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).
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as DI Lestrade
Age 52 (now 62)
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
as Narrator (voice)
Age 56 (now 62)
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Paulinus
Age 56 (now 62)
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
Age 52 (now 62) Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as DI Lestrade
Age 52 (now 62)
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
as William Shakespeare
Age 42 (now 62)
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
as Haply
Age 52 (now 62)
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
as Nicholas Whiteley
Age 52 (now 62)
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
as Dragutin
Age 51 (now 62)
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Age 40 (now 62)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Arthur Huntingdon
Age 33 (now 62)
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