Rupert James Hector Everett is a two-time Golden Globe-nominated English film actor, author and former 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 appeared in many other films with mostly major roles, including My Best Friend's Wedding, The Next Best Thing and the Shrek sequels.
He boarded at Farleigh House prep school in Basingstoke from the age of seven before going to Ampleforth College, the prestigious Roman Catholic public school in Yorkshire at thirteen, but dropped out at age 16.
Turned down the Daniel Day-Lewis role in A Room with a View .
1999 VH1 Vogue Fashion Award for most fashionable male celebrity.
At his suggestion, Madonna re-recorded Don McLean s classic "American Pie".
Was expelled from Londons Central School of Speech and Drama for insubordination.
Plays the piano and violin.
Former, successful model in Milan.
Speaks English, French and Italian.
Lives in London, New York City, Paris and Miami.
Owns a Black Lab, named Moise.
(May 1999) Bought a home in Los Angeles, California for his dogs sake. His Black Lab, Moise, was suffering from painful arthritis, so the actor relocated to the city in order for his beloved pet to heal. Everett even turned down a role on the London stage, because it meant having to have his dog quarantined for six months.
Showed his musical talents on two remakes: singing backup on Madonna s remake of "American Pie" and by dueting with British pop star Robbie Williams on a version of the classic "They Cant Take That Away from Me".
He has become an icon in Italy since the late 1980s, mostly because Tiziano Sclavi , 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.
He was awarded the 1981 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Awards) for Most Promising New Actor of 1980 for his performance in the play, "Another Country".
Attended the wedding of Joan Collins and Percy Gibson.
In Stage Beauty , plays King Charles II, the son of King Charles I, whom he played in To Kill a King . They are both his ancestors.
In the Independent on Sunday [UK] 2006 Pink LIst - a list of the most influential gay men and women - Everett came in at #71, down from #50.
He is the favorite actor of actress Amber Benson.
Works out at Crunch Fitness in New York City.
Has an older brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett (b. 1956).
He is the 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). His ancestry includes English, Scottish, Irish, and small amounts of German and Dutch. He is descended from the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Schmiedern Barons.
Is a descendant of Charles II Stuart, King of England and Scotland, and through him a distant relative of Rachael Stirling.
In Another Country , Rupert Everett plays "Guy Bennett", a character based on the double agent Guy Burgess. However, Everett 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 , who escaped to the Soviet Union in 1951 on his 38th birthday. Maclean was bisexual..
Godfather of Madonna s and Guy Ritchie s son David.
Has portrayed Kings, or future Kings, of England on three occasions in film, Charles I in To Kill a King ; Charles II in Stage Beauty ; and George, Prince of Wales, the Prince Regent (later George IV) in The Madness of King George . Everett is related by blood to all three of the Kings he has portrayed, directly descended from Charles I and Charles II, and indirectly, or more distantly, to George IV.
Filming Wild Target with Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint.
Starring as Charles Condomine in Noel Cowards play "Blithe Spirit" on Broadway
He turned down a role in Fright Night .
He of "The Vortex" in the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson/Josephine Hart and Stagescreen productions at the (University of California) James A. Doolittle Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1991 Drama-Logue Award for Performance.
I have nothing to complain about. . . except maybe people wondering if a,queen like me can butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
I think Elton has lost it completely. He loves to tell you how he,overcame addictions - drugs, bulimia. . . He did not overcome addictions.
He went from one to another. . . All these shopping sprees, and not,controlling his mouth.
One of the great things about getting older is that unemployment becomes,more and more fun.
One of the first memories in my life is of having four records at home,when I was a baby. One was My Fair Lady, the musical version of,Pygmalion. But the film, I think, is one of the great overrated films.
[on Another Country (1984) and,Dance with a Stranger (1985) ] My first two movies were classics.
I should probably have died in a crash if I had been at all serious,about my career.
[on Another Country (1984) ] The best-made film of my career.
Hearts of Fire (1987) was the full-on, no-survivors crash of my,career.
[on Unconditional Love (2002) ] One of the best movies I have ever,done.
