Rupert Graves : biography
30 June 1963 –
Rupert Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television and theatre actor. He is known for his early roles in A Room with a View and Maurice as well as for his more recent role as DI Lestrade in the television series Sherlock.
Early life
He was born in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England, to Mary Lousilla (née Roberts) Graves, a travel coordinator, and Richard Harding Graves, a music teacher and musician.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1978 | Return of the Saint | Prefect | Episode: "Yesterday’s Hero" |
1979 | The Famous Five | Yan | 2 episodes |
1981 | Vice Versa | Tipping | 6 episodes |
1982 | All for Love | Episode: "Mona" | |
1983 | St. Ursula’s in Danger | Teddy | |
Good and Bad at Games | Guthrie | ||
1984 | Puccini | Tonio | |
1985 | A Room with a View | Freddie Honeychurch | |
1987 | Maurice | Alec Scudder | |
Fortunes of War | Simon Boulderstone | 3 episodes | |
1988 | A Handful of Dust | John Beaver | |
1990 | The Plot to Kill Hitler | Axel von dem Busche | |
The Children | Gerald Ormerod | ||
1991 | A Private Affair | Milton | |
Where Angels Fear to Tread | Philip Herriton | ||
1992 | The Sheltering Desert | Hermann Korn | |
Inspector Morse | Billy | Episode: "Happy Families" | |
Damage | Martyn Fleming | ||
1993 | Screen One | Neil | Episode: "Royal Celebration" |
1994 | Doomsday Gun | Jones | |
Open Fire | David Martin | ||
The Madness of King George | Greville | ||
1995 | Harry | Dominic Collier | Series 2, Episode 6 |
1996 | 1914-1918 | 3 episodes | |
The Innocent Sleep | Alan Terry | ||
Intimate Relations | Harold Guppy | Montreal World Film Festival – Best Actor | |
Different for Girls | Paul Prentice | ||
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Arthur Huntingdon | 3 episodes | |
1997 | Bent | Officer on train | |
Mrs Dalloway | Septimus Warren Smith | ||
1998 | The Soldier’s Leap | Christian | Short film |
The Revengers’ Comedies | Oliver Knightly | ||
1999 | The Blonde Bombshell | Dennis Hamilton | |
Cleopatra | Octavian | ||
Vsichni moji blízcí | Nicholas Winton | ||
Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Joseph Lees | ||
2000 | Room to Rent | Mark | |
Take a Girl Like You | Patrick Standish | TV movie | |
2002 | The Forsyte Saga | Jolyon Forsyte Jr. | |
Extreme Ops | Jeffrey | ||
2003 | The Forsyte Saga: To Let | Jolyon Forsyte Jr. | 4 episodes |
Charles II: The Power & the Passion | George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham | ||
2004 | Pride | Linus | Voice only |
2005 | Rag Tale | Eddy Taylor | |
Spooks | William Sampson | Series 4, Episode 2 | |
A Waste of Shame | William Shakespeare | ||
2006 | Son of the Dragon | The Lord of the North | |
V for Vendetta | Dominic | ||
2007 | To Be First | Dr. Christiaan Barnard | |
Death at a Funeral | Robert | ||
Clapham Junction | Robin Cape | ||
Intervention | Mark | ||
The Waiting Room | George | ||
The Dinner Party | Roger | ||
2008 | Ashes to Ashes | Danny Moore | Series 1, Episode 2 |
Waking the Dead | Colonel John Garrett | 2 episodes | |
Midnight Man | Daniel Cosgrave | 3 episodes | |
God on Trial | Mordechai | ||
Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye | Lance Fortescue | ||
2009 | The Good Times Are Killing Me | Lexy | |
2009-2011 | Garrow’s Law | Sir Arthur Hill | 12 episodes |
2010 | Wallander | Alfred Harderberg | Episode: "The Man Who Smiled" |
Lewis | Alec Pickman | Episode: "Falling Darkness" | |
Made in Dagenham | Peter Hopkins | ||
Law & Order: UK | John Smith | Episode: "Defence" | |
Single Father | Stuart | 3 episodes | |
New Tricks | Adrian Levene | Episode: "Fashion Victim" | |
2010- | Sherlock | D.I. Lestrade | 5 episodes |
2011 | Case Sensitive | Mark Bretherick | 2 episodes |
Scott & Bailey | Nick Savage | 5 episodes | |
Death in Paradisehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016mw99 | James Lavender | Series 1 episode 1 | |
2012 | Putin, Russia & The West | Narrator | 4 episodes |
Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Concordia | |||
The Hunt for bin Laden | |||
Fast Girls | David Temple | ||
Doctor Who http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/02/dwn210212160008-series-7-first.html | Riddell | Series 7, Episode 2: "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"http://io9.com/5926180/doctor-who-shows-us-something-weve-never-seen-before | |
Secret State | Felix Durrell | 4 Episodes | |
2013 | The White Queen | Lord Stanley | 6 episodes |