Rupert Graves

format_quote I'm really pleased with myself. I've not had any training. I came from Weston-super-Mare, the same place as John Cleese, but I didn't have an education. I knew nothing about acting except that early on I knew I wanted to do it, and I've managed for 20 years to do things without doing them just for the money. Very, very occasionally when I've been really strapped for cash I thought I'd better do a job for money maybe about four times in 20 years, every five years or so on average. And the rest of the time I've done pretty much as I've pleased in jobs that have interested me. By those standards, which are the standards that I judge myself by, I feel happy. The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.

stars  Son of Richard Harding Graves and Mary Lousilla.

stars  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.

stars  Best Actor Award, 1996 Montreal Film Festival - "Intimate Relations"

stars  Left school at the age of 15--he ran away from his hometown of Weston-Super-Mare to join the circus as a clown.

stars  He has a son with wife Susie Lewis named Joseph, born 2003.