Rupert Graves
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...Read More
Known For
Acting Career
- 2025
Verona's Romeo & Juliet
As: Prince Escalaus
- 2023
The Burning Girls
As: Simon Harper
- 2023
Wolves of War
As: Professor Hopper
- 2022
The Reunion
As: Richard Degalais
- 2022
Dalíland
As: Captain Moore
- 2021
Smyrna
As: George Horton
- 2020
McDonald & Dodds
As: Gordon Elmwood
- 2020
Emma.
As: Mr. Weston
- 2019
The War of the Worlds
As: Frederick
- 2019
A Working Mom's Nightmare
As: Eddie
- 2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
As: Narrator (voice)
- 2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
As: Paulinus
- 2018
Silencio
As: Peter
- 2018
Swimming with Men
As: Luke
- 2018
Krypton
As: Ter-El
- 2018
Native
As: Cane
- 2017
Riviera
As: Gabriel Hirsch
- 2016
Sacrifice
As: Duncan Guthrie
- 2016
The Family
As: John Warren
- 2016
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
As: Haply
- 2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
As: DI Lestrade
- 2015
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
As: Nicholas Whiteley
- 2015
Bone in the Throat
As: Rupert
- 2015
12 Monkeys
As: Sebastian
- 2014
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
As: Dragutin
- 2014
The Crimson Field
As: Maj Edward Crecy
- 2014
Salting the Battlefield
As: Stirling Rogers
- 2014
Turks & Caicos
As: Stirling Rogers
- 2014
Sherlock: His Last Vow
As: DI Lestrade
- 2013
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
As: Greg Lestrade
- 2013
The White Queen
As: Thomas Stanley
- 2013
Ultimate Tutankhamun
As: Narrator (voice)
- 2012
Secret State
As: Felix Durrell
- 2012
Fast Girls
As: David Temple
- 2012
Underwater Okavango
As: Narrator (voice)
- 2012
Putin, Russia and the West
As: Narrator
- 2011
Death in Paradise
As: James Lavender
- 2011
Scott & Bailey
As: Nick Savage
- 2011
Case Sensitive
As: Mark Bretherick
- 2010
Made in Dagenham
As: Peter Hopkins
- 2010
Sherlock
As: DI Greg Lestrade
- 2009
Garrow's Law
As: Sir Arthur Hill
- 2008
God on Trial
As: Mordechai
- 2008
Midnight Man
As: Daniel Cosgrave
- 2008
Son of the Dragon
As: Prince of the North
- 2008
Ashes to Ashes
As: Danny Moore
- 2007
The Dinner Party
As: Roger
- 2007
The Waiting Room
As: George
- 2007
Death at a Funeral
As: Robert
- 2007
Clapham Junction
As: Robin Cape
- 2007
Intervention
As: Mark
- 2006
V for Vendetta
As: Dominic
- 2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
As: William Shakespeare
- 2005
ShakespeaRe-Told
As: Shakespeare
- 2005
Rag Tale
As: Eddy Taylor
- 2005
Doctor Who
As: Riddell
- 2004
Pride
As: Linus (voice)
- 2004
New Tricks
As: Adrian Levene
- 2003
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
As: George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
- 2002
Extreme Ops
As: Jeffrey
- 2002
Spooks
As: William Sampson
- 2002
The Forsyte Saga
As: Young Jolyon Forsyte
- 2001
Room to Rent
As: Mark
- 2001
Waking the Dead
As: Colonel John Garrett
- 2000
Take a Girl Like You
As: Patrick Standish
- 1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
As: Joseph Lees
- 1999
All My Loved Ones
As: Nicholas Winton
- 1999
Cleopatra
As: Octavian
- 1999
The Blonde Bombshell
As: Dennis Hamilton
- 1998
The Revengers' Comedies
As: Oliver Knightly
- 1997
Bent
As: Officer on Train
- 1997
Mrs. Dalloway
As: Septimus Warren Smith
- 1996
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
As: Arthur Huntington
- 1996
Intimate Relations
As: Harold
- 1996
Different for Girls
As: Paul Prentice
- 1996
The Innocent Sleep
As: Alan Terry
- 1994
The Madness of King George
As: Greville
- 1994
Open Fire
As: David Martin
- 1994
Doomsday Gun
As: Jones
- 1993
Royal Celebration
As: Neil
- 1993
Harry
As: Dominic Collier
- 1992
Damage
As: Martyn Fleming
- 1991
Where Angels Fear to Tread
As: Philip Herriton
- 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
As: Simon Boulderstone
- 1987
Maurice
As: Alec Scudder
- 1987
Inspector Morse
As: Billy
- 1986
A Room with a View
As: Freddy Honeychurch
- 1984
Puccini
As: Tonio
- 1982
Mona
As: Jim Atkins
- 1978
Return of the Saint
As: Prefect