Rupert Graves

ActorDirectorWriter Jun 30 (age 62) Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK 1978–2025 (47 year career)

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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 Du…

Known For

Film

V for Vendetta

Dominic

Film

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

DI Lestrade

Film

Emma.

Mr. Weston

Film

Death at a Funeral

Robert

Film

Maurice

Alec Scudder

Film

A Room with a View

Freddy Honeychurch

Film

The White Queen

Thomas Stanley

Film

Damage

Martyn Fleming

Filmography

Acting (117)

Movies (71)

Juliet & Romeo

2025

as Prince Escalaus

6.3

Kung Fu Kenzo

2025

as Robert Wall

The Break

2025

as Ben's Friend

Merchant Ivory

as Self

Wolves of War

as Professor Hopper

Dalíland

as Captain Moore

Smyrna

as George Horton

Emma.

as Mr. Weston

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans

2019

as Paulinus

5.2

Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings

2019

as Narrator (voice)

10.0

Special Couple

2019

A Working Mom's Nightmare

as Eddie

Native

as Cane

Silencio

as Peter

Swimming with Men

as Luke

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

2016

as DI Lestrade

7.8

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

as Himself

Sacrifice

as Duncan Guthrie

Bone in the Throat

as Rupert

Salting the Battlefield

as Stirling Rogers

Turks & Caicos

as Stirling Rogers

Sherlock: His Last Vow

2014

9.0

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns

2013

as Greg Lestrade

7.9

Ultimate Tutankhamun

2013

as Narrator (voice)

Seven Ages of Starlight

Fast Girls

as David Temple

Underwater Okavango

as Narrator (voice)

Predator Coast

Made in Dagenham

as Peter Hopkins

The Good Times Are Killing Me

as Lexy

God on Trial

as Mordechai

To Be First

Death at a Funeral

as Robert

Clapham Junction

as Robin Cape

The Waiting Room

as George

The Dinner Party

as Roger

Intervention

as Mark

V for Vendetta

as Dominic

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

2005

as William Shakespeare

Rag Tale

as Eddy Taylor

Pride

as Linus (voice)

Extreme Ops

as Jeffrey

Room to Rent

as Mark

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

as Joseph Lees

All My Loved Ones

as Nicholas Winton

The Revengers' Comedies

as Oliver Knightly

Bent

as Officer on Train

Mrs. Dalloway

as Septimus Warren Smith

The Innocent Sleep

as Alan Terry

Intimate Relations

as Harold

Different for Girls

as Paul Prentice

The Madness of King George

as Greville

Doomsday Gun

as Jones

Open Fire

as David Martin

Una questione privata

1993

as Milton

Royal Celebration

as Neil

Damage

as Martyn Fleming

The Sheltering Desert

1991

Where Angels Fear to Tread

1991

as Philip Herriton

6.5

The Plot to Kill Hitler

1990

as Axel von dem Bussche

The Children

as Gerald Ormerod

A Handful of Dust

as John Beaver

Maurice

as Alec Scudder

A Room with a View

as Freddy Honeychurch

6.9

Puccini

1984

as Tonio

1.0

St. Ursula's in Danger

1983

as Teddt

Good and Bad at Games

1983

Mona

1982

as Jim Atkins

What Destroyed the Hindenburg?

as Self - Narrator

Seacole

as Major Harvey

Security

Television (46)

The Burning Girls

as Simon Harper

Surface

as Henry Huntley

The Reunion

as Richard Degalais

McDonald & Dodds

as Gordon Elmwood

The War of the Worlds

as Frederick

Krypton

as Ter-El

Riviera

as Gabriel Hirsch

The Family

as John Warren

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells

as Haply

12 Monkeys

as Sebastian

Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family

2015

as Nicholas Whiteley

10.0

The Crimson Field

2014

as Major Edward Crecy

7.5

Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down

as Dragutin

The White Queen

as Thomas Stanley

Secret State

as Felix Durrell

Putin, Russia and the West

2012

as Narrator

2.0

Speed Kills

2012

as Self - Narrator

Death in Paradise

as James Lavender

Scott & Bailey

as Nick Savage

Case Sensitive

as Mark Bretherick

Sherlock

as Self / DI Lestrade

Law & Order: UK

Garrow's Law

as Sir Arthur Hill

Ashes to Ashes

as Danny Moore

Wallander

Son of the Dragon

as Prince of the North

Midnight Man

as Daniel Cosgrave

Doctor Who

as Riddell

ShakespeaRe-Told

as Shakespeare

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Lance Fortescue

New Tricks

as Adrian Levene

This World

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

2003

as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Spooks

as William Sampson

The Forsyte Saga

as Young Jolyon Forsyte

7.9

Waking the Dead

2001

as Colonel John Garrett

Take a Girl Like You

as Patrick Standish

Cleopatra

as Octavian

The Blonde Bombshell

as Dennis Hamilton

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

as Arthur Huntingdon

Harry

as Dominic Collier

Inspector Morse

as Billy

Fortunes of War

as Simon Boulderstone

Vice Versa

as Tipping

Return of the Saint

as Prefect

Missed Call

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Checkout Girl

2000

Director

Checkout Girl

2000

Writer