Rupert Graves
Birthday: 1963-06-30
Place of Birth: Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
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).
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The Revengers' Comedies
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the ...
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V for Vendetta
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” c...
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Death at a Funeral
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons i...
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Doomsday Gun
Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable ...
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Damage
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse...
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A Room with a View
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...
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The Madness of King George
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...
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God on Trial
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Tria...
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The Waiting Room
Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits...
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Ultimate Tutankhamun
This special takes a 21st century approach to ancient history, bringing together the latest scientif...
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Maurice
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restric...
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A Working Mom's Nightmare
To the outside world, Kathy is the very picture of a happy and fulfilled modern woman. She has a bea...
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Extreme Ops
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terroris...
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Royal Celebration
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wed...
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A Handful of Dust
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his...
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Mrs. Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a...
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Mona
A teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the Firs...
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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
John and Lestrade try to move on with their lives after Sherlock's apparent death. However, Anderson...
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Intimate Relations
In 1950s England, sailor Harold Guppy arrives in a small seaside town looking for his estranged brot...
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The Good Times Are Killing Me
A successful lawyer finds herself in rehab where she befriends a couple of oddballs who help her cra...
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Puccini
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his ...
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her stra...
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Rag Tale
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids....
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Different for Girls
Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns ...
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousi...
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Seacole
The biopic of Mary Seacole, a Scottish-Jamaican nurse and heroine during the Crimean War....
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Fast Girls
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete....
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All My Loved Ones
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World W...
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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the gr...
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To Be First
The year is 1967 and the race is on to make medical history. Dr Christiaan Barnard, a brilliant and ...
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The Innocent Sleep
Inspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a bridge...
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Turks & Caicos
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last s...
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Salting the Battlefield
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on ...
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Merchant Ivory
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership,...
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Seven Ages of Starlight
Seven Ages of Starlight takes us on a journey through the life of stars Stars are at the heart of a...
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Bone in the Throat
A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary sk...
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The Sheltering Desert
In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Afri...
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Clapham Junction
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths...
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Native
Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant transmission an...
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Good and Bad at Games
The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bull...
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Predator Coast
The southern coast of Africa features an array of battlefields as diverse as the predators who reign...
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Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
A male lion cub is born into a powerful pride and quickly establishes his dominance over his sibling...
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Smyrna
Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on...
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The Dinner Party
Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of ...
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special....
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Room to Rent
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. H...
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Juliet & Romeo
Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, our most famous star-crossed lovers turn the tides on the ...
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Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to ...
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Open Fire
Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arre...
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The Children
Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe ...
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate A...
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Pride
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuit...
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St. Ursula's in Danger
Play by Peter Glidewell, based on the school stories of Angela Brazil. Sequel to Schoolgirl Chums (1...
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Made in Dagenham
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out i...
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Intervention
An eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for twenty-e...
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Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Mark Gatiss, who co-created "Sherlock" and plays Mycroft Holmes, discusses the show with Benedict Cu...
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Swimming with Men
A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middl...
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Bent
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for h...
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Silencio
In order to save her son's life, Ana embarks on a quest to find a powerful stone from the Zone of Si...
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Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Brainy Roman teenager Atti is always coming up with schemes, but one ultimately goes too far, angeri...
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Emma.
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends....
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Special Couple
When Gu Dabai gets involved in a huge crisis, he has to pretend to be his best friend's significant ...
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Dalíland
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging geni...
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Wolves of War
Decorated British officer Jack Wallace must lead a band of Allied commandos across enemy lines to re...
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Kung Fu Kenzo
When Kenzo's boring office job, aggravating boss and the local bullies get too much for him, his Kun...
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The Break
Welcome to the paradise. An aspiring young actor, desperate for his big break - explores the garish...
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