The $1,250 Facial
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Daily Beast - Found Mar. 18, 2010 As does Kate Winslet, Madonna, Rupert Everett, and Theodora Richards, who are all regulars, relying on her combo of microdermabrasion, light... |
BBC film on Jeremy Thorpe shelved
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Liberal England - Found Mar. 17, 2010 Last December Rupert Everett told the Evening Standard that he was to play Jeremy Thorpe in a BBC film. Now the Daily Telegraph , at the bottom |
Chichester Festival to Feature Patrick Stewart, Rupert Everett and ...
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Playbill - Found Feb. 14, 2010 Mail, other plans for the annual Chichester summer season include a new production of Pygmalion, starring Rupert Everett as Professor Higgins; |
Rupert Everett's new movie: What a drag!
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Pride Source - Found Jan. 30, 2010 News) As a brainless British farce gung-ho on spreading grrrl-power, 'St. Trinian's' asks a lot of you just to see Rupert Everett in drag. |
Rupert Everett follows up success of St Trinian's jolly
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The Scotsman - Found Dec. 18, 2009 ... in turn were inspired by the cartoons of Ronald Searle, the schoolgirls from hell were resurrected by Rupert Everett in 2007 for St Trinian's... |
Rupert Everett follows up success of St Trinian's jolly
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The Scotsman - Found Dec. 18, 2009 ... in turn were inspired by the cartoons of Ronald Searle, the schoolgirls from hell were resurrected by Rupert Everett in 2007 for St Trinian's... |
End Of Term For St Trinian's Star Rupert Everett?
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Coventry Telegraph - Found Dec. 20, 2009 RUPERT Everett has revealed that he has no plans to appear in the third instalment of St Trinian's. |
Harding Taking Gaga Influences Into Solo Work
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MaleFirst Mens Magazine - Found 10 hours ago ... the St. I'm so excited about going into the studio Trinian's movie sequel alongside Colin Firth and Rupert Everett last year (09), but she's... Coyle: 'I haven't fallen out with Cole' - Digital Spy Sarah Harding Announces Solo Album - MTV UK Nadine Coyle - Coyle Dismisses Girls Aloud Rift Rumours - Contactmusic Sarah excited about going solo - MSN UK Explore All |
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Colin Firth to reunite with Pride and Prejudice star
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Daily Express - Found 14 hours ago For his new movie, Firth (described rather unkindly by Rupert Everett as a ghastly, guitar-playing red-brick socialist) says he put aside his... Firth among equals - New Zealand Herald Explore All |
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Exile from mainstream
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Irish Times - Found Mar. 19, 2010 ... by Rupert Everett, an actual gay man, briefly proclaimed the dawn of a time when openly gay actors might become A-list stars. But Everett never... |
Rupert Everett Biography
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Rupert Everett
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| Rupert Everett | |
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at the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. |
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| Born | Rupert James Hector Everett 29 May 1959 Norfolk, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1982–present |
Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly gay 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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Early life
Everett was born in Norfolk, England to Sara (née MacLean, born 19 September 1934) and Major Anthony Michael Everett (1921–2009),3 who worked in business and served in the British Army. Through his maternal grandparents, Opre Vyvyan and Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald MacLean, he is a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Freiherren (barons) von Schmiedern, as well as a great-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.45 He has a brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett (born 1956).
From the age of seven, Everett was educated at Farleigh School, Hampshire, and later was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, but he left school at 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 1997.6 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
Everett's break came in 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre and later West End production of Another Country, playing a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh, followed by a film version in 1984 with Colin Firth. Following on with 1985's Dance With A Stranger, Everett 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), the public didn't take to his change in direction. The shift was short-lived, 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, Everett moved to Paris, writing a novel, Hello, Darling, Are You Working? and coming out as gay, a move which somewho? at the time perceived as damaging to his career.citation needed 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 revitalised by his award-winning performance in 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
In recent years, Everett has decided to write again. He has been a Vanity Fair contributing editor and wrote a film screenplay on playwright Oscar Wilde's final years, for which he seeks funding.7 In 2006, he published a memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins. In it he revealed he had a six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates.8 "I am mystified by my heterosexual affairs — but then I am mystified by most of my relationships," he wrote.citation needed Although he is sometimes described as bisexual as opposed to homosexual, at a radio show with Jonathan Ross, he described his heterosexual affairs as resulting from adventurousness: "I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything"9 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.citation needed
Since then, Everett 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 has made much news for making shocking comments and remarks at interviews that have caused public outrage.101112131415
In May 2007, he delivered one of the eulogies at the funeral of fashionista Isabella Blow, his friend since they were in their teens.
