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). Description above is from the Wikipedia article Rupert Graves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Verona's Romeo & Juliet as Prince Escalaus
- 2024 · Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2023 · The Burning Girls as Simon Harper
- 2023 · Wolves of War as Professor Hopper
- 2022 · The Reunion as Richard Degalais
- 2022 · Dalíland as Captain Moore
- 2021 · Smyrna as George Horton
- 2020 · McDonald & Dodds as Gordon Elmwood
- 2020 · Emma. as Mr. Weston
- 2019 · The War of the Worlds as Frederick
- 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 · Silencio as Peter
- 2018 · Swimming with Men as Luke
- 2018 · Krypton as Ter-El
- 2018 · Native as Cane
- 2017 · Riviera as Gabriel Hirsch
- 2016 · Sacrifice as Duncan Guthrie
- 2016 · The Family as John Warren
- 2016 · The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells as Haply
- 2016 · Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock as Himself
- 2016 · Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as DI Lestrade
- 2015 · Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family as Nicholas Whiteley
- 2015 · Bone in the Throat as Rupert
- 2015 · 12 Monkeys as Sebastian
- 2014 · Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down as Dragutin
- 2014 · The Crimson Field as Maj Edward Crecy
- 2014 · Salting the Battlefield as Stirling Rogers
- 2014 · Turks & Caicos as Stirling Rogers
- 2013 · Sherlock: Many Happy Returns as Greg Lestrade
- 2013 · The White Queen as Thomas Stanley
- 2013 · Ultimate Tutankhamun as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Secret State as Felix Durrell
- 2012 · Seven Ages of Starlight as
- 2012 · Fast Girls as David Temple
- 2012 · Underwater Okavango as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Putin, Russia and the West as Narrator
- 2012 · Predator Coast as
- 2011 · Death in Paradise as James Lavender
- 2011 · Scott & Bailey as Nick Savage
- 2011 · Case Sensitive as Mark Bretherick
- 2010 · Made in Dagenham as Peter Hopkins
- 2010 · Sherlock as DI Greg Lestrade
- 2010 · Sherlock as Self / DI Lestrade
- 2009 · Garrow's Law as Sir Arthur Hill
- 2009 · The Good Times Are Killing Me as Lexy
- 2009 · Law & Order: UK as
- 2008 · Wallander as
- 2008 · God on Trial as Mordechai
- 2008 · Midnight Man as Daniel Cosgrave
- 2008 · Son of the Dragon as Prince of the North
- 2008 · Ashes to Ashes as Danny Moore
- 2007 · The Dinner Party as Roger
- 2007 · The Waiting Room as George
- 2007 · Death at a Funeral as Robert
- 2007 · To Be First as
- 2007 · Clapham Junction as Robin Cape
- 2007 · Intervention as Mark
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Dominic
- 2005 · A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as William Shakespeare
- 2005 · ShakespeaRe-Told as Shakespeare
- 2005 · Rag Tale as Eddy Taylor
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Riddell
- 2004 · Pride as Linus (voice)
- 2004 · This World as
- 2004 · New Tricks as Adrian Levene
- 2003 · Charles II: The Power and The Passion as
- 2003 · Charles II: The Power and The Passion as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
- 2002 · Extreme Ops as Jeffrey
- 2002 · Spooks as William Sampson
- 2002 · The Forsyte Saga as Young Jolyon Forsyte
- 2001 · Room to Rent as Mark
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Colonel John Garrett
- 2000 · Take a Girl Like You as Patrick Standish
- 1999 · Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Joseph Lees
- 1999 · All My Loved Ones as Nicholas Winton
- 1999 · Cleopatra as Octavian
- 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 · The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Arthur Huntington
- 1996 · Different for Girls as Paul Prentice
- 1996 · Intimate Relations as Harold
- 1996 · The Innocent Sleep as Alan Terry
- 1994 · The Madness of King George as Greville
- 1994 · Open Fire as David Martin
- 1994 · Doomsday Gun as Jones
- 1993 · Royal Celebration as Neil
- 1993 · Harry as Dominic Collier
- 1993 · Una questione privata as Milton
- 1992 · Damage as Martyn Fleming
- 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
- 1987 · Fortunes of War as Simon Boulderstone
- 1987 · Maurice as Alec Scudder
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Billy
- 1985 · A Room with a View as Freddy Honeychurch
- Future · What Destroyed the Hindenburg? as Self - Narrator
- Future · Burning Girls as
- 1984 · Puccini as Tonio
- 1983 · St. Ursula's in Danger as Teddt
- 1983 · Good and Bad at Games as
- 1982 · Mona as Jim Atkins
- 1978 · Return of the Saint as Prefect
- Future · Seacole as Major Harvey