Rupert Graves

Rupert Graves

60 · Born: Jun 30, 1963

Personal Details

Born Jun 30, 1963 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Parents
  • Richard Harding Graves
  • Mary Lucilla 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). Description above is from the Wikipedia article Rupert Graves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Career

2023
The Burning Girls
The Burning Girls as Simon Harper
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2022
Wolves of War
Wolves of War as Professor Hopper
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Daliland
Daliland as Captain Moore
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2021
McDonald & Dodds
McDonald & Dodds as Gordon Elmwood
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2020
Emma.
Emma. as Mr. Weston
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Riviera
Riviera as Gabriel Hirsch
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2019
A Working Mom's Nightmare
A Working Mom's Nightmare as Eddie
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Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings as Narrator (voice)
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Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds as Frederick
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2018
Swimming with Men
Swimming with Men as Luke
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Native
Native as Cane
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Silencio
Silencio as Peter
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2017
12 Monkeys
12 Monkeys as Sebastian
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2016
Sacrifice
Sacrifice as Duncan Guthrie
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Sherlock
Sherlock as DI Lestrade
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The Family
The Family as John Warren
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2015
Bone in the Throat
Bone in the Throat as Rupert
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Valentine's Kiss
Valentine's Kiss as Nicholas Whiteley
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2014
Salting the Battlefield
Salting the Battlefield as Stirling Rogers
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Turks & Caicos
Turks & Caicos as Stirling Rogers
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The Crimson Field
The Crimson Field
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Air Force One Is Down
Air Force One Is Down as Dragutin
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2013
Sherlock
Sherlock as Greg Lestrade
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The White Queen
The White Queen as Thomas Stanley
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2012
Predator Coast
Predator Coast
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Seven Ages of Starlight
Fast Girls
Fast Girls as David Temple
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Secret State
Secret State as Felix Durrell
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Putin, Russia and the West
Putin, Russia and the West as Narrator
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who as Riddell
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This World
This World
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2011
Scott & Bailey
Scott & Bailey as Nick Savage
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Death in Paradise
Death in Paradise as James Lavender
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Case Sensitive
Case Sensitive as Mark Bretherick
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2010
Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham as Peter Hopkins
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Sherlock
Sherlock as DI Greg Lestrade
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Law & Order: UK
Law & Order: UK
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New Tricks
New Tricks as Adrian Levene
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2009
The Good Times Are Killing Me
The Good Times Are Killing Me as Lexy
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Garrow's Law
Garrow's Law as Sir Arthur Hill
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2008
God on Trial
God on Trial as Mordechai
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Midnight Man
Midnight Man as Daniel Cosgrave
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Son of the Dragon
Son of the Dragon as Prince of the North
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2007
The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room as George
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Intervention
Intervention as Mark
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Death at a Funeral
Death at a Funeral as Robert
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Clapham Junction
Clapham Junction as Robin Cape
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The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party as Roger
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2006
V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta as Dominic Stone
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2005
Rag Tale
Rag Tale as Eddy Taylor
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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Spooks
Spooks as William Sampson
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2004
Pride
Pride as Linus (voice)
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2003
The Last King
The Last King
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2002
Extreme Ops
Extreme Ops as Jeffrey
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The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga as Young Jolyon Forsyte
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2001
Room to Rent
Room to Rent as Mark
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2000
Take a Girl Like You
Take a Girl Like You as Patrick Standish
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Take a Girl Like You
Take a Girl Like You as Patrick Standish
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1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Joseph Lees
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All My Loved Ones
All My Loved Ones as Nicholas Winton
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Cleopatra
Cleopatra as Octavian
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The Blonde Bombshell
The Blonde Bombshell as Dennis Hamilton
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1998
The Revengers' Comedies
The Revengers' Comedies as Oliver Knightly
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1997
Bent
Bent as Officer on Train
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1996
The Innocent Sleep
The Innocent Sleep as Alan Terry
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Different for Girls
Different for Girls as Paul Prentice
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Intimate Relations
Intimate Relations as Harold
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Arthur Huntington
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1994
Doomsday Gun
Doomsday Gun as Jones
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The Madness of King George
The Madness of King George as Greville
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1993
Screen One
Screen One as Neil
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1992
Damage
Damage as Martyn Fleming
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1991
The Sheltering Desert
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread as Philip Herriton
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1990
The Children
The Children as Gerald Ormerod
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
The Plot to Kill Hitler as Axel von dem Bussche
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1988
A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust as John Beaver
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1987
Maurice
Maurice as Alec Scudder
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Fortunes of War
Fortunes of War as Simon Boulderstone
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1986
A Room with a View
A Room with a View as Freddy Honeychurch
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1984
Puccini
Puccini as Tonio
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1983
Good and Bad at Games
2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2012