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Rupert Graves

Actor, Director, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn June 30, 1963 (62 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The War of the Worlds
  • Bent
  • Sacrifice
  • Cleopatra
  • Fast Girls
  • A Handful of Dust
  • All My Loved Ones
  • Rag Tale
  • Intervention
  • A Working Mom's Nightmare

Known For

  • Sherlock
  • V for Vendetta
  • Death at a Funeral
  • Maurice
  • Emma.
  • Damage
  • The Madness of King George
  • Clapham Junction
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • The War of the Worlds
  • Sacrifice
  • Swimming with Men
  • Different for Girls
  • The Family (2016)
  • The Forsyte Saga (2002)
  • Extreme Ops

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2025
    Washington Black (TV Series) · as Mr. Goff
    2025
    Juliet & Romeo · as Prince Escalaus
    2023
    The Burning Girls (TV Series) · as Simon Harper
    2022
    The Reunion (2022) (TV Series) · as Richard Degalais
    2022
    Daliland · as Captain Moore
    2022
    Wolves of War · as Professor Hopper
    2022
    Surface (2022) (TV Series)
    2021
    Smyrna · as George Horton
    2020
    McDonald & Dodds (TV Series) · as Gordon Elmwood
    2020
    Emma. · as Mr. Weston
    2019
    The War of the Worlds (TV Series) · as Frederick
    2019
    2019
    Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings · as Narrator (voice)
    2019
    2019
    2018
    Silencio · as Peter
    2018
    2018
    Krypton (TV Series) · as Ter-El
    2017
    Riviera (TV Series) · as Gabriel Hirsch
    2016
    Native · as Cane
    2016
    Sacrifice · as Duncan Guthrie
    2016
    The Family (2016) (TV Series) · as John Warren
    2016
    The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells (TV Series) · as Haply
    2016
    2015
    Valentine's Kiss (TV Series) · as Nicholas Whiteley
    2015
    Bone in the Throat · as Rupert
    2015
    12 Monkeys (TV Series) · as Sebastian
    2014
    The Crimson Field (TV Series) · as Maj Edward Crecy
    2014
    Salting the Battlefield · as Stirling Rogers
    2014
    Turks & Caicos · as Stirling Rogers
    2013
    Sherlock: Many Happy Returns · as Greg Lestrade
    2013
    The White Queen (TV Series) · as Thomas Stanley
    2013
    Aliens: The Definitive Guide (TV Series) · as Narrator
    2013
    Air Force One is Down (TV Series) · as Dragutin
    2012
    Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series) · as Gary
    2012
    Secret State (TV Series) · as Felix Durrell
    2012
    2012
    Seven Ages Of Starlight (TV Series) · as Narrator
    2012
    Speed Kills (TV Series) · as Narrator
    2012
    Fast Girls · as David Temple
    2012
    Underwater Okavango · as Narrator (voice)
    2012
    The Hunt for Bin Laden · as Narrator (uk)
    2012
    Sherlock Uncovered · as Di Lestrade
    2012
    2011
    Putin, Russia and the West (TV Series) · as Narrator
    2011
    Death in Paradise (TV Series) · as James Lavender
    2011
    Scott & Bailey (TV Series) · as Nick Savage
    2011
    Case Sensitive (TV Series) · as Mark Bretherick
    2010
    Single Father (TV Series) · as Stuart
    2010
    Made in Dagenham · as Peter Hopkins
    2010
    Sherlock (TV Series) · as Di Greg Lestrade
    2009
    Garrow's Law - Tales from the Old Bailey (TV Series) · as Sir Arthur Hill
    2009
    2009
    Law & Order: UK (TV Series)
    2008
    Wallander (UK) (TV Series)
    2008
    God on Trial · as Mordechai
    2008
    Midnight Man (TV Series) · as Daniel Cosgrave
    2008
    Ashes to Ashes (TV Series) · as Danny Moore
    2007
    The Dinner Party · as Roger
    2007
    The Waiting Room · as George
    2007
    Clapham Junction · as Robin Cape
    2007
    Death at a Funeral · as Robert
    2007
    2006
    Son of the Dragon (TV Series) · as Prince Of The North
    2006
    Lewis (TV Series) · as Alec Pickman
    2005
    V for Vendetta · as Dominic
    2005
    2005
    Rag Tale · as Eddy Taylor
    2005
    Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Riddell
    2004
    Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Lance Fortescue
    2004
    Retrosexual: The '80s (TV Series) · as Cast
    2004
    Pride · as Linus (voice)
    2004
    This World (TV Series)
    2004
    Doc Martin (TV Series) · as Arthur Collins
    2003
    Charles II: The Power and the Passion (TV Series) · as George Villiers, Duke Of Buckingham
    2003
    New Tricks (TV Series) · as Adrian Levene
    2002
    Extreme Ops · as Jeffrey
    2002
    Spooks (TV Series) · as William Sampson
    2002
    The Forsyte Saga (2002) (TV Series) · as Young Jolyon Forsyte
    2000
    Room to Rent · as Mark
    2000
    Take a Girl Like You (TV Series) · as Patrick Standish
    2000
    Waking the Dead (TV Series) · as Colonel John Garrett
    1999
    Dreaming of Joseph Lees · as Joseph Lees
    1999
    All My Loved Ones · as Nicholas Winton
    1999
    Cleopatra (TV Series) · as Octavian
    1999
    The Blonde Bombshell (TV Series) · as Dennis Hamilton
    1998
    The Revengers' Comedies · as Oliver Knightly
    1997
    Bent · as Officer On Train
    1997
    Mrs Dalloway · as Septimus Warren Smith
    1996
    Different for Girls · as Paul Prentice
    1996
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (TV Series) · as Arthur Huntington
    1996
    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (TV Series) · as British Soldier
    1996
    Intimate Relations · as Harold
    1995
    The Innocent Sleep · as Alan Terry
    1994
    1994
    Open Fire · as David Martin
    1994
    Doomsday Gun · as Jones
    1993
    Rosamunde Pilcher (TV Series) · as Nicholas Whiteley
    1993
    1993
    Harry (1993) (TV Series) · as Dominic Collier
    1992
    Damage · as Martyn Fleming
    1991
    Secret History (TV Series) · as Narrator
    1991
    Where Angels Fear to Tread · as Philip Herriton
    1991
    1990
    The Children · as Gerald Ormerod
    1990
    The Plot to Kill Hitler · as Axel Von Dem Bussche
    1988
    A Handful of Dust · as John Beaver
    1987
    Fortunes of War (TV Series) · as Simon Boulderstone
    1987
    Maurice · as Alec Scudder
    1987
    Inspector Morse (TV Series) · as Billy
    1985
    Screen One (TV Series) · as Neil
    1985
    A Room with a View · as Freddy Honeychurch
    1984
    Puccini · as Tonio
    1983
    1982
    Nature (TV Series) · as Narrator
    1981
    Vice Versa (TV Series) · as Tipping
    1978
    Return of the Saint (TV Series) · as Prefect
    1978
    The Famous Five (TV Series) · as Yan
    Seacole · as Major Harvey

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