Rupert Graves
Acting
Born: Jun 30, 1963
From: Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Credits: 30 titles
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).
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Working Mom's Nightmare | Eddie | 2019 | 6.5 |
| Ultimate Tutankhamun | Narrator (voice) | 2013 | — |
| Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Greg Lestrade | 2013 | 8.0 |
| Fast Girls | David Temple | 2012 | 6.1 |
| The Good Times Are Killing Me | Lexy | 2009 | 3.7 |
| God on Trial | Mordechai | 2008 | 6.8 |
| Death at a Funeral | Robert | 2007 | 6.922 |
| The Waiting Room | George | 2007 | 5.5 |
| V for Vendetta | Dominic | 2006 | 7.899 |
| Rag Tale | Eddy Taylor | 2005 | 3.571 |
| A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets | William Shakespeare | 2005 | 5.0 |
| Extreme Ops | Jeffrey | 2002 | 4.748 |
| Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Joseph Lees | 1999 | 6.4 |
| All My Loved Ones | Nicholas Winton | 1999 | 7.25 |
| The Revengers' Comedies | Oliver Knightly | 1998 | 5.773 |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Septimus Warren Smith | 1997 | 5.611 |
| Intimate Relations | Harold | 1996 | 5.353 |
| Different for Girls | Paul Prentice | 1996 | 7.145 |
| Doomsday Gun | Jones | 1994 | 5.647 |
| The Madness of King George | Greville | 1994 | 6.803 |
| Royal Celebration | Neil | 1993 | 7.5 |
| Damage | Martyn Fleming | 1992 | 6.57 |
| Where Angels Fear to Tread | Philip Herriton | 1991 | 6.569 |
| A Handful of Dust | John Beaver | 1988 | 6.107 |
| Maurice | Alec Scudder | 1987 | 7.61 |
| A Room with a View | Freddy Honeychurch | 1986 | 6.946 |
| Puccini | Tonio | 1984 | 3.667 |
| Mona | Jim Atkins | 1982 | — |
| What Destroyed the Hindenburg? | Self - Narrator | — | |
| Seacole | Major Harvey | — | |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1963 |
| From | Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, … |