34 Facts About Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett 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; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination.

Rupert Everett received a second BAFTA nomination and his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in My Best Friend's Wedding, followed by a second Golden Globe nomination for An Ideal Husband.

Rupert Everett voiced Prince Charming in the animated films Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third.

Rupert James Hector Everett was born on 29 May 1959, to wealthy parents.

Rupert Everett's father was in the British Army, Major Anthony Michael Everett.

Rupert Everett's maternal grandfather, Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald MacLean DSO, was a nephew of Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean.

Rupert Everett's maternal grandmother, Opre Vyvyan, was a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German von Schmiedern.

From age seven, Rupert Everett was educated at Farleigh School in Andover, Hampshire, and later educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire.

Rupert 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.

Around the same time, Rupert Everett recorded and released an album of pop songs entitled Generation of Loneliness.

Rupert Everett, in turn, appeared in Cemetery Man, an adaptation of Sclavi's novel Dellamorte Dellamore.

In 1995 Rupert Everett published a second novel, The Hairdressers of St Tropez.

Rupert Everett's career was revitalised by his award-winning performance in My Best Friend's Wedding, playing Julia Roberts's character's gay friend, followed by a role as Madonna's character's gay best friend in The Next Best Thing.

Rupert Everett has been a Vanity Fair contributing editor, written for The Guardian, and he wrote a film screenplay on playwright Oscar Wilde's final years, for which he sought funding.

In 2006, Rupert Everett published a memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, in which he reveals his six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates.

Rupert Everett has garnered media attention for his vitriolic quips and forthright opinions during interviews that have caused public outrage.

In 2009, Rupert Everett suggested, in an interview with the British newspaper The Observer, that coming out was not the best career move for a young actor.

Also in 2009, Rupert Everett presented two Channel 4 documentaries: one on the travels of Lord Byron, the Romantic poet, broadcast in July 2009, and another on British explorer Sir Richard Burton.

Rupert Everett then returned to his acting roots, appearing in several theatre productions: his Broadway debut in 2009 at the Shubert Theatre received positive critical reviews; he performed in a Noel Coward play Blithe Spirit, starring alongside Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole and Jayne Atkinson, under the direction of Michael Blakemore.

Rupert Everett reprised the role in May 2011 at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End, starring alongside Diana Rigg and Kara Tointon.

In 2012, Rupert Everett starred in the television adaptation of Parade's End with Benedict Cumberbatch.

The five-part drama was adapted by Sir Tom Stoppard from the novels of Ford Madox Ford, and Rupert Everett appears as the brother of protagonist Christopher Tietjens.

Rupert Everett then starred as Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss, a stage play which was revived at London's Hampstead Theatre beginning 6 September 2012, co-starring Freddie Fox as Bosie, and directed by Neil Armfield.

Rupert Everett won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Play, and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor.

In early 2013, Rupert Everett began working on a film portraying the final period of Wilde's life, stating in the media that he has had a fascination with the playwright since he was a child, as his mother read him Wilde's children's story The Happy Prince before he slept.

The subsequent film The Happy Prince, written and directed by Rupert Everett, was released in 2018.

In 2017, Rupert Everett appeared as a recurring character in the BBC 2 comedy Quacks.

Rupert Everett plays Dr Hendricks, the neurotic principal of the medical school.

Between 2006 and 2010, Rupert Everett lived in New York City, but returned to London because of his father's poor health.

Rupert Everett was a patron of the British Monarchist Society and Foundation.

Rupert Everett protested with 1,000 other residents, and the group compiled a petition.

Rupert Everett has disclosed that he identified as transgender during his childhood and dressed as a girl from age six to 14.

Rupert Everett has expressed opposition to the use of hormones on children, saying that parents who offered the possibility of such a transition to their children were "scary".

Rupert Everett expressed his opposition to cancel culture in a 2020 interview with The Advocate.