kenzo as Robert Wall
- The Break as Ben's Friend
2024
- Merchant Ivory as Self
2023
- Wolves of War as Professor Hopper
- The Burning Girls as Simon Harper
2022
- Surface as Henry Huntley
- Dalíland as Captain Moore
- The Reunion as Richard Degalais
2021
- Smyrna as George Horton
2020
- McDonald & Dodds as Gordon Elmwood
- Emma. as Mr. Weston
2019
- Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans as Paulinus
- The War of the Worlds as Frederick
- Special Couple
- A Working Mom's Nightmare as Eddie
- Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings as Narrator (voice)
2018
- Krypton as Ter-El
- Native as Cane
- Swimming with Men as Luke
- Silencio as Peter
2017
- Riviera as Gabriel Hirsch
2016
- Sacrifice as Duncan Guthrie
- The Family as John Warren
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as DI Lestrade
- The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells as Haply
- Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock as Himself
2015
- 12 Monkeys as Sebastian
- Bone in the Throat as Rupert
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family as Nicholas Whiteley
2014
- Salting the Battlefield as Stirling Rogers
- Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down as Dragutin
- The Crimson Field as Maj Edward Crecy
- Turks & Caicos as Stirling Rogers
2013
- The White Queen as Thomas Stanley
- Sherlock: Many Happy Returns as Greg Lestrade
- Ultimate Tutankhamun as Narrator (voice)
2012
- Fast Girls as David Temple
- Secret State as Felix Durrell
- Underwater Okavango as Narrator (voice)
- Predator Coast
- Putin, Russia and the West as Narrator
- Seven Ages of Starlight
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
- God on Trial as Mordechai
- Son of the Dragon as Prince of the North
- Midnight Man as Daniel Cosgrave
2007
- Clapham Junction as Robin Cape
- Death at a Funeral as Robert
- Intervention as Mark
- The Dinner Party as Roger
- The Waiting Room as George
- 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
- Pride as Linus (voice)
- This World
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
- Checkout Girl ... (Director)
- Take a Girl Like You as Patrick Standish
1999
- Cleopatra as Octavian
- Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Joseph Lees
- The Blonde Bombshell as Dennis Hamilton
- All My Loved Ones as Nicholas Winton
1998
- The Revengers' Comedies as Oliver Knightly
1997
- Mrs. Dalloway as Septimus Warren Smith
- Bent as Officer on Train
1996
- Intimate Relations as Harold
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Arthur Huntingdon
- The Innocent Sleep as Alan Terry
- Different for Girls as Paul Prentice
1994
- Doomsday Gun as Jones
- The Madness of King George as Greville
- Open Fire as David Martin
1993
- Royal Celebration as Neil
- Harry as Dominic Collier
- Una questione privata as Milton
1992
- Damage as Martyn Fleming
1991
- Where Angels Fear to Tread as Philip Herriton
- The Sheltering Desert
1990
- The Children as Gerald Ormerod
- The Plot to Kill Hitler as Axel von dem Bussche
1988
- A Handful of Dust as John Beaver
1987
- Inspector Morse as Billy
- Maurice as Alec Scudder
- Fortunes of War as Simon Boulderstone
1985
- 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