At 17, Rupert 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.
Everett is openly gay, having come out in 1989, and he has said that it has hurt his career. "I just never got a job there [in Hollywood], and I never got a job here, after [coming out]," he said in 2010. "I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career ... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe."
[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)
Expelled from School
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (25-Sep-2016)
Justin and the Knights of Valor (12-Sep-2013) [VOICE]
Parade's End (24-Aug-2012)
Hysteria (15-Sep-2011) · Edmund St. John-Smythe
Wild Target (8-Apr-2010) · Ferguson
St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (18-Dec-2009)
St. Trinian's (10-Dec-2007)
Stardust (9-Aug-2007) · Secundus
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) · Bill Bule
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (26-Dec-2004)
A Different Loyalty (16-May-2004) · Leo Cauffield
People (15-May-2004)
Shrek 2 (15-May-2004) · Prince Charming [VOICE]
Stage Beauty (8-May-2004)
Dangerous Liaisons (23-Aug-2003)
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) · Algy
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) · Paul
My Best Friend's Wedding (20-Jun-1997) · George Downes
Dunston Checks In (12-Jan-1996) · Rutledge
The Madness of King George (28-Dec-1994)
Prêt-à-Porter (25-Dec-1994) · Jack Lowenthal
Dellamorte Dellamore (9-Sep-1994)
Inside Monkey Zetterland (12-Sep-1992)
The Comfort of Strangers (1-Sep-1990)
The Right Hand Man (2-Oct-1987)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (8-May-1987)
Hearts of Fire (1987)
Duet for One (25-Dec-1986)
Dance with a Stranger (1-Mar-1985)
Another Country (May-1984) · Guy Bennett
The Far Pavilions (3-Jan-1984)
Real Life (1984)
Author of books:
Hello Darling, Are You Working? (1992, novel)
The Hairdressers of St. Tropez (1995, novel)
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography (2006, memoir)
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