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 (114)
Missed Call
2026
Juliet & Romeo
2025
The Break
2025
Merchant Ivory
2024
Wolves of War
2023
The Burning Girls
2023
Dalíland
2022
The Reunion
2022
Surface
2022
Smyrna
2021
Emma.
2020
McDonald & Dodds
2020
A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
Special Couple
2019
The War of the Worlds
2019
Native
2018
Swimming with Men
2018
Silencio
2018
Krypton
2018
Riviera
2017
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
Sacrifice
2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
The Family
2016
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
Bone in the Throat
2015
12 Monkeys
2015
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015
Turks & Caicos
2014
Salting the Battlefield
2014
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2014
The Crimson Field
2014
Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013
The White Queen
2013
Fast Girls
2012
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012
Predator Coast
2012
Underwater Okavango
2012
Secret State
2012
Putin, Russia and the West
2012
Speed Kills
2012
Death in Paradise
2011
Scott & Bailey
2011
Case Sensitive
2011
Made in Dagenham
2010
Sherlock
2010
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
Law & Order: UK
2009
Garrow's Law
2009
God on Trial
2008
Wallander
2008
Midnight Man
2008
Son of the Dragon
2008
Ashes to Ashes
2008
Death at a Funeral
2007
The Waiting Room
2007
To Be First
2007
Clapham Junction
2007
The Dinner Party
2007
Intervention
2007
V for Vendetta
2006
Rag Tale
2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
Doctor Who
2005
Pride
2004
New Tricks
2004
This World
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
Extreme Ops
2002
Spooks
2002
The Forsyte Saga
2002
Room to Rent
2001
Waking the Dead
2001
Take a Girl Like You
2000
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
All My Loved Ones
1999
Cleopatra
1999
The Blonde Bombshell
1999
The Revengers' Comedies
1998
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
Bent
1997
Intimate Relations
1996
Different for Girls
1996
The Innocent Sleep
1996
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
Doomsday Gun
1994
The Madness of King George
1994
Open Fire
1994
Royal Celebration
1993
Una questione privata
1993
Harry
1993
Damage
1992
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
The Sheltering Desert
1991
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
The Children
1990
A Handful of Dust
1988
Maurice
1987
Inspector Morse
1987
Fortunes of War
1987
A Room with a View
1986
Puccini
1984
Good and Bad at Games
1983
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983
Mona
1982
Vice Versa
1981
Return of the Saint
1978
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Seacole
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