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Rupert Graves

Actor / Film Director / Screenwriter | * 06/30/1963 (60) | Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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Rupert Simeon 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, Maurice, The Madness of King George and The Forsyte Saga. From 2010 to 2017 he starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock. ()
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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).Description above is from the Wikipedia article Rupert Graves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Mystery

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In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woma ...

V for Vendetta

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2006 | 3.9/5 | 2h 12min
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
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After his lover rejects him, a young man in early 20th century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality. ...

Maurice

R

1987 | 3.8/5 | 2h 20min
Drama, Romance / Love
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A myriad of outrageous calamities befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets, when its patriarch dies an unexpected death. Soon, every complication imaginable befal ...

Death at a Funeral

R

2007 | 3.4/5 | 1h 30min
Comedy, Drama
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A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London. ...

Sherlock

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2010 | 4.3/5 | 1h 30min per episode
Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Awards & Nominations for Rupert Graves

Theatre World Award
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Movies with Rupert Graves as Actor(59)

as Major Harvey2023 Seacole
as himself2023 Merchant Ivory
as Professor Hopper2022 Wolves of War
as Captain Moore2022 Dalíland
as Mr. Weston2020 Emma.
as Paulinus2019 Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
as Eddie2019 Lie of You
2019 Special Couple
as Peter2018 Silencio
as Luke2018 Swimming with Men
as Cane2018 Native
as DI Lestrade2016 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as himself2016 Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Duncan Guthrie2016 Sacrifice
as Rupert2015 Bone in the Throat
as Stirling Rogers2014 Turks & Caicos
as Stirling Rogers2014 Salting the Battlefield
as Narrator (voice)2013 Ultimate Tutankhamun
2012 Predator Coast
2012 Seven Ages of Starlight
as David Temple2012 Fast Girls
as Peter Hopkins2010 Made in Dagenham
as Lexy2009 The Good Times Are Killing Me
as Mordechai2008 God on Trial
2007 To Be First
as George2007 The Waiting Room
as Robin Cape2007 Clapham Junction
as Robert2007 Death at a Funeral
as Mark2007 Intervention
as Roger2007 The Dinner Party
as Dominic2006 V for Vendetta
as William Shakespeare2005 A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
as Eddy Taylor2005 Rag Tale
as Linus (voice)2004 Pride
as Jeffrey2002 Extreme Ops
as Mark2001 Room to Rent
as Patrick Standish2000 Take a Girl Like You
as Joseph Lees1999 Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Nicholas Winton1999 All My Loved Ones
as Oliver Knightly1998 The Revengers' Comedies
as Septimus Warren Smith1997 Mrs. Dalloway
as Officer on Train1997 Bent
as Paul Prentice1996 Different for Girls
as Harold1996 Intimate Relations
as Alan Terry1996 The Innocent Sleep
as David Martin1994 Open Fire
as Greville1994 The Madness of King George
as Jones1994 Doomsday Gun
as Neil1993 Royal Celebration
as Martyn Fleming1992 Damage
1991 The Sheltering Desert
as Philip Herriton1991 Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Axel von dem Bussche1990 The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Gerald Ormerod1990 The Children
as John Beaver1988 A Handful of Dust
as Alec Scudder1987 Maurice
as Freddy Honeychurch1985 A Room with a View
1983 Good and Bad at Games
as Teddt1983 St. Ursula's in Danger

TV Shows/Series with Rupert Graves as Actor(38)

as Simon Harper2023 The Burning Girls
as Richard Degalais2022 The Reunion
as Gordon Elmwood2020 McDonald & Dodds
as Frederick2019 The War of the Worlds
as Ter-El2018 Krypton
as Gabriel Hirsch2017 Riviera
as Haply2016 The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
as John Warren2016 The Family
as Nicholas Whiteley2015 Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
as Sebastian2015 12 Monkeys
as Dragutin2014 Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
2014 The Crimson Field
as Thomas Stanley2013 The White Queen
as Narrator2012 Putin, Russia and the West
as Felix Durrell2012 Secret State
as James Lavender2011 Death in Paradise
as Mark Bretherick2011 Case Sensitive
as Nick Savage2011 Scott & Bailey
as DI Greg Lestrade2010 Sherlock
as Sir Arthur Hill2009 Garrow's Law
2009 Law & Order: UK
as Daniel Cosgrave2008 Midnight Man
as Prince of the North2008 Son of the Dragon
2008 Wallander
as Riddell2005 Doctor Who
as Shakespeare2005 ShakespeaRe-Told
2004 This World
2003 Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham2003 Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2002 Spooks
as Young Jolyon Forsyte2002 The Forsyte Saga
as Colonel John Garrett2000 Waking the Dead
as Dennis Hamilton1999 The Blonde Bombshell
as Arthur Huntington1996 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Dominic Collier1993 Harry
as Billy1987 Inspector Morse
as Simon Boulderstone1987 Fortunes of War
as Prefect1978 Return of the Saint

Movies with Rupert Graves as Crew(2)

Directing/Director2000 Checkout Girl
Writing/Writer2000 Checkout Girl

Additional Information

Full Name: Rupert Graves
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Sunday, 06/30 1963 (June) in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 60 years + 302 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Hans Price Academy
Other names for Rupert Graves (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Руперт Грейвз"
"루퍼트 그레이브즈"
Rupert Graves frequently works together with these people:
Paul Kasey (20x, Actor)
Mark Gatiss (14x, Actor)
Nicholas Briggs (12x, Actor)
Dan Starkey (8x, Actor)
Helena Bonham Carter (7x, Actress)
Steven Moffat (6x, Crew)
Celestia Fox (6x, Crew)
James Ivory (6x, Crew)
Derek Riddell (6x, Actor)
Peter Davison (5x, Actor)
David Hare (5x, Crew)
James Wilby (5x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:987, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/22/2024