Rupert Graves

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-06-30 (62 years old)

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 t...

Acting

1998

The Revengers' Comedies

as Oliver Knightly

2006

V for Vendetta

as Dominic

2007

1994

Doomsday Gun

as Jones

1992

Damage

as Martyn Fleming

1986

A Room with a View

as Freddy Honeychurch

2008

God on Trial

as Mordechai

2007

2013

Ultimate Tutankhamun

as Narrator (voice)

1987

Maurice

as Alec Scudder

2002

Extreme Ops

as Jeffrey

1988

A Handful of Dust

as John Beaver

1997

Mrs. Dalloway

as Septimus Warren Smith

1982

Mona

as Jim Atkins

2013

1996

1984

Puccini

as Tonio

1991

Where Angels Fear to Tread

as Philip Herriton

2005

Rag Tale

as Eddy Taylor

1996

Different for Girls

as Paul Prentice

1999

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Seacole

as Major Harvey

2012

Fast Girls

as David Temple

1999

All My Loved Ones

as Nicholas Winton

1996

The Innocent Sleep

as Alan Terry

2014

Turks & Caicos

as Stirling Rogers

2014

Salting the Battlefield

as Stirling Rogers

2024

2015

2007

Clapham Junction

as Robin Cape

2018

Native

as Cane

2019

Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings

as Narrator (voice)

2012

Underwater Okavango

as Narrator (voice)

2021

Smyrna

as George Horton

2007

2001

2025

Juliet & Romeo

as Prince Escalaus

2016

Sacrifice

as Duncan Guthrie

1994

Open Fire

as David Martin

1990

The Children

as Gerald Ormerod

1990

The Plot to Kill Hitler

as Axel von dem Bussche

2004

Pride

as Linus (voice)

2010

Made in Dagenham

as Peter Hopkins

2007

1997

Bent

as Officer on Train

2018

Silencio

as Peter

2020

Emma.

as Mr. Weston

2022

Dalíland

as Captain Moore

2023

Wolves of War

as Professor Hopper

2025

Kung Fu Kenzo

as Robert Wall

Production

2000

Checkout Girl

as Director

2000

Checkout Girl

as Writer

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