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 Britain's Rupert Graves made his professional stage debut in 1983 in The Killing of Mr. Toad and went on to co-star with Harvey Fierstein in the London production of Torch Song Trilogy. By the mid-80s he was a presence in quality films and TV, including Merchant Ivory films Room With A View where he played Freddy Honeychurch and Maurice where he played Alec Scudder.Rupert has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows including Emma (2020), Riviera S3 (2020), Swimming With Men (2018), The Family (2016), however most recently Rupert is best known for playing DI Greg Lestrade in BBC's Sherlock.Rupert has over 20 stage credits to his name, including The Elephant Man and Closer on Broadway, and he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in 1998 for his performance in Hurlyburly.
Bio:
Britain's Rupert Graves made his professional stage debut in 1983 in The Killing of Mr. Toad and went on to co-star with Harvey Fierstein in the London production of Torch Song Trilogy. By the mid-80s he was a presence in quality films and TV, including Merchant Ivory films Room With A View where he played Freddy Honeychurch and Maurice where he played Alec Scudder.Rupert has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows including Emma (2020), Riviera S3 (2020), Swimming With Men (2018), The Family (2016), however most recently Rupert is best known for playing DI Greg Lestrade in BBC's Sherlock.Rupert has over 20 stage credits to his name, including The Elephant Man and Closer on Broadway, and he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in 1998 for his performance in Hurlyburly.
Tivia:
Left school at the age of 15; he ran away from his hometown of Weston-super-Mare to join the circus as a clown. His stage name was Tomato, later changed to Otto.He has five children with wife Susie Lewis; Josef, Ella, Noah, Iggy and Zo?.He has starred alongside actress Helena Bonham Carter a total of five times: A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), The Revengers' Comedies (1998), and Turks & Caicos (2014).Worked odd jobs including in a shoe factory, a fish-and-chip shop and as a holiday camp entertainer prior to 1986.He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of 1997 season for his performance in "HurlyBurly" at the Queen's Theatre.Best Actor Award, 1996 Montreal Film Festival - for Intimate Relations (1996).Rupert is good at football.Attributes his name for his Merchant Ivory success.Good friends with Una Stubbs. |
| Name: |
Rupert Graves |
Type: |
Actor,Writer,Director (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
Platform: |
IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actor,Writer,Director |
| Products for sale: |
Actor,Writer,Director |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 04:59:09 |
| Height: |
5' 11' (1.80 m) |
| Biography: |
Britain\'s Rupert Graves made his professional stage debut in 1983 in The Killing of Mr. Toad and went on to co-star with Harvey Fierstein in the London production of Torch Song Trilogy. By the mid-80s he was a presence in quality films and TV, inclu |
| Trivia: |
Left school at the age of 15; he ran away from his hometown of Weston-super-Mare to join the circus as a clown. His stage name was Tomato, later changed to Otto.He has five children with wife Susie Lewis; Josef, Ella, Noah, Iggy and Zo?.He has starred alongside actress Helena Bonham Carter a total of five times: A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), The Revengers' Comedies (1998), and Turks & Caicos (2014).Worked odd jobs including in a shoe factory, a fish-and-chip shop and as a holiday camp entertainer prior to 1986.He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of 1997 season for his performance in "HurlyBurly" at the Queen's Theatre.Best Actor Award, 1996 Montreal Film Festival - for Intimate Relations (1996).Rupert is good at football.Attributes his name for his Merchant Ivory success.Good friends with Una Stubbs. |
| Trademarks: |
Expressive dark brown eyes
Often in period dramas
Often works with James Ivory and Helena Bonham Carter |
| Quotes: |
I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.
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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.
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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.
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I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
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There's a thing I think children realize at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die. |
| Job title: |
Actor,Writer,Director |
| Others works: |
(April 1998) Played "Don Parritt" in "The Iceman Cometh", a play by Eugene O'Neill (Almeida Theater, London, England, UK).
(April 2002) Played "Frederick Treves" in "The Elephant Man", a play by Bernard Pomera |
| Spouse: |
Susie Lewis (2001 - present) (5 children) |
| Parents: |
Richard Harding Graves
Mary Lucilla Graves |
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