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Rupert Graves
Known for: ActingRupert 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).
Filmography 59
Surface
as Henry Huntley 
V for Vendetta
as Dominic 
The White Queen
as Thomas Stanley 
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Paulinus 
Bookish
as Colonel Winters 
Maurice
as Alec Scudder 
Riviera
as Gabriel Hirsch 
The Forsyte Saga
as Jolyon Forsyte Jr 
Cleopatra
as Octavian 
The War of the Worlds
as Frederick 
A Room with a View
as Freddy Honeychurch 
Garrow's Law
as Sir Arthur Hill 
Emma.
as Mr. Weston 
Extreme Ops
as Jeffrey 
Death at a Funeral
as Robert 
Damage
as Martyn Fleming 
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 
Secret State
as Felix Durrell 
The Family
as John Warren 
Bent
as Officer on Train 
The Burning Girls
as Simon Harper 
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as DI Lestrade 
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Arthur Huntingdon 
Dalíland
as Captain Moore 
The Reunion
as Richard Degalais 
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
as Dragutin 
Swimming with Men
as Luke 
Son of the Dragon
as Prince of the North 
The Madness of King George
as Greville 
Made in Dagenham
as Peter Hopkins 
A Handful of Dust
as John Beaver 
Juliet & Romeo
as Prince Escalaus 
Midnight Man
as Daniel Cosgrave 
Wolves of War
as Professor Hopper 
Fast Girls
as David Temple 
Different for Girls
as Paul Prentice 
Turks & Caicos
as Stirling Rogers 
Clapham Junction
as Robin Cape 
A Working Mom's Nightmare
as Eddie 
Merchant Ivory
as Self 
Salting the Battlefield
as Stirling Rogers 
The Revengers' Comedies
as Oliver Knightly 
Rag Tale
as Eddy Taylor 
Mrs. Dalloway
as Septimus Warren Smith 
Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Philip Herriton 
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Joseph Lees 
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Axel von dem Bussche 
Sacrifice
as Duncan Guthrie 
God on Trial
as Mordechai 
Intimate Relations
as Harold 
Silencio
as Peter 
Intervention
as Mark 
Smyrna
as George Horton 
Puccini
as Tonio 
All My Loved Ones
as Nicholas Winton 
The Good Times Are Killing Me
as Lexy 
Royal Celebration
as Neil