Rupert Everett

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Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett
Birth name Rupert James Hector Everett
Born May 29, 1959
Norfolk, England, UK
Height 1.93 m

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

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[edit] Biography

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. 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. 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]

[edit] Trivia

The Italian comics character Dylan Dog, created by Tiziano Sclavi, is graphically inspired by Everett. The English actor, in turn, later appeared in an adaptation of a novel based on Sclavi's novel, Dellamorte Dellamore.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Cinema (selection)

Year Title Role Other notes
2007 Stardust Secondus in post-production
Shrek the Third Prince Charming voice role
in post-production
2005 Separate Lies Bill Bule
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Fox voice role
2004 Stage Beauty King Charles II
Shrek 2 Prince Charming voice role
2003 Unconditional Love Dirk S.
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest Algernon
2001 South Kensington Dr. Claw
1999 Inspector Gadget Scolex/Claw
An Ideal Husband Lord Goring
A Midsummer Night's Dream Oberon
1998 Shakespeare in Love Christopher Marlowe
1997 My Best Friend's Wedding George Downes
1996 Dunston Checks In Lord Routledge
1994 Prêt-à-Porter Jack Lowenthal
The Madness of King George Prince of Wales
Dellamorte Dellamore Francesco Dellamorte aka Cemetery Man
1992 And Quiet Flows the Don Grigory released in 2006 on Channel One
aka Tikhiy Don
1987 Hearts of Fire James Colt
1985 Dance with a Stranger David Blakeley
1984 Another Country Guy Bennett based on the young Guy Burgess

[edit] Television (selection)

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