Rupert Graves
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Rupert Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English actor.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Graves was born in Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England, to Mary Lousilla (née Roberts), a travel co-ordinator, and Richard Harding Graves, a music teacher and musician.[1] He first entered the entertainment business by leaving Wyvern Secondary School at the age of fifteen, to become a circus clown.
[edit] Career
Graves came to prominence in costume drama adaptations of E. M. Forster novels A Room with a View (1985) and Maurice (1987), before going to appear in films such as A Handful of Dust (1988), Different for Girls (1996) and Intimate Relations (1996). His role in Intimate Relations won him the Best Actor award at the 1996 Montreal Film Festival. He was also acclaimed for his portrayal of Young Jolyon in the 2002 ITV production of The Forsyte Saga.
[edit] Awards
In addition to his screen work, Graves has also won acclaim for his stage acting, including Broadway roles in Closer (2000) and The Elephant Man (2002). One of Graves' own personal favourites is that of Presley Stray in Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney at the Bush Theatre in London in 1991, for which he won the Bass Charrington Best Actor Award.
[edit] Filmography
- Waking the Dead (2008)
- Midnight Man (2008) (miniseries)
- Ashes to Ashes (2008) (1 episode)
- Clapham Junction (2007) (TV)
- Death at a Funeral (2007)
- V for Vendetta (2006)
- Spooks (2005)
- Pride (2004) (TV) (voice)
- Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003) (miniseries)
- The Forsyte Saga (2002) (miniseries)
- Cleopatra (1999) (TV)
- Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
- Mrs. Dalloway (1997) with Vanessa Redgrave and Natascha McElhone
- Bent (1997) by Sean Mathias
- The Revengers' Comedies (1997)
- Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
- Different for Girls (1996)
- Intimate Relations (1996)
- The Madness of King George (1994) by Nicholas Hytner
- Damage (1992) by Louis Malle
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
- Fortunes of War (1987) (miniseries) with Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh
- Maurice (1987), based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
- A Room with a View (1985), based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
- Good and Bad at Games (1983) (TV)
[edit] References
- ^ Rupert Graves Biography. filmreference.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-27.
