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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).
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The University of British Cinema
From the dreaming spires of Cambridge to the redbrick campuses of the provinces, a journey through the British university film and what it reveals about class,...
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The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
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The Reunion
2022 · Richard Degalais
Dalíland
2022 · Captain Moore
Emma.
2020 · Mr. Weston
The War of the Worlds
2019 · Frederick
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019 · Paulinus
The White Queen
2013 · Thomas Stanley
Secret State
2012 · Felix Durrell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996 · Arthur Huntingdon
The Madness of King George
1994 · Greville
Damage
1992 · Martyn Fleming
A Handful of Dust
1988 · John Beaver
Maurice
1987 · Alec Scudder
A Room with a View
1986 · Freddy Honeychurch