Rupert Graves
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 30, 1963
- Birthplace
- 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).
Filmography
Security TBA
Actor
- Seacole
Seacole TBA
as Major Harvey
- What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
What Destroyed the Hindenburg? TBA
as Self - Narrator
Sessions 2026
Actor
The Break 2025
as Ben's Friend
Juliet & Romeo 2025
as Prince Escalaus
Merchant Ivory 2024
as Self
Wolves of War 2023
as Professor Hopper
Dalíland 2022
as Captain Moore
Smyrna 2021
as George Horton
Emma. 2020
as Mr. Weston
Lie of You 2019
as Eddie
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings 2019
as Narrator (voice)
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans 2019
as Paulinus
Special Couple 2019
Actor
Silencio 2018
as Peter
Swimming with Men 2018
as Luke
Native 2018
as Cane
Sacrifice 2016
as Duncan Guthrie
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock 2016
as Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride 2016
as DI Lestrade
Bone in the Throat 2015
as Rupert
Salting the Battlefield 2014
as Stirling Rogers
Turks & Caicos 2014
as Stirling Rogers
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns 2013
as Greg Lestrade
Ultimate Tutankhamun 2013
as Narrator (voice)
Seven Ages of Starlight 2012
Actor
Fast Girls 2012
as David Temple
Underwater Okavango 2012
as Narrator (voice)
Predator Coast 2012
Actor
Made in Dagenham 2010
as Peter Hopkins
The Good Times Are Killing Me 2009
as Lexy
God on Trial 2008
as Mordechai
The Dinner Party 2007
as Roger
The Waiting Room 2007
as George
Death at a Funeral 2007
as Robert
- To Be First
To Be First 2007
Actor
Clapham Junction 2007
as Robin Cape
Intervention 2007
as Mark
V for Vendetta 2006
as Dominic
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets 2005
as William Shakespeare
Rag Tale 2005
as Eddy Taylor
Pride 2004
as Linus (voice)
Extreme Ops 2002
as Jeffrey
Room to Rent 2001
as Mark
- Checkout Girl
Checkout Girl 2000
Director, Writer
Dreaming of Joseph Lees 1999
as Joseph Lees
All My Loved Ones 1999
as Nicholas Winton
The Revengers' Comedies 1998
as Oliver Knightly
Bent 1997
as Officer on Train
Different for Girls 1997
as Paul Prentice
Mrs. Dalloway 1997
as Septimus Warren Smith
Intimate Relations 1996
as Harold
The Innocent Sleep 1996
as Alan Terry
The Madness of King George 1994
as Greville
Open Fire 1994
as David Martin
Doomsday Gun 1994
as Jones
Royal Celebration 1993
as Neil
- Una questione privata
Una questione privata 1993
as Milton
Damage 1992
as Martyn Fleming
Where Angels Fear to Tread 1991
as Philip Herriton
The Sheltering Desert 1991
Actor
The Children 1990
as Gerald Ormerod
The Plot to Kill Hitler 1990
as Axel von dem Bussche
A Handful of Dust 1988
as John Beaver
Maurice 1987
as Alec Scudder
A Room with a View 1986
as Freddy Honeychurch
Puccini 1984
as Tonio
- St. Ursula's in Danger
St. Ursula's in Danger 1983
as Teddt
- Good and Bad at Games
Good and Bad at Games 1983
Actor
Mona 1982
as Jim Atkins
Credits from TMDB.