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Rupert Graves
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
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…
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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).
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2026
Missed Call
TV show
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2025
The Break
Movie Ben's Friend
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2025
Bookish
TV show Colonel Winters
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2025
Juliet & Romeo
Movie Prince Escalaus
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2024
Merchant Ivory
Movie Self
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2023
The Burning Girls
TV show Simon Harper
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2023
Wolves of War
Movie Professor Hopper
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2022
The Reunion
TV show Richard Degalais
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2022
Dalíland
Movie Captain Moore
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2022
Surface
TV show Henry Huntley
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2021
Smyrna
Movie George Horton
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2020
McDonald & Dodds
TV show Gordon Elmwood
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2020
Emma.
Movie Mr. Weston
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2019
The War of the Worlds
TV show Frederick
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2019
A Working Mom's Nightmare
Movie Eddie
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2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
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2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Movie Paulinus
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2019
Special Couple
Movie
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2018
Silencio
Movie Peter
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2018
Swimming with Men
Movie Luke
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2018
Krypton
TV show Ter-El
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2018
Native
Movie Cane
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2017
Riviera
TV show Gabriel Hirsch
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2016
Sacrifice
Movie Duncan Guthrie
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2016
The Family
TV show John Warren
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2016
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
TV show Haply
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2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Movie Himself
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2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Movie DI Lestrade
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2015
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
TV show Nicholas Whiteley
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2015
Bone in the Throat
Movie Rupert
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2015
12 Monkeys
TV show Sebastian
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2014
The Crimson Field
TV show Major Edward Crecy
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2014
Salting the Battlefield
Movie Stirling Rogers
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2014
Turks & Caicos
Movie Stirling Rogers
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2013
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Movie Greg Lestrade
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2013
The White Queen
TV show Thomas Stanley
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2013
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
TV show Dragutin
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2013
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2012
Secret State
TV show Felix Durrell
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2012
Seven Ages of Starlight
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