Highest rated as cast or director
The Forsyte Saga
2002 · 2 Seasons
Maurice
1987
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996 · 1 Season
Secret State
2012 · 1 Season
Rupert Graves's 5 titles from the 1990s have a median Balasaur Score of 70, led by The Madness of King George (79) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (74), against 65 for those from the 2010s.
Biography
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).
Acted in 104
2020s
- 2026
Sessions
Movie
- 2025
The Break
Ben's Friend
- 2023
The Burning Girls
Simon Harper · 6 episodes
- 2022
The Reunion
Richard Degalais · 6 episodes
- 2021
Smyrna
George Horton
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
Special Couple
Movie
- 2018
Native
Cane
- 2017
- 2016
The Family
John Warren · 12 episodes
- 2015
Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
Nicholas Whiteley · 2 episodes
Bone in the Throat
Rupert
- 2014
The Crimson Field
Major Edward Crecy · 1 episode
Salting the Battlefield
Stirling Rogers
Turks & Caicos
Stirling Rogers
- 2013
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Greg Lestrade
Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Dragutin · 2 episodes
- 2012
Seven Ages of Starlight
Movie
Predator Coast
Movie
- 2011
Case Sensitive
Mark Bretherick · 2 episodes
- 2010
2000s
- 2009
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Lexy
- 2008
God on Trial
Mordechai
Midnight Man
Daniel Cosgrave · 3 episodes
Son of the Dragon
Prince of the North · 2 episodes
- 2007
The Dinner Party
Roger
The Waiting Room
George
Clapham Junction
Robin Cape
Intervention
Mark
- 2006
- 2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
William Shakespeare
Rag Tale
Eddy Taylor
- 2004
Pride
Linus (voice)
- 2003
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham · 4 episodes
- 2002
- 2001
Room to Rent
Mark
- 2000
Take a Girl Like You
Patrick Standish · 3 episodes
1990s
- 1999
All My Loved Ones
Nicholas Winton
Cleopatra
Octavian · 2 episodes
The Blonde Bombshell
Dennis Hamilton · 2 episodes
- 1998
- 1997
Mrs. Dalloway
Septimus Warren Smith
- 1996
Intimate Relations
Harold
The Innocent Sleep
Alan Terry
- 1994
Open Fire
David Martin
- 1993
Royal Celebration
Neil
- 1992
- 1991
The Sheltering Desert
Movie
- 1990
The Children
Gerald Ormerod
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Axel von dem Bussche
1980s
- 1988
- 1987
- 1986
- 1984
- 1982
Mona
Jim Atkins
- 1981
Vice Versa
Tipping · 6 episodes
No release date
Security
Movie
Created 1
2010s
- 2012
Speed Kills
Creator
Appearances7
2020s
- 2024
2010s
- 2019
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Narrator (voice)
- 2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Himself
- 2013
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Narrator (voice)
- 2012
Speed Kills
Self - Narrator · 6 episodes
Underwater Okavango
Narrator (voice)
Putin, Russia and the West
Narrator · 4 episodes