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