Rupert Graves
Acting
1963-06-30 · 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
Missed Call
2026 · Series
The Break
2025 · Movie
Juliet & Romeo
2025 · Movie
Merchant Ivory
2024 · Movie
The Burning Girls
2023 · Series
Wolves of War
2023 · Movie
The Reunion
2022 · Series
Dalíland
2022 · Movie
Surface
2022 · Series
Smyrna
2021 · Movie
McDonald & Dodds
2020 · Series
Emma.
2020 · Movie
The War of the Worlds
2019 · Series
A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019 · Movie
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019 · Movie
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019 · Movie
Special Couple
2019 · Movie
Silencio
2018 · Movie
Swimming with Men
2018 · Movie
Krypton
2018 · Series
Native
2018 · Movie
Riviera
2017 · Series
Sacrifice
2016 · Movie
The Family
2016 · Series
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016 · Series
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016 · Movie
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016 · Movie
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015 · Series
Bone in the Throat
2015 · Movie
12 Monkeys
2015 · Series
The Crimson Field
2014 · Series
Salting the Battlefield
2014 · Movie
Turks & Caicos
2014 · Movie
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013 · Movie
The White Queen
2013 · Series
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2013 · Series
Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013 · Movie
Secret State
2012 · Series
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012 · Movie
Speed Kills
2012 · Series
Fast Girls
2012 · Movie
Underwater Okavango
2012 · Movie
Putin, Russia and the West
2012 · Series
Predator Coast
2012 · Movie
Death in Paradise
2011 · Series
Scott & Bailey
2011 · Series
Case Sensitive
2011 · Series
Made in Dagenham
2010 · Movie
Sherlock
2010 · Series
Garrow's Law
2009 · Series
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009 · Movie
Law & Order: UK
2009 · Series
Wallander
2008 · Series
God on Trial
2008 · Movie
Midnight Man
2008 · Series
Son of the Dragon
2008 · Series
Ashes to Ashes
2008 · Series
The Dinner Party
2007 · Movie
The Waiting Room
2007 · Movie
Death at a Funeral
2007 · Movie
To Be First
2007 · Movie
Clapham Junction
2007 · Movie
Lewis
2007 · Series
Intervention
2007 · Movie
V for Vendetta
2006 · Movie
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005 · Movie
Rag Tale
2005 · Movie
Doctor Who
2005 · Series
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Pride
2004 · Movie
This World
2004 · Series
New Tricks
2004 · Series
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003 · Series
Extreme Ops
2002 · Movie
Spooks
2002 · Series
The Forsyte Saga
2002 · Series
Room to Rent
2001 · Movie
Waking the Dead
2001 · Series
Take a Girl Like You
2000 · Series
Checkout Girl
2000 · Movie
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999 · Movie
All My Loved Ones
1999 · Movie
Cleopatra
1999 · Series
The Blonde Bombshell
1999 · Series
The Revengers' Comedies
1998 · Movie
Bent
1997 · Movie
Mrs. Dalloway
1997 · Movie
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996 · Series
Different for Girls
1996 · Movie
Intimate Relations
1996 · Movie
The Innocent Sleep
1996 · Movie
The Madness of King George
1994 · Movie
Open Fire
1994 · Movie
Doomsday Gun
1994 · Movie
Royal Celebration
1993 · Movie
Harry
1993 · Series
Una questione privata
1993 · Movie
Damage
1992 · Movie
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991 · Movie
The Sheltering Desert
1991 · Movie
The Children
1990 · Movie
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990 · Movie
A Handful of Dust
1988 · Movie
Fortunes of War
1987 · Series
Maurice
1987 · Movie
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
A Room with a View
1986 · Movie
Puccini
1984 · Movie
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983 · Movie
Good and Bad at Games
1983 · Movie
Mona
1982 · Movie
Vice Versa
1981 · Series
Return of the Saint
1978 · Series
Security
Movie
Seacole
Movie
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Movie