
Rupert Graves
Department: Acting
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).
Known For

The Revengers' Comedies
1998

V for Vendetta
2006

Death at a Funeral
2007

Doomsday Gun
1994

Damage
1992

A Room with a View
1986

The Madness of King George
1994

God on Trial
2008

The Waiting Room
2007

Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013

Maurice
1987

A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019

Extreme Ops
2002

Royal Celebration
1993

A Handful of Dust
1988

Mrs. Dalloway
1997

Mona
1982

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013

Intimate Relations
1996

The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009

What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
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Puccini
1984

Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991

Rag Tale
2005

Different for Girls
1996

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999

Seacole
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Fast Girls
2012

All My Loved Ones
1999

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005

To Be First
2007

The Innocent Sleep
1996

Turks & Caicos
2014

Salting the Battlefield
2014

Merchant Ivory
2024

Seven Ages of Starlight
2012

Bone in the Throat
2015

The Sheltering Desert
1991

Clapham Junction
2007

Native
2018

Good and Bad at Games
1983

Una questione privata
1993

Predator Coast
2012

Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019

Underwater Okavango
2012

Smyrna
2021

The Dinner Party
2007

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016

Room to Rent
2001

Juliet & Romeo
2025

Sacrifice
2016

Open Fire
1994

The Children
1990

The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990

Pride
2004

St. Ursula's in Danger
1983

Made in Dagenham
2010

Intervention
2007

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016

Swimming with Men
2018

Bent
1997

Silencio
2018

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019

Emma.
2020

Special Couple
2019

Dalíland
2022

Wolves of War
2023

The Break
2025

Security
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Death in Paradise
2011

Inspector Morse
1987

Spooks
2002

Law & Order: UK
2009

Wallander
2008

The Forsyte Saga
2002

Sherlock
2010

Take a Girl Like You
2000

Riviera
2017

Garrow's Law
2009

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996

Scott & Bailey
2011

Case Sensitive
2011

Doctor Who
2005

Midnight Man
2008

Secret State
2012

Cleopatra
1999

The White Queen
2013

The Family
2016

New Tricks
2004

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016

Waking the Dead
2001

The Burning Girls
2023

12 Monkeys
2015

McDonald & Dodds
2020

Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015

Son of the Dragon
2008

This World
2004

Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2014

The Blonde Bombshell
1999

The Reunion
2022

Krypton
2018

The War of the Worlds
2019

Putin, Russia and the West
2012

Ashes to Ashes
2008

Return of the Saint
1978

Surface
2022

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

Missed Call
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Vice Versa
1981

Fortunes of War
1987

Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003

Harry
1993

The Crimson Field
2014

The Forsyte Saga
2002

Speed Kills
2012