Rupert Everett's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Graham Norton Show (UK) Rupert Ever… Who Do You Think You Are? (UK) Rupert Ever… The Friday Night Project (UK) Himself - G…

Main Movie Roles 2009 - St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold 2007 - Stardust 2007 - St. Trinian's 2007 - Shrek The Third 2005 - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 - Separate Lies 2004 - A Different Loyalty 2004 - Stage Beauty 2004 - Shrek 2 2003 - To Kill a King 2002 - The Wild Thornberrys Movie 2002 - The Importance of Being Earnest 2000 - The Next Best Thing 1999 - A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999 - An Ideal Husband 1999 - Inspector Gadget 1998 - Shakespeare in Love 1998 - B. Monkey 1997 - My Best Friend's Wedding 1996 - Dunston Checks In 1994 - The Madness of King George 1994 - Prêt-à-porter 1990 - The Comfort of Strangers 1984 - Another Country 1983 - Dead on Time

BIOGRAPHY:

British-born Rupert Everett grew up in privileged circumstances, but the wry, sometimes arrogant intellectual was a rebel from the very beginning. At the age of 7, he was placed into the care of Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College where he trained classically on the piano. He was expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London for clashing with his teachers, and instead apprenticed himself at the avant-garde Glasgow Citizen's Theatre in Scotland, performing in such productions as 'Don Juan' and 'Heartbreak House'.

In 1984, Everett successfully filmed a lead role in, Another Country (1984), which he had performed earlier on stage, and shot to international attention, becoming one of England's hottest new star. But, again, the wickedly sharp and suave rebel doused his own fire by clashing with the press and even with his own fans. In 1989, Everett openly declared his own homosexuality -- an announcement that could have mortally wounded his film career. Instead, over time, it seems to have had the opposite effect. His career revitalized as Julia Roberts (I)' gay confidante in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), and he has continued to impress notably in the classics area with Shakespeare in Love (1998) (as Christopher Marlowe), An Ideal Husband (1999) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) (as Oberon). Lately he has enhanced both films, with his royal portrayals in To Kill a King (2003) and Stage Beauty (2004), and television, with his effortlessly suave Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) (TV). His predilection for smug and smarmy villains of late, such as the cartoonish Dr. Claw in Inspector Gadget (1999) has extended into voice animation with his "unprincely" Prince Charming character in Shrek 2 (2004).

In making his landmark decision to "come out," Rupert becomes a living testament disproving the theory that a truly talented and successful romantic leading man cannot survive the career-killing stigma of being openly gay.


TRIVIA:

• Works out at Crunch Fitness in New York City.
• At his suggestion, 'Madonna' (qv) re-recorded 'Don McLean (I)' (qv)'s classic "American Pie".
• Son of Major Anthony Michael Everett, who worked in business and served in the military, and wife (married 7 May 1955) Sara MacLean (born 19 September 1934), who was Scottish, and descended from the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Schmiedern Barons.
• He was awarded the 1981 London Critics' Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Awards) for Most Promising New Actor of 1980 for his performance in "Another Country".
• He has become an icon in Italy since the late 1980s, mostly because 'Tiziano Sclavi' (qv), the author of the popular comic "Dylan Dog", chose his face for the protagonist. "Dellamorte Dellamore" is based upon a novel by Sclavi as well, so Everett was the natural choice for the Italian audience.
• In _Another Country (1984)_ (qv), Rupert Everett plays "Guy Bennett", a character based on the double agent "Guy Burgess". Everett, however, is related to another of the Cambridge Five, upper-class British diplomats who were Cambridge University men who later secretly spied for the Soviet Union for decades. Everett is the great-nephew of 'Donald Maclean' (qv), who escaped to the Soviet Union in 1951 on his 38th birthday. Maclean was bisexual. (Everett announced in 1989 that he was gay).
• Godfather of 'Madonna' (qv)'s and 'Guy Ritchie' (qv)'s son David.
• In _Stage Beauty (2004)_ (qv), plays King Charles II, the son of King Charles I, whom he played in _To Kill a King (2003)_ (qv). They are both his ancestors.