
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

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Lance Fortescue

Spooks
2002
as William Sampson

Waking the Dead
2001
as Colonel John Garrett

New Tricks
2004
as Adrian Levene

Inspector Morse
1987
as Billy

12 Monkeys
2015
as Sebastian

Law & Order: UK
2009

Krypton
2018
as Ter-El

Riviera
2017
as Gabriel Hirsch

Wallander
2008

Return of the Saint
1978
as Prefect

McDonald & Dodds
2020
as Gordon Elmwood

Ashes to Ashes
2008
as Danny Moore

The White Queen
2013
as Thomas Stanley

Surface
2022
as Henry Huntley

The Forsyte Saga
2002
as Young Jolyon Forsyte / Jolyon Forsyte Jr

Scott & Bailey
2011
as Nick Savage

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

The War of the Worlds
2019
as Frederick

The Family
2016
as John Warren
Harry
1993
as Dominic Collier

Cleopatra
1999
as Octavian

The Crimson Field
2014
as Major Edward Crecy

Secret State
2012
as Felix Durrell

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
as Arthur Huntingdon

The Burning Girls
2023
as Simon Harper

Fortunes of War
1987
as Simon Boulderstone

Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2014
as Dragutin

Case Sensitive
2011
as Mark Bretherick

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
as Haply

Son of the Dragon
2008
as Prince of the North

The Reunion
2022
as Richard Degalais

Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015
as Nicholas Whiteley

Midnight Man
2008
as Daniel Cosgrave

Take a Girl Like You
2000
as Patrick Standish

Putin, Russia and the West
2012
as Narrator

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

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
as DI Lestrade

Maurice
1987
as Alec Scudder

Death at a Funeral
2007
as Robert

A Room with a View
1986
as Freddy Honeychurch

Pride
2004
as Linus (voice)

The Madness of King George
1994
as Greville

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
as Paulinus

Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Stirling Rogers

Dalíland
2022
as Captain Moore

Turks & Caicos
2014
as Stirling Rogers

Juliet & Romeo
2025
as Prince Escalaus

The Children
1990
as Gerald Ormerod

Made in Dagenham
2010
as Peter Hopkins

Bent
1997
as Officer on Train

Fast Girls
2012
as David Temple

Predator Coast
2012

Extreme Ops
2002
as Jeffrey

Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Septimus Warren Smith

A Handful of Dust
1988
as John Beaver

Intimate Relations
1996
as Harold

Silencio
2018
as Peter

Sacrifice
2016
as Duncan Guthrie

Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Philip Herriton

Intervention
2007
as Mark

Doomsday Gun
1994
as Jones

Open Fire
1994
as David Martin

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
as William Shakespeare

All My Loved Ones
1999
as Nicholas Winton

Special Couple
2019

The Innocent Sleep
1996
as Alan Terry

Swimming with Men
2018
as Luke

Bone in the Throat
2015
as Rupert

God on Trial
2008
as Mordechai

The Dinner Party
2007
as Roger

Wolves of War
2023
as Professor Hopper

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
as Joseph Lees

Clapham Junction
2007
as Robin Cape

The Revengers' Comedies
1998
as Oliver Knightly

Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self

Different for Girls
1996
as Paul Prentice

The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
as Axel von dem Bussche

Puccini
1984
as Tonio

Royal Celebration
1993
as Neil

Rag Tale
2005
as Eddy Taylor

The Waiting Room
2007
as George

Smyrna
2021
as George Horton

The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
as Lexy
Seacole
as Major Harvey
Una questione privata
1993
as Milton

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
as Himself

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013
as Greg Lestrade

Native
2018
as Cane

Room to Rent
2001
as Mark

Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013
as Narrator (voice)

A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019
as Eddie

The Sheltering Desert
1991
To Be First
2007
Good and Bad at Games
1983

Seven Ages of Starlight
2012

Mona
1982
as Jim Atkins

Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019
as Narrator (voice)

The Break
2025
as Ben's Friend
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983
as Teddt

Underwater Okavango
2012
as Narrator (voice)
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
as Self - Narrator

Security
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
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016) — as DI Lestrade
- Maurice (1987) — as Alec Scudder
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