
Rupert Graves
Birthday: 1963-06-30 | Place of Birth: Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UKRupert 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). Description above is from the Wikipedia article Rupert Graves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Captain Moore
as Professor Hopper
as Simon Harper
as George Horton
as Richard Degalais
as Richard Degalais
as Mr. Weston
as Eddie
as Frederick
as Narrator (voice)
as Paulinus
as Cane
as Luke
as Peter
as lieutenant Lestrade
as lieutenant Lestrade
as Gabriel Hirsch
as Greg Lestrade
as DI Lestrade
as Duncan Guthrie
as John Warren
as Rupert
as Dragutin
as Stirling Rogers