Rupert Graves
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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
Credits
Damage (1992)
as Martyn Fleming
V for Vendetta (2006)
as Dominic
Emma. (2020)
as Mr. Weston
A Room with a View (1986)
as Freddy Honeychurch
Death at a Funeral (2007)
as Robert
Maurice (1987)
as Alec Scudder
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
as DI Lestrade
Juliet & Romeo (2025)
as Prince Escalaus
Dalíland (2022)
as Captain Moore
The Madness of King George (1994)
as Greville
Turks & Caicos (2014)
as Stirling Rogers
Made in Dagenham (2010)
as Peter Hopkins
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans (2019)
as Paulinus
Fast Girls (2012)
as David Temple
Extreme Ops (2002)
as Jeffrey
Doomsday Gun (1994)
as Jones
Bent (1997)
as Officer on Train
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
as Septimus Warren Smith
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
as Stirling Rogers
The Sheltering Desert (1991)
Actor
God on Trial (2008)
as Mordechai
Merchant Ivory (2024)
as Self
The Children (1990)
as Gerald Ormerod
Different for Girls (1996)
as Paul Prentice
Rag Tale (2005)
as Eddy Taylor
Swimming with Men (2018)
as Luke
A Handful of Dust (1988)
as John Beaver
Silencio (2018)
as Peter
Clapham Junction (2007)
as Robin Cape
Pride (2004)
as Linus (voice)
Intimate Relations (1996)
as Harold
Wolves of War (2023)
as Professor Hopper
Open Fire (1994)
as David Martin
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
as Joseph Lees
The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
as Oliver Knightly
Sacrifice (2016)
as Duncan Guthrie
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
as Philip Herriton
Special Couple (2019)
Actor
Intervention (2007)
as Mark
Bone in the Throat (2015)
as Rupert
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005)
as William Shakespeare
Room to Rent (2001)
as Mark
Smyrna (2021)
as George Horton
All My Loved Ones (1999)
as Nicholas Winton
To Be First (2007)
Actor
A Working Mom's Nightmare (2019)
as Eddie
Royal Celebration (1993)
as Neil
The Dinner Party (2007)
as Roger
The Waiting Room (2007)
as George
Seacole (—)
as Major Harvey
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns (2013)
as Greg Lestrade
The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)
as Axel von dem Bussche
Puccini (1984)
as Tonio
Seven Ages of Starlight (2012)
Actor
The Innocent Sleep (1996)
as Alan Terry
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock (2016)
as Himself
Predator Coast (2012)
Actor
Mona (1982)
as Jim Atkins
The Good Times Are Killing Me (2009)
as Lexy
Ultimate Tutankhamun (2013)
as Narrator (voice)
Una questione privata (1993)
as Milton
Good and Bad at Games (1983)
Actor
St. Ursula's in Danger (1983)
as Teddt
Native (2018)
as Cane
The Break (2025)
as Ben's Friend
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings (2019)
as Narrator (voice)
Underwater Okavango (2012)
as Narrator (voice)
What Destroyed the Hindenburg? (—)
as Self - Narrator
Security (—)
Actor