Acting credits
106
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Rupert Graves
Acting
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Movies: 63Series: 43Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 11278
IMDb ID: nm0001291
Known for: Acting
Born: June 30, 1963
Age: 62
Place of birth: Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1978 - 2025
Years active: 48
Average TMDB rating: 6.78
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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Movie credits linked with Rupert Graves.
The Break
as Ben's Friend
2025 Movie
6.3
Juliet & Romeo
as Prince Escalaus
2025 Movie
Kung Fu Kenzo
as Robert Wall
2025 Movie
7.7
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024 Movie
5.5
Wolves of War
as Professor Hopper
2023 Movie
6.0
Dalíland
as Captain Moore
2022 Movie
8.0
Smyrna
as George Horton
2021 Movie
7.0
Emma.
as Mr. Weston
2020 Movie
6.5
A Working Mom's Nightmare
as Eddie
2019 Movie
10.0
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
as Narrator (voice)
2019 Movie
5.2
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Paulinus
2019 Movie
Special Couple
2019 Movie
6.3
Silencio
as Peter
2018 Movie
6.1
Swimming with Men
as Luke
2018 Movie
5.6
Native
as Cane
2018 Movie
5.4
Sacrifice
as Duncan Guthrie
2016 Movie
7.3
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
2016 Movie
7.8
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as DI Lestrade
2016 Movie
Bone in the Throat
as Rupert
2015 Movie
6.2
Salting the Battlefield
as Stirling Rogers
2014 Movie
6.3
Turks & Caicos
as Stirling Rogers
2014 Movie
7.9
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
as Greg Lestrade
2013 Movie
Ultimate Tutankhamun
as Narrator (voice)
2013 Movie
6.8
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Rupert Graves.
6.8
The Burning Girls
as Simon Harper • 6 eps
2023 Series
6.3
The Reunion
as Richard Degalais • 6 eps
2022 Series
6.2
Surface
as Henry Huntley • 8 eps
2022 Series
7.6
McDonald & Dodds
as Gordon Elmwood • 1 eps
2020 Series
6.7
The War of the Worlds
as Frederick • 3 eps
2019 Series
7.1
Krypton
as Ter-El • 1 eps
2018 Series
6.1
Riviera
as Gabriel Hirsch • 8 eps
2017 Series
6.4
The Family
as John Warren • 12 eps
2016 Series
6.0
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
as Haply • 1 eps
2016 Series
10.0
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
as Nicholas Whiteley • 2 eps
2015 Series
7.4
12 Monkeys
as Sebastian • 1 eps
2015 Series
4.8
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
as Dragutin • 2 eps
2014 Series
7.5
The Crimson Field
as Major Edward Crecy • 1 eps
2014 Series
7.3
The White Queen
as Thomas Stanley • 10 eps
2013 Series
7.1
Secret State
as Felix Durrell • 4 eps
2012 Series
Speed Kills
as Self - Narrator • 6 eps
2012 Series
2.0
Putin, Russia and the West
as Narrator • 4 eps
2012 Series
7.5
Death in Paradise
as James Lavender • 1 eps
2011 Series
7.3
Scott & Bailey
as Nick Savage • 22 eps
2011 Series
6.9
Case Sensitive
as Mark Bretherick • 2 eps
2011 Series
8.5
Sherlock
as DI Greg Lestrade • 11 eps
2010 Series
7.4
Garrow's Law
as Sir Arthur Hill • 12 eps
2009 Series
7.0
Law & Order: UK
1 eps
2009 Series
7.3
Wallander
1 eps
2008 Series