Rupert Graves
Known For
Acting
Born
1963-06-30 in 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).
Most Known For
Doctor Who
as Riddell
Death in Paradise
as James Lavender
Sherlock
as DI Greg Lestrade
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lance Fortescue
12 Monkeys
as Sebastian
Spooks
as William Sampson
Inspector Morse
as Billy
Waking the Dead
as Colonel John Garrett
New Tricks
as Adrian Levene
Krypton
as Ter-El
McDonald & Dodds
as Gordon Elmwood
V for Vendetta
as Dominic
Surface
as Henry Huntley
Wallander
The White Queen
as Thomas Stanley
Riviera
as Gabriel Hirsch
Return of the Saint
as Prefect
Law & Order: UK
Ashes to Ashes
as Danny Moore
Emma.
as Mr. Weston