Rupert Graves
Acting
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).
TV Shows(45)
Missed Call
2026
The Burning Girls
Simon Harper
2023
The Reunion
Richard Degalais
2022
Surface
Henry Huntley
2022
McDonald & Dodds
Gordon Elmwood
2020
The War of the Worlds
Frederick
2019
Krypton
Ter-El
2018
Riviera
Gabriel Hirsch
2017
The Family
John Warren
2016
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
Haply
2016
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
Nicholas Whiteley
2015
12 Monkeys
Sebastian
2015
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Dragutin
2014
The Crimson Field
Major Edward Crecy
2014
The White Queen
Thomas Stanley
2013
Secret State
Felix Durrell
2012
Speed Kills
Self - Narrator
2012
Putin, Russia and the West
Narrator
2012
Death in Paradise
James Lavender
2011
Scott & Bailey
Nick Savage
2011
Case Sensitive
Mark Bretherick
2011
Sherlock
DI Greg Lestrade
2010
Garrow's Law
Sir Arthur Hill
2009
Law & Order: UK
2009
Wallander
2008
Midnight Man
Daniel Cosgrave
2008
Son of the Dragon
Prince of the North
2008
Ashes to Ashes
Danny Moore
2008
Doctor Who
Riddell
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Lance Fortescue
2004
This World
2004
New Tricks
Adrian Levene
2004
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
2003
Spooks
William Sampson
2002
The Forsyte Saga
Young Jolyon Forsyte
2002
Waking the Dead
Colonel John Garrett
2001
Take a Girl Like You
Patrick Standish
2000
Cleopatra
Octavian
1999
The Blonde Bombshell
Dennis Hamilton
1999
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Arthur Huntingdon
1996
Harry
Dominic Collier
1993
Fortunes of War
Simon Boulderstone
1987
Inspector Morse
Billy
1987
Vice Versa
Tipping
1981
Return of the Saint
Prefect
1978
Movies(69)
The Break
Ben's Friend
2025
Juliet & Romeo
Prince Escalaus
2025
Merchant Ivory
Self
2024
Wolves of War
Professor Hopper
2023
Dalíland
Captain Moore
2022
Smyrna
George Horton
2021
Emma.
Mr. Weston
2020
A Working Mom's Nightmare
Eddie
2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Narrator (voice)
2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Paulinus
2019
Special Couple
2019
Silencio
Peter
2018
Swimming with Men
Luke
2018
Native
Cane
2018
Sacrifice
Duncan Guthrie
2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Himself
2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
DI Lestrade
2016
Bone in the Throat
Rupert
2015
Salting the Battlefield
Stirling Rogers
2014
Turks & Caicos
Stirling Rogers
2014
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Greg Lestrade
2013
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Narrator (voice)
2013
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012
Fast Girls
David Temple
2012
Underwater Okavango
Narrator (voice)
2012
Predator Coast
2012
Made in Dagenham
Peter Hopkins
2010
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Lexy
2009
God on Trial
Mordechai
2008
The Dinner Party
Roger
2007
The Waiting Room
George
2007
Death at a Funeral
Robert
2007
To Be First
2007
Clapham Junction
Robin Cape
2007
Intervention
Mark
2007
V for Vendetta
Dominic
2006
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
William Shakespeare
2005
Rag Tale
Eddy Taylor
2005
Pride
Linus (voice)
2004
Extreme Ops
Jeffrey
2002
Room to Rent
Mark
2001
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Joseph Lees
1999
All My Loved Ones
Nicholas Winton
1999
The Revengers' Comedies
Oliver Knightly
1998
Bent
Officer on Train
1997
Mrs. Dalloway
Septimus Warren Smith
1997
Intimate Relations
Harold
1996
Different for Girls
Paul Prentice
1996
The Innocent Sleep
Alan Terry
1996
The Madness of King George
Greville
1994
Open Fire
David Martin
1994
Doomsday Gun
Jones
1994
Royal Celebration
Neil
1993
Una questione privata
Milton
1993
Damage
Martyn Fleming
1992
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Philip Herriton
1991
The Sheltering Desert
1991
The Children
Gerald Ormerod
1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Axel von dem Bussche
1990
A Handful of Dust
John Beaver
1988
Maurice
Alec Scudder
1987
A Room with a View
Freddy Honeychurch
1986
Puccini
Tonio
1984
St. Ursula's in Danger
Teddt
1983
Good and Bad at Games
1983
Mona
Jim Atkins
1982
What Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Self - Narrator
Seacole
Major Harvey
Security