Rupert Graves
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Doctor Who
Riddell
2005
Series
Death in Paradise
James Lavender
2011
Series
Lewis
Alec Pickman
2007
Series
Spooks
William Sampson
2002
Series
Sherlock
DI Greg Lestrade
2010
Series
Waking the Dead
Colonel John Garrett
2001
Series
New Tricks
Adrian Levene
2004
Series
12 Monkeys
Sebastian
2015
Series
Agatha Christie's Marple
Lance Fortescue
2004
Series
Inspector Morse
Billy
1987
Series
McDonald & Dodds
Gordon Elmwood
2020
Series
Law & Order: UK
2009
Series
Krypton
Ter-El
2018
Film
V for Vendetta
Dominic
2006
Series
Riviera
Gabriel Hirsch
2017
Series
Surface
Henry Huntley
2022
Series
Wallander
2008
Series
Ashes to Ashes
Danny Moore
2008
Series
Return of the Saint
Prefect
1978
Series
Scott & Bailey
Nick Savage
2011
Series
The White Queen
Thomas Stanley
2013
Series
Garrow's Law
Sir Arthur Hill
2009
Series
This World
2004
Series
Bookish
Colonel Winters
2025
Series
The Famous Five
Yan
1978
Series
The Forsyte Saga
Young Jolyon Forsyte
2002
Series
The Forsyte Saga
Jolyon Forsyte Jr
2002
Series
The War of the Worlds
Frederick
2019
Series
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
2003
Film
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
DI Lestrade
2016
Film
A Room with a View
Freddy Honeychurch
1986
Film
Emma.
Mr. Weston
2020
Film
Death at a Funeral
Robert
2007
Harry
Dominic Collier
1993
Series
The Family
John Warren
2016
Film
Damage
Martyn Fleming
1992
Series
The Crimson Field
Major Edward Crecy
2014
Series
Fortunes of War
Simon Boulderstone
1987
Series
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Dragutin
2013
Series
Cleopatra
Octavian
1999
Film
Merchant Ivory
Self
2024
Series
The Burning Girls
Simon Harper
2023
Series
Secret State
Felix Durrell
2012
Series
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Arthur Huntingdon
1996
Series
The Reunion
Richard Degalais
2022
Film
Maurice
Alec Scudder
1987
Series
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
Haply
2016
Series
Case Sensitive
Mark Bretherick
2011
Film
The Madness of King George
Greville
1994
Film
Made in Dagenham
Peter Hopkins
2010
Film
Juliet & Romeo
Prince Escalaus
2025
Series
Take a Girl Like You
Patrick Standish
2000
Film
Dalíland
Captain Moore
2022
Series
Son of the Dragon
Prince of the North
2008
Film
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Paulinus
2019
Film
Extreme Ops
Jeffrey
2002
Series
Missed Call
2026
Film
Turks & Caicos
Stirling Rogers
2014
Series
The Blonde Bombshell
Dennis Hamilton
1999
Film
A Handful of Dust
John Beaver
1988
Series
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
Nicholas Whiteley
2015
Film
Fast Girls
David Temple
2012
Film
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Philip Herriton
1991
Film
Sacrifice
Duncan Guthrie
2016
Film
Swimming with Men
Luke
2018
Film
Salting the Battlefield
Stirling Rogers
2014
Film
Doomsday Gun
Jones
1994
Film
Security
Film
Silencio
Peter
2018
Series
Midnight Man
Daniel Cosgrave
2008
Series
Vice Versa
Tipping
1981
Film
Different for Girls
Paul Prentice
1996
Film
Wolves of War
Professor Hopper
2023
Film
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Joseph Lees
1999
Film
Mona
Jim Atkins
1982
Film
Bent
Officer on Train
1997
Film
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
William Shakespeare
2005
Film
The Revengers' Comedies
Oliver Knightly
1998
Film
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Axel von dem Bussche
1990
Film
God on Trial
Mordechai
2008
Film
A Working Mom's Nightmare
Eddie
2019
Series
Putin, Russia and the West
Narrator
2012
Film
Mrs. Dalloway
Septimus Warren Smith
1997
Film
Clapham Junction
Robin Cape
2007
Film
The Break
Ben's Friend
2025
Film
Pride
Linus (voice)
2004
Film
Bone in the Throat
Rupert
2015
Film
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Lexy
2009
Film
Predator Coast
2012
Film
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Himself
2016
Film
Underwater Okavango
Narrator (voice)
2012
Film
Royal Celebration
Neil
1993
Film
Room to Rent
Mark
2001
Film
Intimate Relations
Harold
1996
Film
Rag Tale
Eddy Taylor
2005
Film
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Greg Lestrade
2013
Film
The Children
Gerald Ormerod
1990
Film
Intervention
Mark
2007
Film
Smyrna
George Horton
2021
Film
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Narrator (voice)
2013
Film
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012
Film
The Waiting Room
George
2007
Good and Bad at Games
1983
Film
The Innocent Sleep
Alan Terry
1996
Film
The Dinner Party
Roger
2007
Series
Speed Kills
Self - Narrator
2012
Film
All My Loved Ones
Nicholas Winton
1999
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Self - Narrator
Film
Open Fire
David Martin
1994
Seacole
Major Harvey
St. Ursula's in Danger
Teddt
1983
Una questione privata
Milton
1993
Film
Puccini
Tonio
1984
Film
Special Couple
2019
Film
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Narrator (voice)
2019
Film
The Sheltering Desert
1991
Film
Native
Cane
2018
To Be First
2007