Rupert Graves

Rupert Graves

Infobox actor


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Rupert Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English actor.

Biography

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. [cite web | url= http://www.filmreference.com/film/52/Rupert-Graves.html | title= Rupert Graves Biography | work=filmreference.com | accessdate= 2007-10-27] He first entered the entertainment business by leaving Wyvern Secondary School at the age of fifteen, to become a circus clown.

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".

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.

Filmography

*"God on Trial" (2008) (TV)
*"Waking the Dead" (2008) (2 episodes)
*"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)
*"" (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.
*"A Handful of Dust" (1988), based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh.
*"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)

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0001291|name=Rupert Graves
* [http://www.rupert-graves.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/gravesr/a-act.html Resume at PFD]


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