Rupert Graves
Known for: Acting
Born: June 30, 1963
Place of birth: Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
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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Filmography
70 movies · 46 TV shows, newest first
3.0
Missed Call
2026
NR
The Break
2025
6.0
Juliet & Romeo
2025
7.7
Merchant Ivory
2024
6.9
The Burning Girls
2023
5.2
Wolves of War
2023
6.3
The Reunion
2022
5.9
Dalíland
2022
6.3
Surface
2022
7.8
Smyrna
2021
7.6
McDonald & Dodds
2020
7.0
Emma.
2020
6.6
The War of the Worlds
2019
6.5
A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019
10.0
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019
5.2
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
NR
Special Couple
2019
6.3
Silencio
2018
6.1
Swimming with Men
2018
7.1
Krypton
2018
5.5
Native
2018
6.1
Riviera
2017
5.4
Sacrifice
2016
6.4
The Family
2016
6.0
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
7.3
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
7.8
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
10.0
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015
2.0
Bone in the Throat
2015
7.4
12 Monkeys
2015
7.5
The Crimson Field
2014
6.3
Salting the Battlefield
2014
6.3
Turks & Caicos
2014
7.8
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013
7.3
The White Queen
2013
4.8
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2013
NR
Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013
7.1
Secret State
2012
6.8
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012
NR
Speed Kills
2012
6.0
Fast Girls
2012
NR
Underwater Okavango
2012
2.0
Putin, Russia and the West
2012
9.0
Predator Coast
2012
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011
7.3
Scott & Bailey
2011
6.9
Case Sensitive
2011
6.7
Made in Dagenham
2010
8.5
Sherlock
2010
7.7
Garrow's Law
2009
3.7
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
7.0
Law & Order: UK
2009
7.4
Wallander
2008
6.8
God on Trial
2008
5.2
Midnight Man
2008
5.1
Son of the Dragon
2008
7.7
Ashes to Ashes
2008
6.0
The Dinner Party
2007
5.4
The Waiting Room
2007
6.9
Death at a Funeral
2007NR
To Be First
2007
6.5
Clapham Junction
2007
7.6
Lewis
2007
5.5
Intervention
2007
7.9
V for Vendetta
2006
5.0
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
3.3
Rag Tale
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
6.1
Pride
2004
6.0
This World
2004
7.3
New Tricks
2004
6.3
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
4.8
Extreme Ops
2002
7.7
Spooks
2002
7.9
The Forsyte Saga
2002
6.0
Room to Rent
2001
7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
5.5
Take a Girl Like You
20008.0
Checkout Girl
2000
6.4
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
7.2
All My Loved Ones
1999
6.6
Cleopatra
1999
3.5
The Blonde Bombshell
1999
5.8
The Revengers' Comedies
1998
6.8
Bent
1997
5.7
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
7.5
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
5.4
Intimate Relations
1996
7.1
Different for Girls
1996
5.0
The Innocent Sleep
1996
6.8
The Madness of King George
1994
7.3
Open Fire
1994
5.6
Doomsday Gun
1994
7.5
Royal Celebration
19935.3
Harry
199310.0
Una questione privata
1993
6.6
Damage
1992
6.7
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
10.0
The Sheltering Desert
1991
4.9
The Children
1990
6.2
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
6.1
A Handful of Dust
1988
6.3
Fortunes of War
1987
7.6
Maurice
1987
7.9
Inspector Morse
1987
7.0
A Room with a View
1986
4.3
Puccini
19849.0
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983NR
Good and Bad at Games
1983
NR
Mona
1982
7.0
Vice Versa
1981
7.0
Return of the Saint
1978NR
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
—NR
Seacole
—
NR
Security
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