Rupert Graves
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Rupert Graves

Acting

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).

Films Featuring Rupert Graves

The Revengers' Comedies

19985.8

V for Vendetta

20067.9

Death at a Funeral

20076.9

Doomsday Gun

19945.6

Damage

19926.6

A Room with a View

19867.0

The Madness of King George

19946.8

God on Trial

20086.8

The Waiting Room

20075.4

Ultimate Tutankhamun

2013

Maurice

19877.6

A Working Mom's Nightmare

20196.5

Extreme Ops

20024.8

Royal Celebration

19937.5

A Handful of Dust

19886.1

Mrs. Dalloway

19975.7

Mona

1982

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns

20137.8

Intimate Relations

19965.4

The Good Times Are Killing Me

20093.7

What Destroyed the Hindenburg?

What Destroyed the Hindenburg?

Puccini

19844.3

Where Angels Fear to Tread

19916.7

Rag Tale

20053.3

Different for Girls

19967.2

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

19996.4

Seacole

Seacole

Fast Girls

20126.0

All My Loved Ones

19997.2

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

20055.0

To Be First

To Be First

2007

The Innocent Sleep

19965.0

Turks & Caicos

20146.3

Salting the Battlefield

20146.3

Merchant Ivory

20247.7

Seven Ages of Starlight

20126.8

Bone in the Throat

20152.0

The Sheltering Desert

199110.0

Clapham Junction

20076.5

Native

20185.5

Good and Bad at Games

Good and Bad at Games

1983

Una questione privata

Una questione privata

199310.0

Predator Coast

20129.0

Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings

201910.0

Underwater Okavango

2012

Smyrna

20217.6

The Dinner Party

20076.0

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

20167.8

Room to Rent

20016.0

Juliet & Romeo

20256.0

Sacrifice

20165.4

Open Fire

19947.3

The Plot to Kill Hitler

19906.2

Pride

20046.1

St. Ursula's in Danger

St. Ursula's in Danger

19839.0

Made in Dagenham

20106.7

Intervention

20075.5

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

20167.3

Swimming with Men

20186.1

Bent

19976.9

Silencio

20186.3

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans

20195.2

Emma.

20207.0

Special Couple

2019

Dalíland

20225.9

Wolves of War

20235.2

The Break

2025

Security

The Children

19904.9