Acting credits
110
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Rupert Graves
Acting
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Movies: 63Series: 47Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 11278
IMDb ID: nm0001291
Known for: Acting
Born: June 30, 1963
Age: 63
Place of birth: Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1978 - 2026
Years active: 49
Average TMDB rating: 6.82
Wikidata: Q472216
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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 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).
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Rupert Graves.
The Break
as Ben's Friend
2025 Movie
Juliet & Romeo
as Prince Escalaus
2025 Movie
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024 Movie
Wolves of War
as Professor Hopper
2023 Movie
Dalíland
as Captain Moore
2022 Movie
Smyrna
as George Horton
2021 Movie
Emma.
as Mr. Weston
2020 Movie
A Working Mom's Nightmare
as Eddie
2019 Movie
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
as Narrator (voice)
2019 Movie
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Paulinus
2019 Movie
Special Couple
2019 Movie
Silencio
as Peter
2018 Movie
Swimming with Men
as Luke
2018 Movie
Native
as Cane
2018 Movie
Sacrifice
as Duncan Guthrie
2016 Movie
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
2016 Movie
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as DI Lestrade
2016 Movie
Bone in the Throat
as Rupert
2015 Movie
Salting the Battlefield
as Stirling Rogers
2014 Movie
Turks & Caicos
as Stirling Rogers
2014 Movie
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
as Greg Lestrade
2013 Movie
Ultimate Tutankhamun
as Narrator (voice)
2013 Movie
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012 Movie
Fast Girls
as David Temple
2012 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Rupert Graves.
Missed Call
5 eps
2026 Series
Bookish
as Colonel Winters • 6 eps
2025 Series
The Burning Girls
as Simon Harper • 6 eps
2023 Series
The Reunion
as Richard Degalais • 6 eps
2022 Series
Surface
as Henry Huntley • 8 eps
2022 Series
McDonald & Dodds
as Gordon Elmwood • 1 eps
2020 Series
The War of the Worlds
as Frederick • 3 eps
2019 Series
Krypton
as Ter-El • 1 eps
2018 Series
Riviera
as Gabriel Hirsch • 8 eps
2017 Series
The Family
as John Warren • 12 eps
2016 Series
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
as Haply • 1 eps
2016 Series
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
as Nicholas Whiteley • 2 eps
2015 Series
12 Monkeys
as Sebastian • 1 eps
2015 Series
The Crimson Field
as Major Edward Crecy • 1 eps
2014 Series
The White Queen
as Thomas Stanley • 10 eps
2013 Series
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
as Dragutin • 2 eps
2013 Series
Secret State
as Felix Durrell • 4 eps
2012 Series
Speed Kills
as Self - Narrator • 6 eps
2012 Series
Putin, Russia and the West
as Narrator • 4 eps
2012 Series
Death in Paradise
as James Lavender • 1 eps
2011 Series
Scott & Bailey
as Nick Savage • 22 eps
2011 Series
Case Sensitive
as Mark Bretherick • 2 eps
2011 Series
Sherlock
as DI Greg Lestrade • 11 eps
2010 Series
Garrow's Law
as Sir Arthur Hill • 12 eps
2009 Series