7 Facts About Rupert Everett

1. In 2008, Rupert Everett purchased a home in the West London district of Belgravia.

2. In 2017 Rupert Everett appeared as a recurring character in the BBC2 comedy Quacks.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. In 1989, Rupert 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.

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