Rupert Graves
Known for ActingBorn 1963-06-30Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
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.
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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
Damage
1992 · as Martyn Fleming
V for Vendetta
2006 · as Dominic
Emma.
2020 · as Mr. Weston
Death at a Funeral
2007 · as Robert
Maurice
1987 · as Alec Scudder
A Room with a View
1986 · as Freddy Honeychurch
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016 · as DI Lestrade
Juliet & Romeo
2025 · as Prince Escalaus
Merchant Ivory
2024 · as Self
Dalíland
2022 · as Captain Moore
Made in Dagenham
2010 · as Peter Hopkins
Fast Girls
2012 · as David Temple
Swimming with Men
2018 · as Luke
Doomsday Gun
1994 · as Jones
The Madness of King George
1994 · as Greville
Silencio
2018 · as Peter
Seacole
as Major Harvey
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019 · as Paulinus