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Born in a seaside resort town, Britain's Rupert Graves was born a rebel, resisting authority and breaking rules at an early age. In his teens he became a punk rocker and even found work as a circus clown and in traveling comedy troupes. In 1983 he made his professional stage debut in "The Killing of Mr... See full bio »

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in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
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2013/I Sacrifice (pre-production)
Duncan Guthrie
 
2013 The White Queen (TV series) (filming)
Lord Stanley
– Episode #1.1 … Lord Stanley
 
2013 Air Force One is Down (TV series)
Dragutin
– Episode #1.1 (2013) … Dragutin
– Episode #1.2 (2013) … Dragutin
 
2012 Secret State (TV series)
Felix Durrell
– Episode #1.4 (2012) … Felix Durrell
– Episode #1.3 (2012) … Felix Durrell
– Episode #1.2 (2012) … Felix Durrell
– Episode #1.1 (2012) … Felix Durrell
 
2012 Doctor Who (TV series)
John Riddell
– Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (2012) … John Riddell
 
2012 Fast Girls
David Temple
 
2012 The Charles Dickens Show (TV series)
Doctor John Snow
– Health (2012) … Doctor John Snow
 
2010-2012 Sherlock (TV series)
DI Lestrade
– The Reichenbach Fall (2012) … DI Lestrade
– The Hounds of Baskerville (2012) … DI Lestrade
– A Scandal in Belgravia (2012) … DI Lestrade
– Unaired Pilot (2010) … DI Lestrade
– The Great Game (2010) … DI Lestrade
See all 6 episodes »
 
2009-2011 Garrow's Law (TV series)
Sir Arthur / Sir Arthur Hill
– Episode #3.4 (2011) … Sir Arthur Hill
– Episode #3.3 (2011) … Sir Arthur Hill
– Episode #3.2 (2011) … Sir Arthur Hill
– Episode #3.1 (2011) … Sir Arthur Hill
– Episode #2.4 (2010) … Sir Arthur
See all 12 episodes »
 
2011 Death in Paradise (TV series)
James Lavender
– Episode #1.1 (2011) … James Lavender
 
2011 Scott & Bailey (TV series)
Nick Savage
– Episode #1.6 (2011) … Nick Savage
– Episode #1.5 (2011) … Nick Savage
– Episode #1.3 (2011) … Nick Savage
– Episode #1.2 (2011) … Nick Savage
– Episode #1.1 (2011) … Nick Savage
 
2011 Case Sensitive (TV series)
Mark Bretherick
– The Point of Rescue: Part 2 (2011) … Mark Bretherick
– The Point of Rescue (2011) … Mark Bretherick
 
2010 Single Father (TV mini-series)
Stuart
– Episode #1.4 (2010) … Stuart
– Episode #1.3 (2010) … Stuart
– Episode #1.2 (2010) … Stuart
– Episode #1.1 (2010) … Stuart (uncredited)
 
2010 New Tricks (TV series)
Adrian Levene
– Fashion Victim (2010) … Adrian Levene
 
2010 Law & Order: UK (TV series)
John Smith
– Defence (2010) … John Smith
 
2010 Made in Dagenham
Peter Hopkins
 
2010 Inspector Lewis (TV series)
Alec Pickman
– Falling Darkness (2010) … Alec Pickman
 
2010 Wallander (TV series)
Alfred Harderberg
– The Man Who Smiled (2010) … Alfred Harderberg
 
2009 The Good Times Are Killing Me (TV movie)
Lexy
 
2008 Masterpiece Contemporary (TV series)
– God on Trial (2008)
 
2008 Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (TV movie)
Lance Fortescue
 
2008 God on Trial (TV movie)
Mordechai
 
2008 Midnight Man (TV mini-series)
Daniel Cosgrave
– Part 3 (2008) … Daniel Cosgrave
– Part 2 (2008) … Daniel Cosgrave
– Part 1 (2008) … Daniel Cosgrave
 
2008 Waking the Dead (TV series)
Colonel John Garrett
– Duty and Honour: Part 2 (2008) … Colonel John Garrett
– Duty and Honour: Part 1 (2008) … Colonel John Garrett
 
2008 Ashes to Ashes (TV series)
Danny Moore
– Episode #1.2 (2008) … Danny Moore
 
2007 The Dinner Party (TV movie)
Roger
 
2007/I The Waiting Room
George
 
2007/V Intervention
Mark
 
2007 Clapham Junction (TV movie)
Robin Cape
 
2007 Death at a Funeral
Robert
 
2007 To Be First (TV movie)
Doctor Christiaan Barnard
 
2006 Son of the Dragon (TV mini-series)
The Lord of the North
 
2005 V for Vendetta
Dominic
 
2005 A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (TV movie)
William Shakespeare
 
2005 MI-5 (TV series)
William Sampson
– Episode #4.3 (2005) … William Sampson
 
2005 Rag Tale
Eddy Taylor
 
2004 Pride (TV movie)
Linus (voice)
 
2003 The Last King (TV mini-series)
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
– Episode #1.4 (2003) … George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
– Episode #1.3 (2003) … George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
– Episode #1.2 (2003) … George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
– Episode #1.1 (2003) … George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
 
2003 The Forsyte Saga, Series II (TV mini-series)
Jolyon Forsyte
– Episode #1.4 (2003) … Jolyon Forsyte
– Episode #1.3 (2003) … Jolyon Forsyte
– Episode #1.2 (2003) … Jolyon Forsyte
– Episode #1.1 (2003) … Jolyon Forsyte
 
