Rupert Everett

At 64 years old, Rupert Everett has this physical status:

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

He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination.

He went on to receive a second BAFTA Award nomination and his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), followed by a second Golden Globe nomination for An Ideal Husband (1999). Everett has performed in many other prominent films, including The Madness of King George (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Inspector Gadget (1999), The Next Best Thing (2000), Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004), Shrek 2 (2004), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Stardust (2007), Shrek the Third (2007), Wild Target (2010) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).

Early life and education

Rupert James Hector Everett was born on 29 May 1959, of wealthy parents. His father was in the British Army, Major Anthony Michael Everett. His maternal grandfather, Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald MacLean DSO, was a nephew of Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean. His maternal grandmother, Opre Vyvyan, was a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Freiherr (Baron) von Schmiedern. Everett is of English, Irish, Scottish, and more distant German and Dutch ancestry. He was raised a Roman Catholic.

From the age of seven, Everett was educated at Farleigh School in Andover, Hampshire, and later educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire. When he was sixteen, his parents agreed that he could leave school and move to London to train as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He claims that in order to support himself during this time, he worked as a prostitute for drugs and money—he disclosed this information in an interview for US magazine in 1997.

Personal life

Between 2006 and 2010, Everett lived in New York City, but returned to London because of his father's poor health. In 2008, he purchased a home in the Central London district of Belgravia.

As of 2020, Everett lives with his boyfriend Henrique, a Brazilian accountant.

Everett is a patron of the British Monarchists Society and Foundation.

In 2006, as a homeowner in the central London area of Bloomsbury, Everett supported a campaign to prevent the establishment of a local Starbucks branch and referred to the global chain as a "cancer". Everett protested alongside 1,000 other residents and the group compiled a signed petition.

In 2013, Everett worked on the production of a documentary on sex work for Channel 4 that includes the issue of criminalisation. During and after the filming of the documentary, Everett contributed to the discourse on prostitution legislation in the UK. In October 2013, he signed an open letter by the English Collective of Prostitutes and Queer Strike—alongside groups such as the Association of Trade Union Councils, Sex Worker Open University, Left Front Art – Radical Progressive Queers, Queer Resistance, and Queers Against the Cuts—to oppose the adoption of the "Swedish model", whereby the clients of sex workers (though not the sex workers themselves) are criminalised.

Everett continued his participation in the sex work legislation debate in 2014, writing a long-form piece for The Guardian and appearing on the BBC One programme This Week. His January Guardian article was published in the wake of human trafficking raids in the Soho area of London, where he wrote:

Everett also joined protesters in a demonstration outside the offices of Soho Estates, a major property company that owns properties on Soho's Walkers Court, where many sex workers are based. Everett informs the reader that Soho Estates received approval to demolish properties on Walkers Court to create space for the construction of "two hideous towers replete with heliports". Everett concludes the article by declaring that Soho is "being reduced to a giant waxwork in a museum, nothing more than the set for a foreign film."

In his appearance on BBC One's This Week, Everett engaged in a debate with regular panellists Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott. Portillo agreed with Everett, while Abbott supported the Swedish model.

Despite being an openly gay man, Everett does not consider himself part of the gay community and has been an outspoken critic of the introduction of same-sex marriage, stating: "I loathe heterosexual weddings. The wedding cake, the party, the champagne, the inevitable divorce two years later. It's just a waste of time in the heterosexual world, and in the homosexual world I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster." Everett has also disclosed that he identified as transgender during his childhood and dressed as a girl from the age of six to fourteen. When he turned fifteen, he ceased to identify as female and embraced his identity as a gay man. He has expressed opposition to the use of hormones on children, citing that parents who offer the possibility of such a transition to their children are "scary".

He was a supporter of a People's Vote on the final Brexit deal.

Everett expressed his opposition to cancel culture in a 2020 interview with The Advocate, stating “we’re in such a weird new world, a kind of Stasi it feels like to me, and if you don’t reflect exactly the right attitude, you risk everything just being destroyed for you by this judgmental, sanctimonious, intransigent, intractable, invisible cauldron of hags around in the virtual world.”

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Career

Everett's first appearance at the Greenwich Theatre and later in the West End production of Another Country portrayed a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh.

A Shocking Accident (1982), directed by James Scott and based on a Graham Greene story, was his first film. In 1984, Cary Elwes and Colin Firth appeared in a film version of Another Country. Everett, who appeared on Dance With A Stranger (1985), began to develop a promising film career before co-starring Bob Dylan in the massive flop Hearts of Fire (1987). Everett recorded and released Generation of Loneliness, a pop song from the same time.

Despite being steered by Simon Napier-Bell (who had steered Wham)! The public didn't react well to his new direction (the media was on alert). The change was brief, and Madonna's voice on "American Pie" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me" on Robbie Williams' Swing When You Win In 2001, he was won, but he returned to pop indirectly by providing back-up vocals for Madonna.

