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Biography

Rupert Graves is a British actor, writer and director. He was born in Weston-Super-Mare on 30 June 1963. Graves left school at 15 and…more

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6/30/1963, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England

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Star (6)

Role
- Garrow's Law
  Sir Arthur Hill
  - S 3: Ep 4 Season Three, Episode Four
    12/4/11
  - S 3: Ep 3 Season Three, Episode Three
    11/27/11
  - S 3: Ep 2 Season Three, Episode Two
    11/20/11
  - S 3: Ep 1 Season Three, Episode One
    11/13/11
  - S 2: Ep 4 Season Two, Episode Four
    12/5/10
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- Scott & Bailey
  Nick Savage
  - S 1: Ep 6 Episode Six
    7/3/11
  - S 1: Ep 5 Episode Five
    6/26/11
  - S 1: Ep 3 Episode Three
    6/12/11
  - S 1: Ep 2 Episode Two
    6/5/11
  - S 1: Ep 1 Episode One
    5/29/11
- Single Father
  Stuart
- Midnight Man
  Daniel Cosgrave
- Retrosexual: The '80s
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 5 Hotties
    11/19/04
  - S 1: Ep 4 Turn Ons
    11/18/04
  - S 1: Ep 3 Taboos
    11/17/04
  - S 1: Ep 2 Teen Sex
    11/16/04
  - S 1: Ep 1 Sex Sells
    11/14/04
- The Forsyte Saga
  Jolyon Forsyte Jnr
  - S 2: Ep 1 Episode 1
    6/1/03
Recurring Role (1)

Role
- Sherlock
  DI Lestrade
  - S 2: Ep 3 The Reichenbach Fall
    1/15/12
  - S 2: Ep 2 The Hounds of Baskerville
    1/8/12
  - S 2: Ep 1 A Scandal in Belgravia
    1/1/12
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Great Game
    8/8/10
  - S 1: Ep 1 A Study in Pink
    7/25/10
Guest Star (13)

Role
- Case Sensitive
  Mark Bretherick
  - S 1: Ep 2 Episode 2
    5/3/11
  - S 1: Ep 1 Episode 1
    5/2/11
- New Tricks
  Adrian Levene
  - S 7: Ep 6 Fashion Victim
    10/15/10
- Law & Order: UK
  John Smith
  - S 3: Ep 3 Defence
    9/23/10
- Lewis
  Alex Pickman
  - S 4: Ep 4 Falling Darkness
    5/23/10
- Wallander
  Harderberg
  - S 2: Ep 2 The Man Who Smiled
    1/10/10
- Agatha Christie's Marple
  Lance Fortescue
  - S 4: Ep 1 A Pocket Full Of Rye
    9/6/09
- Waking the Dead
  John Garret
  - S 7: Ep 6 Duty and Honour (2)
    4/29/08
  - S 7: Ep 5 Duty and Honour (1)
    4/28/08
- Ashes to Ashes
  Danny Moore
  - S 1: Ep 2 Episode 2
    2/14/08
- Spooks
  William Sampson MP
  - S 4: Ep 3 Episode 3
    9/22/05
- The Famous Five
  Yan
- Inspector Morse
  Billy
  - S 6: Ep 2 Happy Families
    3/11/92
- Fortunes of War
  Simon Boulderstone
  - S 1: Ep 7 January 1943
    11/22/87
  - S 1: Ep 5 April 1941
    11/8/87
- The Famous Five (1978)
  Yan
  - S 2: Ep 7 Five Go Down to the Sea (2)
    8/8/79
  - S 2: Ep 6 Five Go Down to the Sea (1)
    8/1/79

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- On Fridays and Mondays when he isn't working, Rupert play football (soccer) with a bunch of actors, writers and producers.
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- September 2008, Rupert starred in the TV movie God on Trial on BBC2. The movie reenacts the trial the prisoners of Auschwitz put God on to determine if He had broken his covenant with his chosen people. The movie also stars Sir Antony Sher, Stephen Dillane and Dominic Cooper.
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- June 2008, saw the release of The Waiting Room, a film that explores how we care about our very young and our very old. Rupert plays a man cheating on his wife (Zoë Telford) with his neighbor (Anne-Marie Duff).
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- Rupert: (Talking about the movie "God on Trial" in which he plays a prisoner in Auschwitz) It was very heavy. Good, but very harrowing. In fact, it upset me more than anything I have ever done.
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- Rupert: (On why he prefers not working in theater now that he has young kids) I'd rather do a chunk of filming where you work intensively and and then have a month off. With a long theater run you don't see the kids because they're at school during the day, then you finish very late at night and they're bouncing around at 6am.
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- Rupert: (Showing how insecure he is about having left school early) I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams. I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated. I've drifted into acting and I've drifted into my career and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
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