Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett

actor, producer, writer

Rupert Everett was born on May 29, 1959 in UK. Rupert Everett's big-screen debut came with Arthur the King directed by Clive Donner in 1983, strarring Lancelot. Rupert Everett is known for Funny Woman directed by Oliver Parker, Gemma Arterton stars as Barbara Parker and Tom Bateman as Clive Richardson. Rupert Everett has got 14 awards and 30 nominations so far. The most recent award Rupert Everett achieved is London Critics Circle Film Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Rupert Everett plays is Funny Woman - Season 1 which will be released on Feb 09, 2023.

Stylish Rupert James Hector Everett was born on May 29, 1959, in Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, to Sara (Maclean) and Anthony Michael Everett, a Major in the British Army, who later worked in business. Of royal stock, he is of primarily English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry with a dash of German and Dutch thrown in for good measure.Everett grew up in privileged circumstances, but the wry, sometimes arrogant intellectual was a rebel from the very beginning. At the age of seven, 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." He moved from stage to British TV in 1982 with sophisticated appearances on such series as "Strangers" "Play for Today" and "The Agatha Christie Hour" and the more visibly seen mini-series Princesse Daisy (1983) and Pavillons lointains (1984).In 1984, Everett filmed a leading gay role in the acclaimed collegiate-themed picture Another Country: Histoire d'une trahison (1984), which he had performed earlier on stage in 1981. Earning a BAFTA nomination and shooting to international attention, Rupert became one of England's hottest crossover stars. Top patrician roles in quality films came his way such as Dance with a stranger (1985) opposite Miranda Richardson and Duo pour une soliste (1986) starring Julie Andrews and Alan Bates. The rebel went international instead of Hollywood, however, with top-billing in the Aussie feature The Right Hand Man (1987) with Hugo Weaving; the Italian-made Chronique d'une mort annoncée (1987) and the French drama Tolérance (1989) opposite Ugo Tognazzi.Again, however, the wickedly sharp and suave actor doused his own star fire by clashing with the press and even his own fans in the late 1980's. In 1989, Everett openly and proudly declared his homosexuality which put an initial damper on his status as a romantic leading man. Appearing sporadically in such featured roles as the Prince of Wales in the majestic drama La folie du roi George (1994) and Lord Rutledge in the family comedy Mon ami Dunston (1996), Rupert's popularity was re-energized after playing Julia Roberts' gay confidante to droll effect in the box-office comedy hit Le mariage de mon meilleur ami (1997), earning him both BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. He continued to impress thereafter, notably in such classical-styled pieces as Shakespeare in Love (1998) (as Christopher Marlowe), Le songe d'une nuit d'été (1999) (as Oberon), and the Oscar Wilde plays Un mari idéal (1999) (as Lord Goring, Golden Globe nominee) and L'importance d'être constant (2002) (as Algy). On the lighter, fun side, his predilection for mischief was demonstrated as the cartoonish villain Dr. Claw, the nemesis of Matthew Broderick's title character, in Inspecteur Gadget (1999).Into the millennium, Rupert continued to be a vibrant presence on stage with a tour of "Private Lives" (in Italian) in 2008, a 2009 Broadway revival of "Blithe Spirit" (his New York debut) and as Henry Higgins in Shaw's "Pygmalion" in Munich the following year. He went on to play Oscar Wilde in "The Judas Kiss" in 2013 and was about to play George on Broadway in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" when the play closed before it officially opened due to the COVID pandemic in 2020. On TV, he played the effortlessly suave Sherlock Holmes in La revanche de Sherlock Holmes (2004), the Marquis de Feron in the British series The Musketeers (2014) and Carroll Quinn in a second British series Adult Material (2020).On film, Everett enhanced the royal dramas La mort d'un roi (2003) and Stage Beauty (2004) as King Charles I and King Charles II, respectively. Known for his aloof handsomeness and often smug, piss-elegant characters, he engagingly portrayed a jet-setter in the contemporary film People (2004); provided the voice of the unprincely Prince Charming in the animated features Shrek 2 (2004) and Shrek le troisième (2007); played a British defector opposite Sharon Stone in the romantic thriller Secrets d'état (2004); a millionaire playboy involved in a hit-and-run in Separate Lies (2005); an eccentric tycoon in Oh My God! (2011); King George VI (father of Queen Elizabeth) opposite Emily Watson's Queen Mum in the romantic dramedy A Royal Night Out (2015); a monsignor in If I Had a Heart (2013); and tortured gay playwright Oscar Wilde during his last days in The Happy Prince (2018), which he wrote and directed.A novelist on the sly with Hello, Darling, Are You Working? (1989), Rupert has also published two volumes of memoirs: Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (2006) and Vanished Years (2012), produced documentaries .

  • Birthday

    May 29, 1959
  • Place of Birth

    Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, England, UK
  • Also known

    Rupert J. H. Everett, Rupert James H. Everett, Rupert J. Hector Everett, Rupert James Hector Everett

Known For

Awards

14 wins & 30 nominations

London Critics Circle Film Awards
2019
British/Irish Actor of the Year
Winner - ALFS Award
2019
Actor of the Year
Winner - ALFS Award
2019
Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year
Winner - ALFS Award
1998
British Supporting Actor of the Year
Winner - ALFS Award
National Film Awards, UK
2019
Best Actor
Winner - National Film Award
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