Actor profile

Rupert Graves

30th June 1963 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK 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).

69 Movies 45 TV Shows 114 Credits

Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The Break poster

The Break 4th October 2025 as Ben's Friend

Juliet & Romeo poster

Juliet & Romeo 9th May 2025 as Prince Escalaus

Merchant Ivory poster

Merchant Ivory 30th August 2024 as Self

Wolves of War poster

Wolves of War 26th January 2023 as Professor Hopper

Dalíland poster

Dalíland 29th September 2022 as Captain Moore

Smyrna poster

Smyrna 23rd December 2021 as George Horton

Emma. poster

Emma. 13th February 2020 as Mr. Weston

A Working Mom's Nightmare poster

A Working Mom's Nightmare 3rd October 2019 as Eddie

Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings poster

Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings 1st August 2019 as Narrator (voice)

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans poster

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans 26th July 2019 as Paulinus

Special Couple poster

Special Couple 19th June 2019

Silencio poster

Silencio 26th October 2018 as Peter

Swimming with Men poster

Swimming with Men 6th July 2018 as Luke

Native poster

Native 23rd February 2018 as Cane

Sacrifice poster

Sacrifice 29th April 2016 as Duncan Guthrie

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock poster

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock 11th January 2016 as Himself

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride poster

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride 1st January 2016 as DI Lestrade

Bone in the Throat poster

Bone in the Throat 16th March 2015 as Rupert

Salting the Battlefield poster

Salting the Battlefield 27th March 2014 as Stirling Rogers

Turks & Caicos poster

Turks & Caicos 20th March 2014 as Stirling Rogers

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns poster

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns 24th December 2013 as Greg Lestrade

Ultimate Tutankhamun poster

Ultimate Tutankhamun 10th February 2013 as Narrator (voice)

Seven Ages of Starlight poster

Seven Ages of Starlight 25th October 2012

Fast Girls poster

Fast Girls 15th June 2012 as David Temple

Underwater Okavango poster

Underwater Okavango 1st June 2012 as Narrator (voice)

Predator Coast poster

Predator Coast 1st January 2012

Made in Dagenham poster

Made in Dagenham 1st October 2010 as Peter Hopkins

The Good Times Are Killing Me poster

The Good Times Are Killing Me 13th September 2009 as Lexy

God on Trial poster

God on Trial 3rd September 2008 as Mordechai

The Dinner Party poster

The Dinner Party 9th September 2007 as Roger

The Waiting Room poster

The Waiting Room 18th August 2007 as George

Death at a Funeral poster

Death at a Funeral 17th August 2007 as Robert

To Be First 12th August 2007

Clapham Junction poster

Clapham Junction 22nd July 2007 as Robin Cape

Intervention poster

Intervention 1st January 2007 as Mark

V for Vendetta poster

V for Vendetta 23rd February 2006 as Dominic

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets poster

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets 22nd November 2005 as William Shakespeare

Rag Tale poster

Rag Tale 7th October 2005 as Eddy Taylor

Pride poster

Pride 21st June 2004 as Linus (voice)

