Acting · Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK · Born June 30, 1963
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).
TVMissed Call
2026
MovieThe Break
2025
as Ben's Friend
MovieJuliet & Romeo
2025
as Prince Escalaus
MovieMerchant Ivory
2024
as Self
TVThe Burning Girls
2023
as Simon Harper
MovieWolves of War
2023
as Professor Hopper
TVThe Reunion
2022
as Richard Degalais
MovieDalíland
2022
as Captain Moore
TVSurface
2022
as Henry Huntley
MovieSmyrna
2021
as George Horton
TVMcDonald & Dodds
2020
as Gordon Elmwood
MovieEmma.
2020
as Mr. Weston
TVThe War of the Worlds
2019
as Frederick
MovieA Working Mom's Nightmare
2019
as Eddie
MovieLion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019
as Narrator (voice)
MovieHorrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
as Paulinus
MovieSpecial Couple
2019
MovieSilencio
2018
as Peter
MovieSwimming with Men
2018
as Luke
TVKrypton
2018
as Ter-El
MovieNative
2018
as Cane
TVRiviera
2017
as Gabriel Hirsch
MovieSacrifice
2016
as Duncan Guthrie
TVThe Family
2016
as John Warren
TVThe Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
as Haply
MovieMark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
as Himself
MovieSherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
as DI Lestrade
TVRosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015
as Nicholas Whiteley
MovieBone in the Throat
2015
as Rupert
TV12 Monkeys
2015
as Sebastian
TVAlistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2014
as Dragutin
TVThe Crimson Field
2014
as Major Edward Crecy
MovieSalting the Battlefield
2014
as Stirling Rogers
MovieTurks & Caicos
2014
as Stirling Rogers
MovieSherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013
as Greg Lestrade
TVThe White Queen
2013
as Thomas Stanley
MovieUltimate Tutankhamun
2013
as Narrator (voice)
TVSecret State
2012
as Felix Durrell
MovieSeven Ages of Starlight
2012
TVSpeed Kills
2012
as Self - Narrator
MovieFast Girls
2012
as David Temple
MovieUnderwater Okavango
2012
as Narrator (voice)
TVPutin, Russia and the West
2012
as Narrator
MoviePredator Coast
2012
TVDeath in Paradise
2011
as James Lavender
TVScott & Bailey
2011
as Nick Savage
TVCase Sensitive
2011
as Mark Bretherick
MovieMade in Dagenham
2010
as Peter Hopkins
TVSherlock
2010
as DI Greg Lestrade
TVGarrow's Law
2009
as Sir Arthur Hill
MovieThe Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
as Lexy
TVLaw & Order: UK
2009
TVWallander
2008
MovieGod on Trial
2008
as Mordechai
TVMidnight Man
2008
as Daniel Cosgrave
TVSon of the Dragon
2008
as Prince of the North
TVAshes to Ashes
2008
as Danny Moore
MovieThe Dinner Party
2007
as Roger
MovieThe Waiting Room
2007
as George
MovieDeath at a Funeral
2007
as Robert
To Be First
2007
MovieClapham Junction
2007
as Robin Cape
TVLewis
2007
as Alec Pickman
MovieIntervention
2007
as Mark
MovieV for Vendetta
2006
as Dominic
MovieA Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
as William Shakespeare
MovieRag Tale
2005
as Eddy Taylor
TVDoctor Who
2005
as Riddell
TVAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Lance Fortescue
MoviePride
2004
as Linus (voice)
TVThis World
2004
TVNew Tricks
2004
as Adrian Levene
TVCharles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
MovieExtreme Ops
2002
as Jeffrey
TVSpooks
2002
as William Sampson
TVThe Forsyte Saga
2002
as Young Jolyon Forsyte
MovieRoom to Rent
2001
as Mark
TVWaking the Dead
2001
as Colonel John Garrett
TVTake a Girl Like You
2000
as Patrick Standish
MovieDreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
as Joseph Lees
MovieAll My Loved Ones
1999
as Nicholas Winton
TVCleopatra
1999
as Octavian
TVThe Blonde Bombshell
1999
as Dennis Hamilton
MovieThe Revengers' Comedies
1998
as Oliver Knightly
MovieBent
1997
as Officer on Train
MovieMrs. Dalloway
1997
as Septimus Warren Smith
TVThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
as Arthur Huntingdon
MovieIntimate Relations
1996
as Harold
MovieDifferent for Girls
1996
as Paul Prentice
MovieThe Innocent Sleep
1996
as Alan Terry
MovieThe Madness of King George
1994
as Greville
MovieOpen Fire
1994
as David Martin
MovieDoomsday Gun
1994
as Jones
MovieRoyal Celebration
1993
as Neil
Harry
1993
as Dominic Collier
Una questione privata
1993
as Milton
MovieDamage
1992
as Martyn Fleming
MovieWhere Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Philip Herriton
MovieThe Sheltering Desert
1991
MovieThe Children
1990
as Gerald Ormerod
MovieThe Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
as Axel von dem Bussche
MovieA Handful of Dust
1988
as John Beaver
TVFortunes of War
1987
as Simon Boulderstone
MovieMaurice
1987
as Alec Scudder
TVInspector Morse
1987
as Billy
MovieA Room with a View
1986
as Freddy Honeychurch
MoviePuccini
1984
as Tonio
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983
as Teddt
Good and Bad at Games
1983
MovieMona
1982
as Jim Atkins
TVVice Versa
1981
as Tipping
TVReturn of the Saint
1978
as Prefect
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
as Self - Narrator
Seacole
as Major Harvey
MovieSecurity
