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Rupert S. Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), The Madness of King George (1984), and The Forsyte Saga (2002). Since 2010, he has starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock. Graves first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E. M. Forster's novels A Room with a View (1985), and Maurice (1987), before going on to appear in films including A Handful of Dust (1988), The Madness of King George (1994), Different for Girls (1996), and Intimate Relations (1996). Graves's role in Intimate Relations won him the Best Actor award at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival. He was also acclaimed for his portrayal of Young Jolyon Forsyte in the television miniseries The Forsyte Saga. Later, he appeared in films such as V for Vendetta (2005), Death at a Funeral (2007), Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019), and Emma (2020), and in TV series such as Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003), A Waste of Shame (2005), Sherlock (2010–), The Crimson Field (2014), and The Family (2016).
Emma Woodhouse is a clever, wealthy, and meddlesome young woman living in the English countryside who fancies herself an expert matchmaker. Convinced of her own superiority and immune to romantic entanglement herself, Emma meddles in the lives of those around her—particularly her timid friend Harriet Smith, whom she schemes to pair with the local vicar. Her well-intentioned interference spirals into comic chaos as misunderstandings multiply and hidden feelings surface. When the charming, mysterious Mr. Frank Churchill arrives in town, Emma's certainty wavers. Through a series of revelations and romantic missteps, Emma must confront her own blindness to love, her capacity for cruelty, and the possibility that true connection lies closer than she ever imagined. A witty exploration of self-deception, social ambition, and the transformative power of genuine affection.
