Rupert Graves
Known for Acting · 114 credits
- Born
- 1963-06-30 (age 62)
- Place of birth
- Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
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
TV Shows (45)
Doctor Who
2005
as Riddell
Death in Paradise
2011
as James Lavender
Sherlock
2010
as DI Greg Lestrade
Spooks
2002
as William Sampson
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Lance Fortescue
Waking the Dead
2001
as Colonel John Garrett
New Tricks
2004
as Adrian Levene
Inspector Morse
1987
as Billy
12 Monkeys
2015
as Sebastian
Krypton
2018
as Ter-El
Law & Order: UK
2009
Wallander
2008
Return of the Saint
1978
as Prefect
Riviera
2017
as Gabriel Hirsch
Surface
2022
as Henry Huntley
Ashes to Ashes
2008
as Danny Moore
McDonald & Dodds
2020
as Gordon Elmwood
The White Queen
2013
as Thomas Stanley
Scott & Bailey
2011
as Nick Savage
The Forsyte Saga
2002
as Young Jolyon Forsyte / Jolyon Forsyte Jr
This World
2004
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Garrow's Law
2009
as Sir Arthur Hill
Harry
1993
as Dominic Collier
Cleopatra
1999
as Octavian
The War of the Worlds
2019
as Frederick
The Crimson Field
2014
as Major Edward Crecy
The Family
2016
as John Warren
Secret State
2012
as Felix Durrell
Fortunes of War
1987
as Simon Boulderstone
The Burning Girls
2023
as Simon Harper
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
as Arthur Huntingdon
Case Sensitive
2011
as Mark Bretherick
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2014
as Dragutin
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
as Haply
The Reunion
2022
as Richard Degalais
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015
as Nicholas Whiteley
Putin, Russia and the West
2012
as Narrator
Midnight Man
2008
as Daniel Cosgrave
Son of the Dragon
2008
as Prince of the North
Take a Girl Like You
2000
as Patrick Standish
Missed Call
2026
Vice Versa
1981
as Tipping
The Blonde Bombshell
1999
as Dennis Hamilton
Speed Kills
2012
as Self - Narrator
Movies (69)
Damage
1992
as Martyn Fleming
V for Vendetta
2006
as Dominic
Emma.
2020
as Mr. Weston
A Room with a View
1986
as Freddy Honeychurch
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
as DI Lestrade
Death at a Funeral
2007
as Robert
Maurice
1987
as Alec Scudder
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
as Paulinus
Pride
2004
as Linus (voice)
Bent
1997
as Officer on Train
Made in Dagenham
2010
as Peter Hopkins
The Madness of King George
1994
as Greville
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Stirling Rogers
Sacrifice
2016
as Duncan Guthrie
Juliet & Romeo
2025
as Prince Escalaus
Turks & Caicos
2014
as Stirling Rogers
Dalíland
2022
as Captain Moore
Fast Girls
2012
as David Temple
A Handful of Dust
1988
as John Beaver
Silencio
2018
as Peter
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Septimus Warren Smith
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
as William Shakespeare
Extreme Ops
2002
as Jeffrey
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Philip Herriton
Clapham Junction
2007
as Robin Cape
Intimate Relations
1996
as Harold
Intervention
2007
as Mark
Swimming with Men
2018
as Luke
The Revengers' Comedies
1998
as Oliver Knightly
Different for Girls
1996
as Paul Prentice
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
Special Couple
2019
Open Fire
1994
as David Martin
Wolves of War
2023
as Professor Hopper
Bone in the Throat
2015
as Rupert
God on Trial
2008
as Mordechai
Doomsday Gun
1994
as Jones
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
as Joseph Lees
The Children
1990
as Gerald Ormerod
The Innocent Sleep
1996
as Alan Terry
The Dinner Party
2007
as Roger
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
as Axel von dem Bussche
All My Loved Ones
1999
as Nicholas Winton
Smyrna
2021
as George Horton
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
as Lexy
Seacole
as Major Harvey
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013
as Greg Lestrade
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
as Himself
Room to Rent
2001
as Mark
Rag Tale
2005
as Eddy Taylor
Predator Coast
2012
The Waiting Room
2007
as George
Royal Celebration
1993
as Neil
Puccini
1984
as Tonio
The Sheltering Desert
1991
Good and Bad at Games
1983
A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019
as Eddie
To Be First
2007
Una questione privata
1993
as Milton
Native
2018
as Cane
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012
Mona
1982
as Jim Atkins
Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Security
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983
as Teddt
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
as Self - Narrator
The Break
2025
as Ben's Friend
Underwater Okavango
2012
as Narrator (voice)
About Rupert Graves
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), Diff… With 114 credits spanning from 1978 to 2026, Rupert Graves has appeared in 69 films and 45 TV shows.
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Most Popular Rupert Graves Movies
- Damage (1992) — as Martyn Fleming
- V for Vendetta (2006) — as Dominic
- Emma. (2020) — as Mr. Weston
- A Room with a View (1986) — as Freddy Honeychurch
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016) — as DI Lestrade
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