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Full Name:Rupert Everett
Birth Name:Rupert James Hector Everett
Famous As: actor, novelist
Date of Birth: May 29, 1959
Place of Birth: Norfolk, England, UK
Height: 6' 4
Nationality: British

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Rupert Everett

Everett at the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Born Rupert James Hector Everett
29 May 1959 (1959-05-29) (age 49)
Norfolk, England
Occupation actor, ex-singer
Years active 1982 – present

Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is a two-time Golden Globe-nominated English film actor and ex-singer. He first came into public attention in the early 1980s when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country for playing an openly homosexual student at an English public school, set in the 1930s. Since then he has subsequently appeared in many other films including My Best Friend's Wedding, An Ideal Husband, The Next Best Thing and the Shrek sequels. He currently lives in London.12

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Personal background

Everett was born and raised in Norfolk, England to Sara (née MacLean, 19 September 1934 - ) and Major Anthony Michael Everett, who worked in business and served in the military. Through his maternal grandparents, Lady Opre Vyvyan and Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald MacLean, he is a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Schmiedern barons, as well as a grand-nephew of Donald Duart Maclean, the Soviet double agent, and a great-grandson of the Liberal politician Sir Donald Maclean, who was Leader of the parliamentary opposition in the years following the First World War.34 He has an older brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett (b. 1956).

From the age of 7 he was educated at Farleigh School, Hampshire, and later was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, but he dropped out of school aged 15 and ran away to London to become an actor. In order to support himself, he worked as a male prostitute, or "rent boy", for drugs and money as he later admitted to US magazine in 1997.5 After being dismissed from the Central School of Speech and Drama for insubordination, he travelled to Scotland and got a job at the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow.

Career

1980s

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). Around the same time, Everett recorded and released an album of pop songs, entitled Generation Of Loneliness. Despite being managed by the largely successful pop svengali Simon Napier-Bell (who also managed Marc Bolan, launched and managed Japan, and steered Wham! to international fame) and the title track reaching the Top 40 in the UK, the public didn't take to his change in direction. The shift was shortlived, and he would only return to pop indirectly by providing backing vocals for his friend Madonna many years later, on her cover of "American Pie" and on the track "They Can't Take That Away from Me" on Robbie Williams' Swing When You're Winning in 2001.

1990s

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. The Italian comics character Dylan Dog, created by Tiziano Sclavi, is graphically inspired by him. The English actor, in turn, later appeared in an adaptation of a novel based on Sclavi's novel, Dellamorte Dellamore. In 1995 he released a second novel, The Hairdressers of St. Tropez.

His 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.

2000s

Everett attending a speed dating event with When the Music Stops, for Channel 4's The Friday Night Project in July 2007.

Throughout the 2000s, Everett has decided to write again. He has been a Vanity Fair contributing editor and wrote a film screenplay on playwriter Oscar Wilde's final years, for which he seeks funding.6 In 2006, he published a memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins. In it he revealed he had a 6-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates. 7 “I am mystified by my heterosexual affairs — but then I am mystified by most of my relationships," he wrote. Although he is sometimes described as bisexual as opposed to homosexual, at a radio show with Jonathan Ross,8 he described his heterosexual affairs as resulting from adventurousness: "I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything" and in an interview on This Morning he simply described himself as homosexual, making a joke of any suggestion he might find a woman attractive.

Since then, he has participated in public activities (leading the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras), played a double role in the film St. Trinian's, and has appeared on TV several times (as a contestant in the special Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, as a presenter at Live Earth and as guest host at Channel 4 show The Friday Night Project among others), but he has made more news for making shocking comments and remarks at interviews that have caused public outrage 91011121314 than for any accomplishment.

In May 2007, he delivered one of the eulogies at the funeral of fashionista Isabella Blow, his friend since they where in their teens.

Future projects

He will be the presenter in a Channel 4 documentary on Romantic poet Lord Byron's travels, due to be broadcast in April 20091516 and has a part in the upcoming 2009 comedy film Wild Target, starring Bill Nighy. Also, in the 2008-2009 winter he is expected to tour several Italian cities in Noël Coward's play “Private Lives” (performed in Italian, which he speaks fluently), playing Elyot to Italian actress Asia Argento's Amanda17 and in February 2009 he will make his Broadway debut performing in another Noël Coward play, "Blithe Spirit", starring alongside Angela Lansbury and Christine Ebersole, directed by Michael Blakemore.1819

Golden Globe nominations

Filmography

Cinema

Year Title Role Notes
1982 A Shocking Accident Jerome and Mr. Weathersby Short film
1983 Princess Daisy Ram Valenski TV mini-series
1984 Another Country Guy Bennett based on the young Guy Burgess
1985 Dance with a Stranger David Blakeley
1987 Hearts of Fire James Colt
1987 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Bayardo San Román
1990 The Comfort of Strangers Colin
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
1998 B. Monkey

Paul Neville

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 / "Ernest"
2002 The Wild Thornberrys Movie Sloan Blackburn
2003 Unconditional Love Dirk S.
2004 Stage Beauty King Charles II
Shrek 2 Prince Charming voice role
A Different Loyalty Leo Cauffield
2005 Separate Lies Bill Bule
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Fox voice role
2007 Stardust Secundus
Shrek the Third Prince Charming voice role
St. Trinian´s Headmistress Camilla Fritton/Carnaby Fritton

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NAME Everett, Rupert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Everett, Rupert James Hector
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959-5-29
PLACE OF BIRTH Norfolk, England
DATE OF DEATH
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