Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is an English actor, writer and singer. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film Another Country as a gay pupil at an English public school. Everett has performed in many other prominent films, including The Madness of King George, Shakespeare in Love, Inspector Gadget, The Next Best Thing, Shrek 2 and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is an English actor, writer and singer. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film Another Country as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s. Everett has performed in many other prominent films, including The Madness of King George, Shakespeare in Love, Inspector Gadget, The Next Best Thing, Shrek 2 and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In 1989, Everett moved to Paris, writing a novel, Hello, Darling, Are You Working?, and coming out as gay, a disclosure which he has said may well have damaged his career. In 2006 Everett published a memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, in which he reveals his six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates. He has been a Vanity Fair contributing editor for 21st century, and has written a film on playwright Oscar Wilde’s final years. He is sometimes described as bisexual, opposed to homosexual, during a radio show with Jonathan Ross: he described his adventurousness as heterosexualness as a result of his bisexuality. Everett is of English, Irish, Scottish, and more distant German and Dutch, ancestry. He was raised a Roman Catholic. From age seven, Everett was educated at Farleigh School in Andover, Hampshire, and later educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire.
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. His first film was the Academy Award-winning short A Shocking Accident, directed by James Scott and based on a Graham Greene story. This was followed by a film version of Another country in 1984 with Cary Elwes and Colin Firth. Everett recorded and released an album of pop songs entitled Generation of Loneliness. Despite being managed by Simon Napier-Bell, the public didn’t take to his change in direction. The shift was short-lived, and he only returned to pop indirectly by providing backing vocals for Madonna many years later, on her cover of \”American Pie\” and on Robbie Williams’ Swing When You’re Winning in 2001. Everett, in turn, appeared in Cemetery Man, an adaptation of Tiziano Sclavi’s novel Dellamorte Dellamore. He starred as Madonna’s character’s best friend in The next Best Thing. At the same time he starred as the sadistic SanfordDrDr Claw in Disney’s Scooby-Doo. He also wrote a film and wrote a screenplay on Oscar Wilde’s final years, which he sought funding for for which he had sought funding in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1995 he published a second novel, The Hairdressers of St. Tropez. His career was revitalised by his award-winning performance in My Best Friend’s Wedding, playing Julia Roberts’ character’s gay friend.
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