2002-2003 The Forsyte Saga (TV mini-series)
Jolyon Forsyte Jr.
– Episode #2.3 (2003) … Jolyon Forsyte Jr.
– Episode #2.2 (2003) … Jolyon Forsyte Jr.
– Episode #2.1 (2003) … Jolyon Forsyte Jr.
– Episode #1.6 (2002) … Jolyon Forsyte Jr.
– Episode #1.5 (2002) … Jolyon Forsyte Jr.
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2002 Extreme Ops
Jeffrey
 
2000 Take a Girl Like You (TV movie)
Patrick Standish
 
2000 Room to Rent
Mark
 
1999 Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Joseph Lees
 
1999 All My Loved Ones
Nicholas Winton
 
1999 Cleopatra (TV mini-series)
Octavian
 
1999 The Blonde Bombshell (TV movie)
Dennis Hamilton
 
1998 The Revengers' Comedies
Oliver Knightly
 
1998 The Soldier's Leap (short)
Christian
 
1997 Mrs Dalloway
Septimus Warren Smith
 
1997 Bent
Officer on Train
 
1996 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (TV mini-series)
Huntingdon
– Episode #1.3 (1996) … Huntingdon
– Episode #1.1 (1996) … Huntingdon
– Episode #1.2 (1996) … Huntingdon
 
1996 Different for Girls
Paul Prentice
 
1996 Intimate Relations
Harold Guppy
 
1996 The Innocent Sleep
Alan Terry
 
1996 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (TV series)
– Collapse (1996) (voice)
– Slaughter (1996) (voice)
– Stalemate (1996) (voice)
 
1995 Harry (TV series)
Dominic Collier
– Episode #2.6 (1995) … Dominic Collier
 
1994 The Madness of King George
Robert Fulke Greville
 
1994 Open Fire (TV movie)
David Martin
 
1994 Doomsday Gun (TV movie)
Jones
 
1993 Screen One (TV series)
Neil
– Royal Celebration (1993) … Neil
 
1993 Una questione privata (TV movie)
Milton
 
1992 Damage
Martyn Fleming
 
1992 Inspector Morse (TV series)
Billy
– Happy Families (1992) … Billy
 
1992 The Sheltering Desert
Hermann Korn
 
1991 Where Angels Fear to Tread
Philip Herriton
 
1990 The Plot to Kill Hitler (TV movie)
Axel von dem Bussche
 
1990 The Children
Gerald Ormerod
 
1988 A Handful of Dust
John Beaver
 
1987 Fortunes of War (TV mini-series)
Simon Boulderstone
– The Middle East: January 1943 (1987) … Simon Boulderstone
– Egypt: September 1942 (1987) … Simon Boulderstone
– Egypt: April 1941 (1987) … Simon Boulderstone
 
1987 Maurice
Alec Scudder
 
1985 A Room with a View
Freddy Honeychurch
 
1984 Puccini (TV movie)
Tonio
 
1983 Good and Bad at Games (TV movie)
Guthrie
 
1983 St. Ursula's in Danger (TV movie)
Teddy
 
1982 All for Love (TV series)
– Mona (1982)
 
1981 Vice Versa (TV series)
Tipping
– The Reckoning (1981) … Tipping
– The Escape (1981) … Tipping
– The Letter (1981) … Tipping
– The Fight (1981) … Tipping
– The Trial (1981) … Tipping
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1979 Famous Five (TV series)
Yan
– Five Go Down to the Sea: Part 2 (1979) … Yan
– Five Go Down to the Sea: Part 1 (1979) … Yan
 
1978 Return of the Saint (TV series)
Prefect
– Yesterday's Hero (1978) … Prefect
 
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2010 Jeremywolf (video short) (co-director)
 
2000 Checkout Girl (short)
 
Show ShowWriter (2 titles)
2010 Jeremywolf (video short)
 
2000 Checkout Girl (short) (written by)
 
Show ShowEditor (1 title)
2010 Jeremywolf (video short)
 
Show ShowSelf (13 titles)
2012 What Destroyed the Hindenburg? (documentary)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
 
2012 Seven Ages of Starlight (TV documentary)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
 
2012 The Hunt for Bin Laden (TV documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
2012 The Sinking of the Concordia: Caught on Camera (TV documentary)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
 
2012 Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Concordia (TV documentary)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
 
2011 Putin, Russia and the West (TV series documentary)
Narrator
– New Start (2011) … Narrator
– War (2011) … Narrator
– Democracy Threatens (2011) … Narrator
– Taking Control (2011) … Narrator
 
2011 The Passionate Eye (TV series documentary)
Himself / Narrator
– My Mother Diana (2011) … Himself/Narrator
 
2006 Freedom! Forever!: Making 'V for Vendetta' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2006 The King's Head: A Maverick in London (video documentary)
Himself
 
2003 The Making of 'Charles II' (TV documentary)
 
2003 The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2003 (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Nature (TV series documentary)
Narrator
– Inside the Animal Mind Part One: Are Animals Intelligent? (2000) … Narrator
 
1999 Animal Minds (TV mini-series documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
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Personal Details

Other Works:

(2000) He acted in Harold Pinter's play, "The Caretaker", at the Comedy Theatre in London, England with Sir Michael Gambon CBE, Douglas Hodge in the cast. Directed by Patrick Marber. See more »

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Height:

5' 11" (1.80 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

"I'm really pleased with myself. I've not had any training. I came from Weston-super-Mare, the same place as John Cleese, but I didn't have an education. I knew nothing about acting except that early on I knew I wanted to do it, and I've managed for 20 years to do things without doing them just for the money... See more »

Trivia:

Rupert is good at football. See more »

Trademark:

Expressive dark brown eyes See more »

Star Sign:

Cancer