Rupert Graves
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.249 |
Birthday | 1963-06-30 |
Place of Birth | Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK |
Also Known As | Руперт Грейвз, 루퍼트 그레이브즈, |
1998
The Revengers' Comedies
5.8/20
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2006
V for Vendetta
7.897/14434
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V for Vendetta
2007
Death at a Funeral
6.896/1714
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Death at a Funeral
1994
Doomsday Gun
5.5/13
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Doomsday Gun
1992
Damage
6.6/594
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1985
A Room with a View
6.976/743
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A Room with a View
1994
The Madness of King George
6.8/235
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The Madness of King George
2008
God on Trial
6.82/64
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2007
The Waiting Room
5.7/10
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The Waiting Room
2013
Ultimate Tutankhamun
0/0
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1987
Maurice
7.6/534
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2019
A Working Mom's Nightmare
0/0
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2002
Extreme Ops
4.8/92
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1993
Royal Celebration
6/1
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1988
A Handful of Dust
6.1/37
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1997
Mrs. Dalloway
5.6/65
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Mona
0/0
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Mona
2013
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
8/11
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1996
Intimate Relations
5.5/13
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2009
The Good Times Are Killing Me
4/2
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0/0
Short Documentary by Nic Young
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1984
Puccini
1/1
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Puccini
1991
Where Angels Fear to Tread
6.6/23
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
2005
Rag Tale
3.8/4
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Rag Tale
1996
Different for Girls
7.2/35
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Different for Girls
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
6/8
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Seacole
0/0
The biopic of Mary Seacole, a Scottish-Jamaican nurse and heroine during the Crimean War.
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Seacole
2012
Fast Girls
6.045/100
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Fast Girls
1999
All My Loved Ones
7.2/11
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All My Loved Ones
2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
5.3/7
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2007
To Be First
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To Be First
1996
The Innocent Sleep
4.3/3
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The Innocent Sleep
2014
Turks & Caicos
6.3/138
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Turks & Caicos
2014
Salting the Battlefield
6.266/111
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Salting the Battlefield
2024
Merchant Ivory
7/1
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Merchant Ivory
2012
Seven Ages of Starlight
6.8/10
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2015
Bone in the Throat
0/0
A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.
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1991
The Sheltering Desert
0/0
In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the out...
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The Sheltering Desert
2007
Clapham Junction
6.6/44
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Clapham Junction
2018
Native
6/16
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1983
Good and Bad at Games
0/0
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1993
Una questione privata
0/0
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2012
Predator Coast
0/0
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2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
0/0
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2012
Underwater Okavango
0/0
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2021
Smyrna
8.3/9
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Smyrna
2007
The Dinner Party
6/2
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2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
7.845/2238
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2001
Room to Rent
6.4/5
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2025
Verona's Romeo & Juliet
0/0
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Verona's Romeo & Juliet
2016
Sacrifice
5.3/221
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Sacrifice
1994
Open Fire
8/1
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Open Fire
1990
The Children
5.2/2
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1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler
6/23
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
2004
Pride
6.2/71
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
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Pride
1983
St. Ursula's in Danger
0/0
Play by Peter Glidewell, based on the school stories of Angela Brazil. Sequel to Schoolgirl Chums (1982).
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St. Ursula's in Danger
2010
Made in Dagenham
6.7/296
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2007
Intervention
0/0
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Intervention
2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
7.3/6
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2018
Swimming with Men
6/75
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1997
Bent
6.8/140
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Bent
2018
Silencio
6.3/17
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Silencio
2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
5.2/74
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Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
2020
Emma.
7/1726
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
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Emma.
2019
Special Couple
0/0
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2022
Dalíland
6.233/60
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Dalíland
2023
Wolves of War
5.6/4
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