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).
66 movies · 46 shows
The Break
2025·0.0
Juliet & Romeo
2025·6.2
Merchant Ivory
2024·7.7
Wolves of War
2023·5.2
Dalíland
2022·5.9
Smyrna
2021·7.6
Emma.
2020·7.0
A Working Mom's Nightmare
2019·6.5
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
2019·10.0
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019·5.2
Special Couple
2019·0.0
Silencio
2018·6.3
Swimming with Men
2018·6.1
Native
2018·5.6
Sacrifice
2016·5.4
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016·7.3
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016·7.8
Bone in the Throat
2015·2.0
Salting the Battlefield
2014·6.3
Turks & Caicos
2014·6.3
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013·8.0
Ultimate Tutankhamun
2013·0.0
Seven Ages of Starlight
2012·6.8
Fast Girls
2012·6.0
Underwater Okavango
2012·0.0
Predator Coast
2012·9.0
Made in Dagenham
2010·6.7
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009·3.7
God on Trial
2008·6.8
The Dinner Party
2007·6.0
The Waiting Room
2007·5.4
Death at a Funeral
2007·6.9
To Be First
2007·0.0
Clapham Junction
2007·6.5
Intervention
2007·5.5
V for Vendetta
2006·7.9
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005·5.0
Rag Tale
2005·3.4
Pride
2004·6.1
Extreme Ops
2002·4.8
Room to Rent
2001·6.0
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999·6.4
All My Loved Ones
1999·7.2
The Revengers' Comedies
1998·5.8
Bent
1997·6.9
Mrs. Dalloway
1997·5.7
Intimate Relations
1996·5.4
Different for Girls
1996·7.2
The Innocent Sleep
1996·5.0
The Madness of King George
1994·6.8
Open Fire
1994·7.3
Doomsday Gun
1994·5.6
Royal Celebration
1993·7.5
Una questione privata
1993·10.0
Damage
1992·6.6
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991·6.6
The Sheltering Desert
1991·10.0
The Children
1990·4.9
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990·6.2
A Handful of Dust
1988·6.1
Maurice
1987·7.6
A Room with a View
1986·7.0
Puccini
1984·4.3
St. Ursula's in Danger
1983·9.0
Good and Bad at Games
1983·0.0
Mona
1982·0.0