Rupert Graves
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).
Known For
Acting
1998
asOliver Knightly
2005
asDominic
2007
asRobert
1994
asJones
1992
asMartyn Fleming
1986
asFreddy Honeychurch
1994
asGreville
2008
asMordechai
2007
asGeorge
2013
asNarrator (voice)
1987
asAlec Scudder
2019
asEddie
2002
asJeffrey
1993
asNeil
1988
asJohn Beaver
1997
asSeptimus Warren Smith
1982
asJim Atkins
2013
asGreg Lestrade
1996
asHarold
2009
asLexy
asSelf - Narrator
1984
asTonio
1991
asPhilip Herriton
2005
asEddy Taylor
1996
asPaul Prentice
1999
asJoseph Lees
asMajor Harvey
2012
asDavid Temple
1999
asNicholas Winton
2005
asWilliam Shakespeare
2007
as
1996
asAlan Terry
2014
asStirling Rogers
2014
asStirling Rogers
2024
asSelf
2012
as
2015
asRupert
1991
as
2007
asRobin Cape
2018
asCane
1983
as1993
asMilton
2012
as
2019
asNarrator (voice)
2012
asNarrator (voice)
2021
asGeorge Horton
2007
asRoger
2016
asDI Lestrade
2001
asMark
2025
asPrince Escalaus
2016
asDuncan Guthrie
1994
asDavid Martin
1990
asGerald Ormerod
1990
asAxel von dem Bussche
2004
asLinus (voice)
1983
asTeddt
2010
asPeter Hopkins
2007
asMark
2016
asHimself
2018
asLuke
1997
asOfficer on Train
2018
asPeter
2019
asPaulinus
2020
asMr. Weston
2019
as
2022
asCaptain Moore
2023
asProfessor Hopper
2025
asRobert Wall
asJames Lavender
asBilly
asWilliam Sampson
as
as
asSimon Boulderstone
asYoung Jolyon Forsyte
as
asDI Greg Lestrade
asPatrick Standish
asGabriel Hirsch
asSir Arthur Hill
asArthur Huntington
asNick Savage
asMark Bretherick
asRiddell
asDaniel Cosgrave
asFelix Durrell
asThomas Stanley
asOctavian
asJohn Warren
asAdrian Levene
asDominic Collier
asHaply
asColonel John Garrett
asSimon Harper
asSebastian
asGordon Elmwood
asNicholas Whiteley
asPrince of the North
asGeorge Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
as
asDragutin
asDennis Hamilton
asMaj Edward Crecy
asRichard Degalais
asTer-El
asFrederick
asNarrator
asDanny Moore
asPrefect
asHenry Huntley
asLance Fortescue
as 
asTipping
Production
Crew
Directing
2000
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