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Rupert Graves

Born: 30 June 1963 (61 years old)
Gender: Male

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Rupert Graves is an English actor who first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E.M. Forster's novels A Room with a View and Maurice, before going on to appear in films including A Handful of Dust, Different for Girls and Intimate Relations.

He began his acting career by landing the small part of a prefect in the cult television series Return of the Saint, sharing the screen with respected film and stage actor Ian Ogilvy.

This small television part was quickly followed up with the stronger role of Yan in a television adaptation of Enid Blyton's Five Go Down to the Sea, from which a raft of more television work came his way.

In between his attempts to make it in acting, a variety of part-time employment and a mini excursion into punk-rock music followed. Amongst others, Graves worked as a circus clown, in a chip shop and in a shoe factory. However, the acting blood was still in his veins, leading him to join a troupe with the name of Silly Billy Pickles and the Peanut Street Gang, which entertained children at Butlin's holiday camps in the UK.

Born in the seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare, Graves, even with a clutch of television credits to his name, was far from a confident actor at this point in his life. Indeed, he apologised to director James Ivory for his acting in A Room with a View, convinced that he had messed up the film.

Ivory promptly signed Graves to star in a production that catapulted him into stardom, the award-winning and controversial adaptation of another E. M. Forster classic Maurice. It was this film, with its daring subject of homosexual love between two men from totally different classes, that made his career.

His numerous credits include roles in Torch Song Trilogy, Open Fire and Different for Girls. He also appeared in the winner of the Best Film award at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival, Intimate Relations, for which he was awarded Best Actor in 1996 at The Montreal Film Festival, as well as The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Where Angels Fear To Tread.

Apart from his film and television work, Graves has a great fondness for live theatre. His many works on stage include the critically acclaimed Midsummer Night's Dream at The National, Torch Song Trilogy at The Albery, A Madhouse In Goa at The Lyric Hammersmith and Apollo West End, The Caretaker at The Comedy, The Elephant Man on Broadway, Hurlyburly at The Gielgud (Olivier Award Nominee) and the award-winning Closer on Broadway.

He appeared in the award-winning ITV adaptation of The Forsyte Saga and the film V for Vendetta, Death at a Funeral and the iconic Sherlock, to name just a few.

In 2016 he had a starring role in the short-lived ABC thriller series The Family.

Rupert is married to production coordinator Susie Lewis and they are the parents of five children.



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