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

Biography

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

His 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 he 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 he released a second novel, The Hairdresser of St. Tropez.

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 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.

Filmography

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
) — Algy
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

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