Rupert Graves
Acting • Born 1963-06-30
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).
Filmography
114 credits
The Revengers' Comedies
Movie • 1998
Oliver Knightly
V for Vendetta
Movie • 2006
Dominic
Death at a Funeral
Movie • 2007
Robert
Doomsday Gun
Movie • 1994
Jones
Damage
Movie • 1992
Martyn Fleming
A Room with a View
Movie • 1986
Freddy Honeychurch
The Madness of King George
Movie • 1994
Greville
God on Trial
Movie • 2008
Mordechai
The Waiting Room
Movie • 2007
George
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Maurice
Movie • 1987
Alec Scudder
A Working Mom's Nightmare
Movie • 2019
Eddie
Extreme Ops
Movie • 2002
Jeffrey
Royal Celebration
Movie • 1993
Neil
A Handful of Dust
Movie • 1988
John Beaver
Mrs. Dalloway
Movie • 1997
Septimus Warren Smith
Mona
Movie • 1982
Jim Atkins
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Movie • 2013
Greg Lestrade
Intimate Relations
Movie • 1996
Harold
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Movie • 2009
Lexy
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Movie
Self - Narrator
Puccini
Movie • 1984
Tonio
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Movie • 1991
Philip Herriton
Rag Tale
Movie • 2005
Eddy Taylor
Different for Girls
Movie • 1996
Paul Prentice
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Movie • 1999
Joseph Lees
Seacole
Movie
Major Harvey
Fast Girls
Movie • 2012
David Temple
All My Loved Ones
Movie • 1999
Nicholas Winton
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Movie • 2005
William Shakespeare
To Be First
Movie • 2007
The Innocent Sleep
Movie • 1996
Alan Terry
Turks & Caicos
Movie • 2014
Stirling Rogers
Salting the Battlefield
Movie • 2014
Stirling Rogers
Merchant Ivory
Movie • 2024
Self
Seven Ages of Starlight
Movie • 2012
Bone in the Throat
Movie • 2015
Rupert
The Sheltering Desert
Movie • 1991
Clapham Junction
Movie • 2007
Robin Cape
Native
Movie • 2018
Cane
Good and Bad at Games
Movie • 1983
Una questione privata
Movie • 1993
Milton
Predator Coast
Movie • 2012
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Underwater Okavango
Movie • 2012
Narrator (voice)
Smyrna
Movie • 2021
George Horton
The Dinner Party
Movie • 2007
Roger
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Movie • 2016
DI Lestrade
Room to Rent
Movie • 2001
Mark
Juliet & Romeo
Movie • 2025
Prince Escalaus
Sacrifice
Movie • 2016
Duncan Guthrie
Open Fire
Movie • 1994
David Martin
The Children
Movie • 1990
Gerald Ormerod
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Movie • 1990
Axel von dem Bussche
Pride
Movie • 2004
Linus (voice)
St. Ursula's in Danger
Movie • 1983
Teddt
Made in Dagenham
Movie • 2010
Peter Hopkins
Intervention
Movie • 2007
Mark
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Movie • 2016
Himself
Swimming with Men
Movie • 2018
Luke
Bent
Movie • 1997
Officer on Train
Silencio
Movie • 2018
Peter
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Movie • 2019
Paulinus
Emma.
Movie • 2020
Mr. Weston
Special Couple
Movie • 2019
Dalíland
Movie • 2022
Captain Moore
Wolves of War
Movie • 2023
Professor Hopper
The Break
Movie • 2025
Ben's Friend
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
James Lavender
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Billy
Spooks
TV • 2002
William Sampson
Law & Order: UK
TV • 2009
Wallander
TV • 2008
The Forsyte Saga
TV • 2002
Young Jolyon Forsyte
Sherlock
TV • 2010
DI Greg Lestrade
Take a Girl Like You
TV • 2000
Patrick Standish
Riviera
TV • 2017
Gabriel Hirsch
Garrow's Law
TV • 2009
Sir Arthur Hill
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
TV • 1996
Arthur Huntingdon
Scott & Bailey
TV • 2011
Nick Savage
Case Sensitive
TV • 2011
Mark Bretherick
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Riddell
Midnight Man
TV • 2008
Daniel Cosgrave
Secret State
TV • 2012
Felix Durrell
Cleopatra
TV • 1999
Octavian
The White Queen
TV • 2013
Thomas Stanley
The Family
TV • 2016
John Warren
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Adrian Levene
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
TV • 2016
Haply
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Colonel John Garrett
The Burning Girls
TV • 2023
Simon Harper
12 Monkeys
TV • 2015
Sebastian
McDonald & Dodds
TV • 2020
Gordon Elmwood
Son of the Dragon
TV • 2008
Prince of the North
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
TV • 2015
Nicholas Whiteley
This World
TV • 2004
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
TV • 2014
Dragutin
The Blonde Bombshell
TV • 1999
Dennis Hamilton
The Reunion
TV • 2022
Richard Degalais
Krypton
TV • 2018
Ter-El
The War of the Worlds
TV • 2019
Frederick
Putin, Russia and the West
TV • 2012
Narrator
Ashes to Ashes
TV • 2008
Danny Moore
Return of the Saint
TV • 1978
Prefect
Surface
TV • 2022
Henry Huntley
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Lance Fortescue
Missed Call
TV
Vice Versa
TV • 1981
Tipping
Fortunes of War
TV • 1987
Simon Boulderstone
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
TV • 2003
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Harry
TV • 1993
Dominic Collier
The Crimson Field
TV • 2014
Major Edward Crecy
The Forsyte Saga
TV • 2002
Jolyon Forsyte Jr
Speed Kills
TV • 2012
Self - Narrator