Rupert Graves
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 30, 1963 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
- Credits
- 118
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
2026TV
The Break
2025Movie
Ben's Friend
Bookish
2025TV
Colonel Winters
Juliet & Romeo
2025Movie
Prince Escalaus
Merchant Ivory
2024Movie
Self
The Burning Girls
2023TV
Simon Harper
Wolves of War
2023Movie
Professor Hopper
The Reunion
2022TV
Richard Degalais
Dalíland
2022Movie
Captain Moore
Surface
2022TV
Henry Huntley
Smyrna
2021Movie
George Horton
McDonald & Dodds
2020TV
Gordon Elmwood
Emma.
2020Movie
Mr. Weston
The War of the Worlds
2019TV
Frederick
A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019Movie
Eddie
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019Movie
Narrator (voice)
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019Movie
Paulinus
Special Couple
2019Movie
Silencio
2018Movie
Peter
Swimming with Men
2018Movie
Luke
Krypton
2018TV
Ter-El
Native
2018Movie
Cane
Riviera
2017TV
Gabriel Hirsch
Sacrifice
2016Movie
Duncan Guthrie
The Family
2016TV
John Warren
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016TV
Haply
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016Movie
Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016Movie
DI Lestrade
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015TV
Nicholas Whiteley
Bone in the Throat
2015Movie
Rupert
12 Monkeys
2015TV
Sebastian
The Crimson Field
2014TV
Major Edward Crecy
Salting the Battlefield
2014Movie
Stirling Rogers
Turks & Caicos
2014Movie
Stirling Rogers
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013Movie
Greg Lestrade
The White Queen
2013TV
Thomas Stanley
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2013TV
Dragutin
Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013Movie
Narrator (voice)
Secret State
2012TV
Felix Durrell
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012Movie
Speed Kills
2012TV
Self - Narrator
Fast Girls
2012Movie
David Temple
Underwater Okavango
2012Movie
Narrator (voice)
Putin, Russia and the West
2012TV
Narrator
Predator Coast
2012Movie
Death in Paradise
2011TV
James Lavender
Scott & Bailey
2011TV
Nick Savage
Case Sensitive
2011TV
Mark Bretherick
Made in Dagenham
2010Movie
Peter Hopkins
Sherlock
2010TV
DI Greg Lestrade
Garrow's Law
2009TV
Sir Arthur Hill
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009Movie
Lexy
Law & Order: UK
2009TV
Wallander
2008TV
God on Trial
2008Movie
Mordechai
Midnight Man
2008TV
Daniel Cosgrave
Son of the Dragon
2008TV
Prince of the North
Ashes to Ashes
2008TV
Danny Moore
The Dinner Party
2007Movie
Roger
The Waiting Room
2007Movie
George
Death at a Funeral
2007Movie
Robert
To Be First
2007Movie
Clapham Junction
2007Movie
Robin Cape
Lewis
2007TV
Alec Pickman
Intervention
2007Movie
Mark
V for Vendetta
2006Movie
Dominic
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005Movie
William Shakespeare
Rag Tale
2005Movie
Eddy Taylor
Doctor Who
2005TV
Riddell
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004TV
Lance Fortescue
Pride
2004Movie
Linus (voice)
This World
2004TV
New Tricks
2004TV
Adrian Levene
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003TV
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Extreme Ops
2002Movie
Jeffrey
Spooks
2002TV
William Sampson
The Forsyte Saga
2002TV
Young Jolyon Forsyte, Jolyon Forsyte Jr
Room to Rent
2001Movie
Mark
Waking the Dead
2001TV
Colonel John Garrett
Take a Girl Like You
2000TV
Patrick Standish
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999Movie
Joseph Lees
All My Loved Ones
1999Movie
Nicholas Winton
Cleopatra
1999TV
Octavian
The Blonde Bombshell
1999TV
Dennis Hamilton
The Revengers' Comedies
1998Movie
Oliver Knightly
Bent
1997Movie
Officer on Train
Mrs. Dalloway
1997Movie
Septimus Warren Smith
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996TV
Arthur Huntingdon
Intimate Relations
1996Movie
Harold
Different for Girls
1996Movie
Paul Prentice
The Innocent Sleep
1996Movie
Alan Terry
The Madness of King George
1994Movie
Greville
Open Fire
1994Movie
David Martin
Doomsday Gun
1994Movie
Jones
Royal Celebration
1993Movie
Neil
Harry
1993TV
Dominic Collier
Una questione privata
1993Movie
Milton
Damage
1992Movie
Martyn Fleming
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991Movie
Philip Herriton
The Sheltering Desert
1991Movie
The Children
1990Movie
Gerald Ormerod
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990Movie
Axel von dem Bussche
A Handful of Dust
1988Movie
John Beaver
Fortunes of War
1987TV
Simon Boulderstone
Maurice
1987Movie
Alec Scudder
Inspector Morse
1987TV
Billy
A Room with a View
1986Movie
Freddy Honeychurch
Puccini
1984Movie
Tonio
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983Movie
Teddt
Good and Bad at Games
1983Movie
Mona
1982Movie
Jim Atkins
Vice Versa
1981TV
Tipping
Return of the Saint
1978TV
Prefect
The Famous Five
1978TV
Yan
Security
Movie
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Movie
Self - Narrator
Seacole
Movie
Major Harvey
Sessions
Movie