Extreme Ops poster

Extreme Ops 27th November 2002 as Jeffrey

Room to Rent poster

Room to Rent 22nd June 2001 as Mark

Dreaming of Joseph Lees poster

Dreaming of Joseph Lees 29th October 1999 as Joseph Lees

All My Loved Ones poster

All My Loved Ones 21st October 1999 as Nicholas Winton

The Revengers' Comedies poster

The Revengers' Comedies 9th June 1998 as Oliver Knightly

Bent poster

Bent 26th November 1997 as Officer on Train

Mrs. Dalloway poster

Mrs. Dalloway 1st September 1997 as Septimus Warren Smith

Different for Girls poster

Different for Girls 1st October 1996 as Paul Prentice

Intimate Relations poster

Intimate Relations 1st October 1996 as Harold

The Innocent Sleep poster

The Innocent Sleep 25th January 1996 as Alan Terry

The Madness of King George poster

The Madness of King George 28th December 1994 as Greville

Open Fire poster

Open Fire 12th November 1994 as David Martin

Doomsday Gun poster

Doomsday Gun 23rd July 1994 as Jones

Royal Celebration poster

Royal Celebration 26th September 1993 as Neil

Una questione privata 16th July 1993 as Milton

Damage poster

Damage 2nd December 1992 as Martyn Fleming

Where Angels Fear to Tread poster

Where Angels Fear to Tread 21st June 1991 as Philip Herriton

The Sheltering Desert poster

The Sheltering Desert 1st February 1991

The Children poster

The Children 18th May 1990 as Gerald Ormerod

The Plot to Kill Hitler poster

The Plot to Kill Hitler 30th January 1990 as Axel von dem Bussche

A Handful of Dust poster

A Handful of Dust 24th June 1988 as John Beaver

Maurice poster

Maurice 18th September 1987 as Alec Scudder

A Room with a View poster

A Room with a View 7th March 1986 as Freddy Honeychurch

Puccini poster

Puccini 1st January 1984 as Tonio

St. Ursula's in Danger 20th December 1983 as Teddt

Good and Bad at Games 18th December 1983

Mona poster

Mona 8th August 1982 as Jim Atkins

Seacole as Major Harvey

Security poster

Security

What Destroyed the Hindenburg? as Self - Narrator

Missed Call poster

Missed Call 13th April 2026

The Burning Girls poster

The Burning Girls 19th October 2023 as Simon Harper

The Reunion poster

The Reunion 17th October 2022 as Richard Degalais

Surface poster

Surface 28th July 2022 as Henry Huntley

McDonald & Dodds poster

McDonald & Dodds 1st March 2020 as Gordon Elmwood

The War of the Worlds poster

The War of the Worlds 17th November 2019 as Frederick

Krypton poster

Krypton 21st March 2018 as Ter-El

Riviera poster

Riviera 15th June 2017 as Gabriel Hirsch

The Family poster

The Family 3rd March 2016 as John Warren

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells poster

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells 28th January 2016 as Haply

Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family poster

Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family 19th October 2015 as Nicholas Whiteley

12 Monkeys poster

12 Monkeys 16th January 2015 as Sebastian

Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down poster

Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down 7th July 2014 as Dragutin

The Crimson Field poster

The Crimson Field 6th April 2014 as Major Edward Crecy

The White Queen poster

The White Queen 16th June 2013 as Thomas Stanley

Secret State poster

Secret State 7th November 2012 as Felix Durrell

Speed Kills poster

Speed Kills 7th October 2012 as Self - Narrator

Putin, Russia and the West poster

Putin, Russia and the West 19th January 2012 as Narrator

Death in Paradise poster

Death in Paradise 25th October 2011 as James Lavender

Scott & Bailey poster

Scott & Bailey 29th May 2011 as Nick Savage

Case Sensitive poster

Case Sensitive 2nd May 2011 as Mark Bretherick

Sherlock poster

Sherlock 25th July 2010 as DI Greg Lestrade

Garrow's Law poster

Garrow's Law 1st November 2009 as Sir Arthur Hill

Law & Order: UK poster

Law & Order: UK 23rd February 2009

Wallander poster

Wallander 30th November 2008

Midnight Man poster

Midnight Man 8th May 2008 as Daniel Cosgrave

Son of the Dragon poster

Son of the Dragon 2nd April 2008 as Prince of the North

Ashes to Ashes poster

Ashes to Ashes 7th February 2008 as Danny Moore

Doctor Who poster

Doctor Who 26th March 2005 as Riddell

Agatha Christie's Marple poster

Agatha Christie's Marple 12th December 2004 as Lance Fortescue

This World poster

This World 4th January 2004

New Tricks poster

New Tricks 1st January 2004 as Adrian Levene

Charles II: The Power and The Passion poster

Charles II: The Power and The Passion 16th November 2003 as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Spooks poster

Spooks 13th May 2002 as William Sampson

The Forsyte Saga poster

The Forsyte Saga 7th April 2002 as Jolyon Forsyte Jr

Waking the Dead poster

Waking the Dead 18th June 2001 as Colonel John Garrett

Take a Girl Like You poster

Take a Girl Like You 26th November 2000 as Patrick Standish

Cleopatra poster

Cleopatra 23rd May 1999 as Octavian

The Blonde Bombshell poster

The Blonde Bombshell 26th April 1999 as Dennis Hamilton

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall poster

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 17th November 1996 as Arthur Huntingdon

Harry 18th September 1993 as Dominic Collier

Fortunes of War poster

Fortunes of War 11th October 1987 as Simon Boulderstone

Inspector Morse poster

Inspector Morse 6th January 1987 as Billy

Vice Versa poster

Vice Versa 29th September 1981 as Tipping

Return of the Saint poster

Return of the Saint 10th September 1978 as Prefect