Rupert Everett Biography

Rupert Everett (born on May 29, 1959) is an English actor.

Biography

Rupert 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 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, Everett worked as a male prostitute, or "rent boy," as Rupert later admitted to US magazine in 1997. After dropping out of the Central School of Speech and Drama, he traveled to Scotland and got a job in the avant-garde Citizens' Theatre of Glasgow.

Rupert Everett's 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 Rupert 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 Rupert Everett released a second novel, The Hairdresser of St. Tropez.

Rupert 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 also writes for Vanity Fair.

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 a Sclavi's novel, Dellamorte Dellamore.

Film List

• Cinema (selection)
• Another Country (1984) — Guy Bennett (based on the young Guy Burgess)
• Dance with a Stranger (1985) — David Blakeley
• Hearts of Fire (1987) — James Colt
• Dellamorte Dellamore (also known as Cemetery Man, 1994) — Francesco Dellamorte
• The Madness of King George (1994) — Prince of Wales
• My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) — George Downes
• Shakespeare in Love (1998) — Christopher Marlowe
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) — Oberon
• An Ideal Husband (1999) — Lord Goring
• Inspector Gadget — Dr. Claw (1999)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) — Algenon
• Shrek 2 (2004) — Prince Charming (voice)
• Stage Beauty (2004) — King Charles II
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) — Fox (voice)
• Separate Lies (2005) — Bill Bule

TV List

• The Manhood of Edward Robinson (1981) — Guy
• Soft Targets (1982) — Actor
• Princess Daisy (1983) — Ram Valenski
• The Far Pavilions (1984) — George Garforth
• Arthur the King (1985) — Lancelot
• Les Liaisons dangereuses (2003) — Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
• Mr. Ambassador (2003) — Ambassador Ronnie Childers
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) — Sherlock Holmes