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Rupert Everett

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Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959) is an English actor and a former singer.

Biography[edit]

Everett was born in Norfolk, England to Major Anthony Michael Everett and Sara Maclean, who was Scottish, and descended from the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Schmiedern barons. He has an older brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett (b. 1956). He's also a grand-nephew of Donald Maclean, the (in)famous spy, with whom he shares a striking resemblence and are also both bisexual. From the age of 7 he was educated at Farleigh House preparatory school and later was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, but dropped out of school at 15 and ran away to London to become an actor. In order to support himself, he worked as a male prostitute, or "rent boy," as he later admitted to US magazine in 1997.[unverified] After being dismissed from the Central School of Speech and Drama for insubordination, he travelled to Scotland and got a job in the avant-garde Citizens' Theatre of Glasgow.

His break came with the 1982 West End production of Another Country, playing a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh, followed by a film version in 1984 with Colin Firth. He began to develop a promising film career, until he co-starred with Bob Dylan in the huge flop Hearts of Fire (1987).

In 1989 he moved to Paris, writing a novel Hello, Darling, Are You Working? and coming out as gay, a move which some at the time perceived as damaging to his career. Returning to the public eye in The Comfort of Strangers (1990), several films of variable success followed. In 1995 he released a second novel, The Hairdresser of St. Tropez.

Everett's career was revitalized by My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), playing Julia Roberts's gay friend. In 1999, he played Madonna's gay best friend in The Next Best Thing (he also sang backup on her cover of American Pie, which is on the film's soundtrack). He has since appeared in a number of high-profile film roles, often playing heterosexual leads. He is also a Vanity Fair contributing editor.

In 2006 Everett published his memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins. In it he revealed he had had a 6-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates. “I am mystified by my heterosexual affairs — but then I am mystified by most of my relationships," he said, with the article describing him as bisexual as opposed to homosexual. [1]

But in a radio show with Jonathan Ross, Everett described his heterosexual affairs as resulting from adventurousness: "I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything." [2]

Everett has appeared in the smash hit Shrek 2 (2004) as Prince Charming. He will reprise this role in upcoming film Shrek the Third, to be released May 18, 2007.

In 2007 Everett appeared in the Comic Relief special Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, where he left after a day after being very uncomfortable being in front of cameras without a script and dialogue.

Trivia[edit]

Filmography[edit]

Cinema (selection)[edit]

Year Title Role Other notes
1984 Another Country Guy Bennett based on the young Guy Burgess
1985 Dance with a Stranger David Blakeley
1987 Hearts of Fire James Colt
1992 And Quiet Flows the Don Grigory released in 2006 on Channel One
aka Tikhiy Don
1994 Prêt-à-Porter Jack Lowenthal
The Madness of King George Prince of Wales
Dellamorte Dellamore Francesco Dellamorte aka Cemetery Man
1996 Dunston Checks In Lord Routledge
1997 My Best Friend's Wedding George Downes
1998 Shakespeare in Love Christopher Marlowe
1999 An Ideal Husband Lord Goring
Inspector Gadget Sanford Scolex/Dr. Claw
A Midsummer Night's Dream Oberon
2000 The Next Best Thing Robert Whittaker
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest Algernon
2003 Unconditional Love Dirk S.
2004 Stage Beauty King Charles II
Shrek 2 Prince Charming voice role
2005 Separate Lies Bill Bule
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Fox voice role
2007 Stardust Secondus in post-production
Shrek the Third Prince Charming voice role
in post-production

Television (selection)[edit]

External links[edit]

This article is based on a GNU FDL LGBT Wikia article: Everett Rupert Everett LGBT