Best Actor Award, 1996 Montreal Film Festival - "Intimate Relations"
Worked odd jobs including a shoe factory and a fish-and-chips shop prior to 1986.
Left school at the age of 15--he ran away from his hometown of Weston-Super-Mare to join the circus as a clown.
He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of 1997 season for his performance in HurlyBurly at the Queen's Theatre.
He has a son with wife Susie Lewis named Joseph, born 2003.
Rupert Graves Detailed Biography -
If an actor was paid solely on how much work he did in a year, then Rupert Graves would be a millionaire many times over.
It has been said many times before that he is one of the busiest thespians around, and never a more factual statement in the world of entertainment has been made.
Looking back from his beginning in television - a small part in the cult television series, "The Return Of The Saint", in 1978, followed by the role of Yan in an adaptation of Enid Blyton's "Five Go Down To The Sea" in 1979.
This versatile English actor's CV is a history of a seemingly never ending workload.
