| Rupert Everett  Born: 29-May-1959
Birthplace: Norfolk, England
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay [1]
Occupation: Actor Nationality: England
Executive summary: My Best Friend's Wedding Rupert Everett is the first Hollywood movie star to have a long, mainstream, and successful acting career while being openly gay, and blasé about it. At 17, Everett joined the campy, avant-garde Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow. He later did some modeling work, including an ad campaign for Yves St Laurent's Opium aftershave. He worked as a prostitute for two years. In the 1980s he tried music, but his debut record Generation of Loneliness didn't make him a rock star. He had small roles in film and television prior to Another Country in 1984, but for many years the success of that film was the high point of Everett's résumé. As a struggling actor in Hollywood, Everett once shared an apartment with the equally unknown Eric Stoltz and James Spader. His 1997 turn as Julia Roberts' charming gay pal in My Best Friend's Wedding introduced Everett to a wide audience.
He has played gay and straight, including sex scenes with Miranda Richardson in Dance With A Stranger and Natasha Richardson in The Comfort of Strangers. He voiced Prince Charming in the Shrek cartoons, and narrated Paragraph 175, a documentary about the Nazi persecution of gays. Everett has bludgeoned the rising dead in Cemetary Man, and done Oscar Wilde in An Ideal Husband and The Importance Of Being Ernest. He has played a dithering Prince of Wales in The Madness of King George, Christopher Marlowe in Shakespeare in Love, the evil Dr. Claw in Inspector Gadget, and Madonna's charming gay pal in The Next Best Thing. He also sang background vocals on Madonna's re-do of "American Pie," and is, in real life, her charming gay pal.
He is the author of two novels, Hello Darling, Are You Working? and The Hairdressers of St. Tropez. He has also written a screenplay called Martha and Arthur, about a closeted Hollywood star who marries another star to hide the truth. Touchstone Pictures has purchased the script, but unsurprisingly, it has languished in pre-production for several years.
[1] Stephen M. Engel, The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement (2001), page 94. Also, Sean Kennedy, "Sad, But True, Hollywood Story", Salon.com, 1 February 2007, reviewing his memoir: "Indeed, in all of its 406 pages, the book doesn't even mention the fact that the author came out (in a press interview) in 1989 -- presumably the single most important moment in his professional life. Nor does it dwell, for that matter, on his actual relationships with men, at one point summing up years of romantic experience with the throwaway line, "I had affairs with a volleyball player, an actor, and a hooker."
Father: Anthony Everett (businessman)
Mother: Sarah Everett
University: Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England (expelled)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
St. Trinian's (10-Dec-2007)
Stardust (9-Aug-2007)
Shrek the Third (17-May-2007) [VOICE]
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (8-Dec-2005) [VOICE]
Separate Lies (16-Sep-2005)
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (26-Dec-2004)
A Different Loyalty (16-May-2004)
People (15-May-2004)
Shrek 2 (15-May-2004) [VOICE]
Stage Beauty (08-May-2004)
To Kill a King (15-May-2003)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (8-Sep-2002) [VOICE]
Unconditional Love (23-Aug-2002)
The Importance of Being Earnest (17-May-2002)
South Kensington (17-Dec-2001)
The Next Best Thing (3-Mar-2000)
Paragraph 175 (22-Jan-2000) Narrator [VOICE]
Inspector Gadget (18-Jul-1999)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (26-Apr-1999)
An Ideal Husband (16-Apr-1999)
B. Monkey (7-Nov-1998)
My Best Friend's Wedding (20-Jun-1997)
Dunston Checks In (12-Jan-1996)
The Madness of King George (28-Dec-1994)
Prêt-à-Porter (25-Dec-1994)
Dellamorte Dellamore (9-Sep-1994)
Inside Monkey Zetterland (12-Sep-1992)
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (8-May-1987)
Hearts of Fire (1987)
Duet for One (Nov-1986)
Dance with a Stranger (1-Mar-1985)
Another Country (May-1984)
The Far Pavilions (3-Jan-1984)
Author of books:
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography (2007, memoir)
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