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).
114 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 114
Doctor Who
2005
Death in Paradise
2011
Damage
1992
Spooks
2002
Sherlock
2010
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Waking the Dead
2001
Inspector Morse
1987
New Tricks
2004
12 Monkeys
2015
Law & Order: UK
2009
Krypton
2018
Surface
2022
V for Vendetta
2006
Riviera
2017
The White Queen
2013
Wallander
2008
McDonald & Dodds
2020
Return of the Saint
1978
Ashes to Ashes
2008
Scott & Bailey
2011
This World
2004
The Forsyte Saga
2002
Garrow's Law
2009
Harry
1993
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
Emma.
2020
The War of the Worlds
2019
The Family
2016
Cleopatra
1999
Fortunes of War
1987
The Burning Girls
2023
The Crimson Field
2014
Secret State
2012
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
A Room with a View
1986
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
Maurice
1987
Death at a Funeral
2007
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2014
Case Sensitive
2011
Take a Girl Like You
2000
The Reunion
2022
Made in Dagenham
2010
Son of the Dragon
2008
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
Missed Call
2026
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015
Juliet & Romeo
2025
Vice Versa
1981
Bent
1997
Midnight Man
2008
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
The Madness of King George
1994
Salting the Battlefield
2014
Wolves of War
2023
Dalíland
2022
Turks & Caicos
2014
The Blonde Bombshell
1999
Extreme Ops
2002
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
Pride
2004
Clapham Junction
2007
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
Doomsday Gun
1994
Sacrifice
2016
Intimate Relations
1996
Merchant Ivory
2024
Different for Girls
1996
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
God on Trial
2008
All My Loved Ones
1999
A Handful of Dust
1988
Special Couple
2019
The Revengers' Comedies
1998
Intervention
2007
Silencio
2018
Swimming with Men
2018
Putin, Russia and the West
2012
Open Fire
1994
Fast Girls
2012
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
Royal Celebration
1993
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013
Bone in the Throat
2015
The Innocent Sleep
1996
A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019
Room to Rent
2001
Rag Tale
2005
The Waiting Room
2007
Seacole
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Smyrna
2021
The Children
1990
Puccini
1984
The Dinner Party
2007
Native
2018
The Sheltering Desert
1991
To Be First
2007
Mona
1982
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013
Una questione privata
1993
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012
Good and Bad at Games
1983
Predator Coast
2012
Speed Kills
2012
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983
The Break
2025
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
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Security
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Underwater Okavango
2012