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Rupert Graves
Rupert Graves

Rupert Graves

ActingBorn June 30, 1963 (age 62)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).

Filmography

2025
The Break

as Ben's Friend

Movie
2025
Juliet & Romeo

as Prince Escalaus

Movie
2024Movie
2023
The Burning Girls

as Simon Harper

TV
2023
Wolves of War

as Professor Hopper

Movie
2022
The Reunion

as Richard Degalais

TV
2022
Dalíland

as Captain Moore

Movie
2022
Surface

as Henry Huntley

TV
2021
Smyrna

as George Horton

Movie
2020
McDonald & Dodds

as Gordon Elmwood

TV
2020
Emma.

as Mr. Weston

Movie
2019TV
2019Movie
2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2018
Silencio

as Peter

Movie
2018Movie
2018
Krypton

as Ter-El

TV
2018
Native

as Cane

Movie
2017
Riviera

as Gabriel Hirsch

TV
2016
Sacrifice

as Duncan Guthrie

Movie
2016
The Family

as John Warren

TV
2016Movie
2015Movie
2015
12 Monkeys

as Sebastian

TV
2014
The Crimson Field

as Major Edward Crecy

TV
2014
Salting the Battlefield

as Stirling Rogers

Movie
2014
Turks & Caicos

as Stirling Rogers

Movie
2013Movie
2013
The White Queen

as Thomas Stanley

TV
2013
Ultimate Tutankhamun

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2012
Secret State

as Felix Durrell

TV
2012
Speed Kills

as Self - Narrator

TV
2012
Fast Girls

as David Temple

Movie
2012
Underwater Okavango

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2011
Death in Paradise

as James Lavender

TV
2011
Scott & Bailey

as Nick Savage

TV
2011
Case Sensitive

as Mark Bretherick

TV
2010
Made in Dagenham

as Peter Hopkins

Movie
2010
Sherlock

as DI Greg Lestrade

TV
2009
Garrow's Law

as Sir Arthur Hill

TV
2008TV
2008
God on Trial

as Mordechai

Movie
2008
Midnight Man

as Daniel Cosgrave

TV
2008
Son of the Dragon

as Prince of the North

TV
2008
Ashes to Ashes

as Danny Moore

TV
2007Movie
2007Movie
2007Movie
2007Movie
2007
Clapham Junction

as Robin Cape

Movie
2007
Lewis

as Alec Pickman

TV
2007Movie
2006
V for Vendetta

as Dominic

Movie
2005
Rag Tale

as Eddy Taylor

Movie
2005
Doctor Who

as Riddell

TV
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Lance Fortescue

TV
2004
Pride

as Linus (voice)

Movie
2004
New Tricks

as Adrian Levene

TV
2003
Charles II: The Power and The Passion

as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

TV
2002
Extreme Ops

as Jeffrey

Movie
2002
Spooks

as William Sampson

TV
2002
The Forsyte Saga

as Young Jolyon Forsyte

TV
2002
The Forsyte Saga

as Jolyon Forsyte Jr

TV
2001Movie
2001
Waking the Dead

as Colonel John Garrett

TV
2000
Take a Girl Like You

as Patrick Standish

TV
1999Movie
1999
All My Loved Ones

as Nicholas Winton

Movie
1999
Cleopatra

as Octavian

TV
1999
The Blonde Bombshell

as Dennis Hamilton

TV
1998
The Revengers' Comedies

as Oliver Knightly

Movie
1997
Bent

as Officer on Train

Movie
1997
Mrs. Dalloway

as Septimus Warren Smith

Movie
1996
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

as Arthur Huntingdon

TV
1996Movie
1996
Different for Girls

as Paul Prentice

Movie
1996
The Innocent Sleep

as Alan Terry

Movie
1994Movie
1994
Open Fire

as David Martin

Movie
1994
Doomsday Gun

as Jones

Movie
1993Movie
1993
Harry

as Dominic Collier

TV
1993Movie
1992
Damage

as Martyn Fleming

Movie
1991
Where Angels Fear to Tread

as Philip Herriton

Movie
1990
The Children

as Gerald Ormerod

Movie
1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler

as Axel von dem Bussche

Movie
1988
A Handful of Dust

as John Beaver

Movie
1987
Fortunes of War

as Simon Boulderstone

TV
1987
Maurice

as Alec Scudder

Movie
1987TV
1986
A Room with a View

as Freddy Honeychurch

Movie
1984
Puccini

as Tonio

Movie
1983Movie
1982
Mona

as Jim Atkins

Movie
1981
Vice Versa

as Tipping

TV
1978TV
Movie
Seacole

as Major Harvey

Movie
Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJune 30, 1963
Place of BirthWeston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Popularity1.6