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