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Name: Rupert Graves
Birthplace: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England
Birthdate: June 30, 1963
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Height: 5'11"

Best Known as: Alec Scudder in Maurice

Rupert Graves was born a rebel, resisting authority and breaking rules at an early age. In his teens he became a punk rocker and even found work as a circus clown and in traveling comedy troupes. In 1983 he made his professional stage debut in "The Killing of Mr. Toad" and went on to co-star with Harvey Fierstein in the London production of "Torch Song Trilogy." It didn't take long for somebody to take note of Rupert's boyish good looks and offbeat versatility. By the mid-80s he was a presence in quality films and TV, primarily period pieces such as his Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View and the gay drama Maurice.Rupert moved to the front of the class quickly. His decisions to select classy, obscure arthouse films as opposed to box-office mainstream may have put a dimmer on his star, but earned him a distinct reputation as a daring, controversial artist in the same vein as Johnny Depp.

Filmography:
The Day I Ran Into All My Ex-Boyfriends (2005) (pre-production)
V for Vendetta (2005) Dominic
Rag Tale (2005) Eddy Taylor
Pride (2004) (TV) (voice) Linus
"Charles II: The Power & the Passion" (2003) (mini) TV Series George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
... aka The Last King (USA)
"The Forsyte Saga: To Let" (2003) (mini) TV Series Jolyon Forsyte
Extreme Ops (2002) Jeffrey
"The Forsyte Saga" (2002) (mini) TV Series Jolyon
Take a Girl Like You (2000) (TV) Patrick Standish
Room to Rent (2000) Mark
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999) Joseph Lees
Vsichni moji blízcí (1999) Nicholas Winton
... aka All My Loved Ones (USA) 
Cleopatra (1999) (TV) Octavian
The Blonde Bombshell (1999) (TV) Dennis Hamilton
"Animal Minds" (1999) (mini) TV Series (voice) Narrator
The Revengers' Comedies (1998) Oliver Knightly
... aka Sweet Revenge (USA: cable TV title)
The Soldier's Leap (1998) Christian
Mrs. Dalloway (1997) Septimus Warren Smith
Bent (1997) Officer on Train
Different for Girls (1996) Paul Prentice
... aka Crossing the Border
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) (TV) Arthur Huntingdon
Intimate Relations (1996) Harold Guppy
The Innocent Sleep (1996) Alan Terry
The Madness of King George (1994) Greville
Open Fire (1994/II) (TV) David Martin
Royal Celebration (1993) (TV) Neil
Damage (1992) Martyn Fleming
... aka Fatale (France)
The Sheltering Desert (1992) Hermann Korn
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) Philip Herriton
Una Questione privata (1991) (TV) Milton
... aka A Private Affair (UK)
The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990) (TV) Axel von dem Bussche
The Children (1990) Gerald Ormerod
A Handful of Dust (1988) John Beaver
"Fortunes of War" (1987) (mini) TV Series Simon Boulderstone
Maurice (1987) .... Alec Scudder
A Room with a View (1985) In England - Freddy Honeychurch
Puccini (1984) (TV) Puccini's son
Good and Bad at Games (1983) (TV) Guthrie

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