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