Rupert Graves
Actor
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).
As Director
Filmography
V for Vendetta
as Dominic 2006
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as DI Lestrade 2016
Emma.
as Mr. Weston 2020
Death at a Funeral
as Robert 2007
A Room with a View
as Freddy Honeychurch 1986
Damage
as Martyn Fleming 1992
Maurice
as Alec Scudder 1987
Made in Dagenham
as Peter Hopkins 2010
The Madness of King George
as Greville 1994
Sacrifice
as Duncan Guthrie 2016
Turks & Caicos
as Stirling Rogers 2014
Bent
as Officer on Train 1997
Salting the Battlefield
as Stirling Rogers 2014
Fast Girls
as David Temple 2012
Extreme Ops
as Jeffrey 2002
Swimming with Men
as Luke 2018
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Paulinus 2019