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Rupert Graves
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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). Description above is from the Wikipedia article Rupert Graves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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). Description above is from the Wikipedia article Rupert Graves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
New Tricks
Agatha Christie's Marple
Doctor Who
Death in Paradise
Waking the Dead
Inspector Morse
Law & Order: UK
Ashes to Ashes
ShakespeaRe-Told
12 Monkeys
McDonald & Dodds
Harry
Spooks
Wallander
Fortunes of War
Krypton
The Crimson Field
The White Queen
Death at a Funeral
Surface
The Burning Girls
Doomsday Gun
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Emma.
A Room with a View
V for Vendetta
The Madness of King George
The Dinner Party
The Revengers' Comedies
Garrow's Law
Sherlock
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Extreme Ops
Pride
Dalíland
The War of the Worlds
Cleopatra
Riviera
Maurice
Scott & Bailey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Royal Celebration
St. Ursula's in Danger
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Take a Girl Like You
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Seven Ages of Starlight
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