Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1963-06-30 (Age: 63)
Place of Birth
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
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 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).
Filmography (66)
The Break
2025
Juliet & Romeo
2025
Merchant Ivory
2024
Wolves of War
2023
Dalíland
2022
Smyrna
2021
Emma.
2020
A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
Special Couple
2019
Silencio
2018
Swimming with Men
2018
Native
2018