Everett moved to Paris in 1989, writing a book titled Hello, Darling, Are You Working? and coming out as gay, a revelation that hasn't helped him. Many films of varying success followed, including returning to the public eye in The Comfort of Strangers (1990). Dylan Dog, an Italian comics character, was inspired by him. Everett appeared in Cemetery Man (1994), a Sclavi-designed adaptation of Sclavi's book Dellamore. Everett published The Hairdressers of St. Tropez, a second book in 1995.

His career was revived after his nomination-winning appearance in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), playing Julia Roberts' character's gay friend, as well as a role in Madonna's character's best friend in The Next Best Thing (2000). (Everett was a backup vocalist on her cover of "American Pie" (which is on the film's soundtrack). He starred as the sadistic Sanford Scolex/Dr. at the same time. Inspector Gadget (also 1999) with Matthew Broderick has a Claw.

Everett has returned to write again for the 21st century. He has been a contributing editor to The Guardian and penned a film script about playwright Oscar Wilde's last years, which he requested for.

Everett's memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, in which he details his six-year relationship with British television presenter Paula Yates, appeared. During a radio show with Jonathan Ross, although he is often described as bisexual rather than gay, he spoke out about his heterosexual experiences as the result of youthful curiosity: "I'm basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything."

Everett has been involved in public service (leading the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; as a contestant in the special Comic Relief Does The Apprentice; and as a guest host on Channel 4's The Friday Night Project, among other things), and as a contestant (as a contestant). During interviews that have sparked a lot of national attention, he has also earned media attention for his vitriolic quips and forthright positions.

He gave one of the eulogies at the funeral of fashion designer Isabella Blow's friend, who had died by suicide in May 2007. "Have you gotten what you wanted, Issie?" He asked as part of his address: "Have you gotten what you wanted, Issie?" "You didn't know that life was a journey you had in mind." In the first two Shrek sequels, he also spoke to nefarious, but charming villain Prince Charming.

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), in which he traces Burton's travels through countries like India and Egypt, appeared on the BBC in 2008. Everett's book The Victorian Sex Explorer explores a man who discovered a male brothel frequented by British troops in Bombay disguised; who introduced The Koran, One Thousand And One Nights, and the Kama Sutra in their first English translations; and was able to converse in more than 20 languages; and even disguised as an Arab; and in disguised as an Arab. "I've been interested in him for years," Everett said in 2008. There are so many inconsistencies. Such a vivacious, show business person. The "godfather of the sexual revolution" was named by the founder of the "civic revolution."

Everett told British newspaper The Observer that he regretted his sexuality because it was affecting his work and discouraged younger actors from speaking out against such openness in 2009:

Both in 2009 and another on British explorer Sir Richard Burton appeared on Channel 4 documentaries: one on Lord Byron's travels and another on British explorer Sir Richard Burton.

Everett returned to his acting roots in 2009 at the Shubert Theatre, where he appeared in several theatre productions; he appeared in a No.l Coward play, Blithe Spirit, starring Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole, and Jayne Atkinson, under Michael Blakemore's direction. During the 2008–09 winter season, he was supposed to tour many Italian cities (performed in Italian, which he speaks fluently)—playing Elyot to Amanda Argento of Italy—but the project was postponed.

Everett appeared in a revival of Pygmalion at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2010. Honeysuckle Weeks and Stephanie Cole performed as Professor Henry Higgins. In May 2011, he reprised his role in London's West End, starring Diana Rigg and Kara Tointon.

Everett appeared in the famous family history show Who Do You Think You Are? in July 2010, Everett was highlighted. Everett was portrayed as an art-loving gangster in late 2010, and Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt appeared in the comedy film Wild Target, which was released in late 2010.

Everett appeared in the television version of Parade's End with Benedict Cumberbatch in 2012. Sir Tom Stoppard's five-part drama was adapted from Ford Madox Ford's books, and Everett appears as the brother of protagonist Christopher Tietjens.

Everett appeared in The Judas Kiss, a stage play that was revived at London's Hampstead Theatre beginning 6 September 2012, co-starring Bosie and directed by Neil Armfield. It ran at the Hampstead from October 13th to Dublin, then toured the United Kingdom and Dublin, before transferring to the Duke of York's Theatre on January 9th, 2013 in a limited run until 6 April 2013.

Everett received the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Play, and he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor. In 2016, the production, which included Everett and Charlie Rowe as Bosie, lasted in North America for seven weeks in Toronto and five weeks at BAM in New York City.

Everett explained in November 2013:

Everett's sequel, The Happy Prince, was released in 2018.

In the third series of BBC One drama The Musketeers, Philippe Achille, Marquis de Feron, the deceitful Governor of Paris, head of the Red Guard, and illegitimate brother to Louis XIII was revealed in 2015.

Everett appeared in BBC Two comedy Quacks as a recurring character. He plays Dr Hendricks, the medical school's neurotic principal.

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