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).

Filmography

• Missed Call
• Bookish — Colonel Winters
• 2025Juliet & Romeo — Prince Escalaus
• 2025The Break — Ben's Friend
• The Burning Girls — Simon Harper
• 2023Wolves of War — Professor Hopper
• 2022Dalíland — Captain Moore
• Surface — Henry Huntley
• The Reunion — Richard Degalais
• 2021Smyrna — George Horton
• 2020Emma. — Mr. Weston
• McDonald & Dodds — Gordon Elmwood
• 2019A Working Mom's Nightmare — Eddie
• 2019Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans — Paulinus
• 2019Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings — Narrator (voice)
• 2019Special Couple
• The War of the Worlds — Frederick
• Krypton — Ter-El
• 2018Native — Cane
• 2018Silencio — Peter
• 2018Swimming with Men — Luke
• Riviera — Gabriel Hirsch
• 2016Sacrifice — Duncan Guthrie
• 2016Sherlock: The Abominable Bride — DI Lestrade
• The Family — John Warren
• The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells — Haply
• 12 Monkeys — Sebastian
• 2015Bone in the Throat — Rupert
• Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family — Nicholas Whiteley
• 2014Salting the Battlefield — Stirling Rogers
• The Crimson Field — Major Edward Crecy
• 2014Turks & Caicos — Stirling Rogers
• Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down — Dragutin
• 2013Sherlock: Many Happy Returns — Greg Lestrade
• The White Queen — Thomas Stanley
• 2013Ultimate Tutankhamun — Narrator (voice)
• 2012Fast Girls — David Temple
• 2012Predator Coast
• Putin, Russia and the West — Narrator
• Secret State — Felix Durrell
• 2012Seven Ages of Starlight
• Speed Kills — Self - Narrator, Creator
• 2012Underwater Okavango — Narrator (voice)
• Case Sensitive — Mark Bretherick
• Death in Paradise — James Lavender
• Scott & Bailey — Nick Savage
• 2010Made in Dagenham — Peter Hopkins
• Sherlock — DI Greg Lestrade
• Garrow's Law — Sir Arthur Hill
• Law & Order: UK
• 2009The Good Times Are Killing Me — Lexy
• Ashes to Ashes — Danny Moore
• 2008God on Trial — Mordechai
• Midnight Man — Daniel Cosgrave
• Son of the Dragon — Prince of the North
• Wallander
• 2007Clapham Junction — Robin Cape
• 2007Death at a Funeral — Robert
• 2007Intervention — Mark
• Lewis — Alec Pickman
• 2007The Dinner Party — Roger
• 2007The Waiting Room — George
• 2007To Be First
• 2006V for Vendetta — Dominic
• 2005A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets — William Shakespeare
• Doctor Who — Riddell
• 2005Rag Tale — Eddy Taylor
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Lance Fortescue
• New Tricks — Adrian Levene
• 2004Pride — Linus (voice)
• This World
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion — George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
• 2002Extreme Ops — Jeffrey
• Spooks — William Sampson
• The Forsyte Saga — Young Jolyon Forsyte, Jolyon Forsyte Jr
• 2001Room to Rent — Mark
• Waking the Dead — Colonel John Garrett
• 2000Checkout Girl — Director, Writer
• Take a Girl Like You — Patrick Standish
• 1999All My Loved Ones — Nicholas Winton
• Cleopatra — Octavian
• 1999Dreaming of Joseph Lees — Joseph Lees
• The Blonde Bombshell — Dennis Hamilton
• 1998The Revengers' Comedies — Oliver Knightly
• 1997Bent — Officer on Train
• 1997Mrs. Dalloway — Septimus Warren Smith
• 1996Different for Girls — Paul Prentice
• 1996Intimate Relations — Harold
• 1996The Innocent Sleep — Alan Terry
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Arthur Huntingdon
• 1994Doomsday Gun — Jones
• 1994Open Fire — David Martin
• 1994The Madness of King George — Greville
• Harry — Dominic Collier
• 1993Royal Celebration — Neil
• 1993Una questione privata — Milton
• 1992Damage — Martyn Fleming
• 1991The Sheltering Desert
• 1991Where Angels Fear to Tread — Philip Herriton
• 1990The Children — Gerald Ormerod
• 1990The Plot to Kill Hitler — Axel von dem Bussche
• 1988A Handful of Dust — John Beaver
• Fortunes of War — Simon Boulderstone
• Inspector Morse — Billy
• 1987Maurice — Alec Scudder
• 1986A Room with a View — Freddy Honeychurch
• 1984Puccini — Tonio
• 1983Good and Bad at Games
• 1983St. Ursula's in Danger — Teddt
• 1982Mona — Jim Atkins
• Vice Versa — Tipping
• Return of the Saint — Prefect
• The Famous Five — Yan
• Seacole — Major Harvey
• Security

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2024Merchant Ivory — Self
• 2016Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock — Himself
• What Destroyed the Hindenburg? — Self - Narrator