Rupert Graves
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).
Known For
All Movies (69)
- The Break2025 · as Ben's Friend
- Juliet & Romeo2025 · as Prince Escalaus
- Merchant Ivory2024 · as Self
- Wolves of War2023 · as Professor Hopper
- Dalíland2022 · as Captain Moore
- Smyrna2021 · as George Horton
- Emma.2020 · as Mr. Weston
- A Working Mom's Nightmare2019 · as Eddie
- Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings2019 · as Narrator (voice)
- Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans2019 · as Paulinus
- Special Couple2019
- Silencio2018 · as Peter
- Swimming with Men2018 · as Luke
- Native2018 · as Cane
- Sacrifice2016 · as Duncan Guthrie
- Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock2016 · as Himself
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride2016 · as DI Lestrade
- Bone in the Throat2015 · as Rupert
- Salting the Battlefield2014 · as Stirling Rogers
- Turks & Caicos2014 · as Stirling Rogers
- Sherlock: Many Happy Returns2013 · as Greg Lestrade
- Ultimate Tutankhamun2013 · as Narrator (voice)
- Seven Ages of Starlight2012
- Fast Girls2012 · as David Temple
- Underwater Okavango2012 · as Narrator (voice)
- Predator Coast2012
- Made in Dagenham2010 · as Peter Hopkins
- The Good Times Are Killing Me2009 · as Lexy
- God on Trial2008 · as Mordechai
- The Dinner Party2007 · as Roger
- The Waiting Room2007 · as George
- Death at a Funeral2007 · as Robert
- To Be First2007
- Clapham Junction2007 · as Robin Cape
- Intervention2007 · as Mark
- V for Vendetta2006 · as Dominic
- A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets2005 · as William Shakespeare
- Rag Tale2005 · as Eddy Taylor
- Pride2004 · as Linus (voice)
- Extreme Ops2002 · as Jeffrey
- Room to Rent2001 · as Mark
- Dreaming of Joseph Lees1999 · as Joseph Lees
- All My Loved Ones1999 · as Nicholas Winton
- The Revengers' Comedies1998 · as Oliver Knightly
- Bent1997 · as Officer on Train
- Mrs. Dalloway1997 · as Septimus Warren Smith
- Intimate Relations1996 · as Harold
- Different for Girls1996 · as Paul Prentice
- The Innocent Sleep1996 · as Alan Terry
- The Madness of King George1994 · as Greville
- Open Fire1994 · as David Martin
- Doomsday Gun1994 · as Jones
- Royal Celebration1993 · as Neil
- Una questione privata1993 · as Milton
- Damage1992 · as Martyn Fleming
- Where Angels Fear to Tread1991 · as Philip Herriton
- The Sheltering Desert1991
- The Children1990 · as Gerald Ormerod
- The Plot to Kill Hitler1990 · as Axel von dem Bussche
- A Handful of Dust1988 · as John Beaver
- Maurice1987 · as Alec Scudder
- A Room with a View1986 · as Freddy Honeychurch
- Puccini1984 · as Tonio
- St. Ursula's in Danger1983 · as Teddt
- Good and Bad at Games1983
- Mona1982 · as Jim Atkins
- What Destroyed the Hindenburg?— · as Self - Narrator
- Seacole— · as Major Harvey
- Security—
All TV Shows (47)
- Missed Call2026
- The Burning Girls2023 · as Simon Harper
- The Reunion2022 · as Richard Degalais
- Surface2022 · as Henry Huntley
- McDonald & Dodds2020 · as Gordon Elmwood
- The War of the Worlds2019 · as Frederick
- Krypton2018 · as Ter-El
- Riviera2017 · as Gabriel Hirsch
- The Family2016 · as John Warren
- The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells2016 · as Haply
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family2015 · as Nicholas Whiteley
- 12 Monkeys2015 · as Sebastian
- Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down2014 · as Dragutin
- The Crimson Field2014 · as Major Edward Crecy
- The White Queen2013 · as Thomas Stanley
- Secret State2012 · as Felix Durrell
- Speed Kills2012 · as Self - Narrator
- Putin, Russia and the West2012 · as Narrator
- Death in Paradise2011 · as James Lavender
- Scott & Bailey2011 · as Nick Savage
- Case Sensitive2011 · as Mark Bretherick
- Sherlock2010 · as DI Greg Lestrade
- Garrow's Law2009 · as Sir Arthur Hill
- Law & Order: UK2009
- Wallander2008
- Midnight Man2008 · as Daniel Cosgrave
- Son of the Dragon2008 · as Prince of the North
- Ashes to Ashes2008 · as Danny Moore
- Lewis2007 · as Alec Pickman
- Doctor Who2005 · as Riddell
- Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Lance Fortescue
- This World2004
- New Tricks2004 · as Adrian Levene
- Charles II: The Power and The Passion2003 · as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
- Spooks2002 · as William Sampson
- The Forsyte Saga2002 · as Young Jolyon Forsyte
- The Forsyte Saga2002 · as Jolyon Forsyte Jr
- Waking the Dead2001 · as Colonel John Garrett
- Take a Girl Like You2000 · as Patrick Standish
- Cleopatra1999 · as Octavian
- The Blonde Bombshell1999 · as Dennis Hamilton
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall1996 · as Arthur Huntingdon
- Harry1993 · as Dominic Collier
- Fortunes of War1987 · as Simon Boulderstone
- Inspector Morse1987 · as Billy
- Vice Versa1981 · as Tipping
- Return of the Saint1978 · as Prefect