Everett recently told British newspaper The Observer that he wished he had never come out of the closet as he feels that it hurt his career and advises younger actors not to:
| “ | The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. You're going to manage to make it roll for a certain amount of time, but at the first sign of failure they'll cut you right off... Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.16 | ” |
Recent and upcoming projects
Everett presented the Channel 4 documentary on Romantic poet Lord Byron's travels, broadcast in July 20091718dead link and has a part in the upcoming 2009 comedy film Wild Target, starring Bill Nighy. He recently made his Broadway debut at the Shubert Theatre to good critical review, performing in a Noël Coward play, Blithe Spirit, starring alongside Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole and Jayne Atkinson, directed by Michael Blakemore.1920 He was also expected to tour several Italian cities, during the 2008–2009 winter season in another Noël Coward play, Private Lives (performed in Italian, which he speaks fluently), playing Elyot to Italian actress Asia Argento's Amanda. However, the production has been postponed until the 2009–2010 season and the announcement did not clarify if Everett will still be part of the cast.21
Filmography
Cinema
Television (selection)
- 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
- Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2001) — Host
- Les Liaisons dangereuses (2003) — Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
- Mr. Ambassador (2003) — Ambassador Ronnie Childers
- To Kill a King (2003) — King Charles I
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) — Sherlock Holmes
- Boston Legal (2005) — Malcolm Holmes
- The Friday Night Project (2006) — Guest host, himself
- Comic Relief Does The Apprentice (2007) — Celebrity contestant (walked out during first episode)
- The Friday Night Project (2007) — Guest host
- Katie & Peter: Unleashed (2007) — Celebrity Guest
- The Victorian Sex Explorer 22 (2008) — Presenter
- The Paul O'Grady Show (2009) — Guest
References
- ^ "Actor Everett labels Starbucks a 'cancer'". Dailymail.co.uk. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-401223/Actor-Everett-labels-Starbucks-cancer.html. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
- ^ Rupert Everett ain't got no body – Telegraph
- ^ Rupert Everett's father dies
- ^ "NEHGS – Articles". Newenglandancestors.org. http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_gbr45.asp. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
- ^ "Tudor 7". William1.co.uk. http://www.william1.co.uk/t7.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
- ^ Farndale, Nigel. "The ascent of Everett". Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3577920/The-ascent-of-Everett.html. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
- ^ Everett needs funds for Wilde movie
- ^ Rupert unleashed and unloved | Telegraph
- ^ "Ross apologises for swearing star." BBC News.
- ^ "Listeners shocked by Everett interview". Dailymail.co.uk. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-405435/Listeners-shocked-Everett-interview.html. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
- ^ Rupert's X-rated TV gaffe
- ^ Rupert Everett talks about fingering|BBC Breakfast
- ^ Actor Everett shuns 'blobby, whiny' USA – Herald
- ^ Farndale, Nigel. "Actor Rupert Everett shows his nasty side". Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2091158/Actor-Rupert-Everett-shows-his-nasty-side.html. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
- ^ Rupert Everett apologises for calling soldiers 'wimps'
- ^ http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/03/adam.lambert.abc/index.html
- ^ Everett plays Byron in documentary – Times Series Newspapers
- ^ Lord Byron by Rupert Everett – Turkish Daily News.
- ^ Teodorczuk, Tom. "High spirits as Rupert Everett becomes the ghostly toast of Broadway." Evening Standard. 16 March 2009.
- ^ "Applause for Lansbury in 'Blithe Spirit' on Broadway." Newyorkology.com. 16 March 2009.
- ^ Annullato lo spettacolo "Vite private" – La Riccitelli News
- ^ Victorian Passions Season – Channel 4 (UK)
External links
- Rupert Everett at the Internet Movie Database
- Rupert Everett at the Internet Broadway Database
- Rupert Everett biography and credits at the British Film Institute's Screenonline






















