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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
The Break
Character:Ben's Friend
Release Date:04/10/2025
Juliet & Romeo
Character:Prince Escalaus
Release Date:09/05/2025
Kung Fu Kenzo
Character:Robert Wall
Release Date:26/04/2025
Merchant Ivory
Character:Self
Release Date:30/08/2024
Wolves of War
Character:Professor Hopper
Release Date:26/01/2023
Dalíland
Character:Captain Moore
Release Date:29/09/2022
Smyrna
Character:George Horton
Release Date:23/12/2021
Emma.
Character:Mr. Weston
Release Date:13/02/2020
A Working Mom's Nightmare
Character:Eddie
Release Date:03/10/2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/08/2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Character:Paulinus
Release Date:26/07/2019
Special Couple
Character:
Release Date:19/06/2019
Silencio
Character:Peter
Release Date:26/10/2018
Swimming with Men
Character:Luke
Release Date:06/07/2018
Native
Character:Cane
Release Date:23/02/2018
Sacrifice
Character:Duncan Guthrie
Release Date:29/04/2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Character:Himself
Release Date:11/01/2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Character:DI Lestrade
Release Date:01/01/2016
Bone in the Throat
Character:Rupert
Release Date:16/03/2015
Salting the Battlefield
Character:Stirling Rogers
Release Date:27/03/2014
Turks & Caicos
Character:Stirling Rogers
Release Date:20/03/2014
Sherlock: His Last Vow
Character:
Release Date:12/01/2014
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Character:Greg Lestrade
Release Date:24/12/2013
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:10/02/2013
Seven Ages of Starlight
Character:
Release Date:25/10/2012
Fast Girls
Character:David Temple
Release Date:15/06/2012
Underwater Okavango
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/06/2012
Predator Coast
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2012
Made in Dagenham
Character:Peter Hopkins
Release Date:01/10/2010
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Character:Lexy
Release Date:13/09/2009
God on Trial
Character:Mordechai
Release Date:03/09/2008
The Dinner Party
Character:Roger
Release Date:09/09/2007
The Waiting Room
Character:George
Release Date:18/08/2007
Death at a Funeral
Character:Robert
Release Date:17/08/2007
To Be First
Character:
Release Date:12/08/2007
Clapham Junction
Character:Robin Cape
Release Date:22/07/2007
Intervention
Character:Mark
Release Date:01/01/2007
V for Vendetta
Character:Dominic
Release Date:23/02/2006
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Character:William Shakespeare
Release Date:22/11/2005
Rag Tale
Character:Eddy Taylor
Release Date:07/10/2005
Pride
Character:Linus (voice)
Release Date:21/06/2004
Extreme Ops
Character:Jeffrey
Release Date:27/11/2002
Room to Rent
Character:Mark
Release Date:22/06/2001
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Character:Joseph Lees
Release Date:29/10/1999
All My Loved Ones
Character:Nicholas Winton
Release Date:21/10/1999
The Revengers' Comedies
Character:Oliver Knightly
Release Date:09/06/1998
Bent
Character:Officer on Train
Release Date:26/11/1997
Mrs. Dalloway
Character:Septimus Warren Smith
Release Date:01/09/1997
Intimate Relations
Character:Harold
Release Date:01/10/1996
Different for Girls
Character:Paul Prentice
Release Date:01/10/1996
The Innocent Sleep
Character:Alan Terry
Release Date:25/01/1996
The Madness of King George
Character:Greville
Release Date:28/12/1994
Open Fire
Character:David Martin
Release Date:12/11/1994
Doomsday Gun
Character:Jones
Release Date:23/07/1994
Royal Celebration
Character:Neil
Release Date:26/09/1993
Una questione privata
Character:Milton
Release Date:16/07/1993
Damage
Character:Martyn Fleming
Release Date:02/12/1992
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Character:Philip Herriton
Release Date:21/06/1991
The Sheltering Desert
Character:
Release Date:01/02/1991
The Children
Character:Gerald Ormerod
Release Date:18/05/1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Character:Axel von dem Bussche
Release Date:30/01/1990
A Handful of Dust
Character:John Beaver
Release Date:24/06/1988
Maurice
Character:Alec Scudder
Release Date:18/09/1987
A Room with a View
Character:Freddy Honeychurch
Release Date:07/03/1986
Puccini
Character:Tonio
Release Date:01/01/1984
St. Ursula's in Danger
Character:Teddt
Release Date:20/12/1983
Good and Bad at Games
Character:
Release Date:18/12/1983
Mona
Character:Jim Atkins
Release Date:08/08/1982
Television Appearances
The Burning Girls
Character:Simon Harper
The Reunion
Character:Richard Degalais
Surface
Character:Henry Huntley
McDonald & Dodds
Character:Gordon Elmwood
The War of the Worlds
Character:Frederick
Krypton
Character:Ter-El
Riviera
Character:Gabriel Hirsch
The Family
Character:John Warren
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
Character:Haply
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
Character:Nicholas Whiteley
12 Monkeys
Character:Sebastian
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Character:Dragutin
The Crimson Field
Character:Major Edward Crecy
The White Queen
Character:Thomas Stanley
Secret State
Character:Felix Durrell
Putin, Russia and the West
Character:Narrator
Death in Paradise
Character:James Lavender
Scott & Bailey
Character:Nick Savage
Case Sensitive
Character:Mark Bretherick
Sherlock
Character:DI Greg Lestrade
Garrow's Law
Character:Sir Arthur Hill
Law & Order: UK
Character:
Wallander
Character:
Midnight Man
Character:Daniel Cosgrave
Son of the Dragon
Character:Prince of the North
Ashes to Ashes
Character:Danny Moore
Doctor Who
Character:Riddell
Agatha Christie's Marple
Character:Lance Fortescue
This World
Character:
New Tricks
Character:Adrian Levene
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Character:George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Spooks
Character:William Sampson
The Forsyte Saga
Character:Young Jolyon Forsyte
The Forsyte Saga
Character:Jolyon Forsyte Jr
Waking the Dead
Character:Colonel John Garrett
Take a Girl Like You
Character:Patrick Standish
Cleopatra
Character:Octavian
The Blonde Bombshell
Character:Dennis Hamilton
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Character:Arthur Huntingdon
Harry
Character:Dominic Collier
Fortunes of War
Character:Simon Boulderstone
Inspector Morse
Character:Billy
Vice Versa
Character:Tipping
Return of the Saint
Character:Prefect
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