Biography
A tall, slender British actor with dark matinee idol looks, Rupert Everett was one of the few movie stars in Hollywood to maintain a long and successful mainstream acting career while being openly gay. A former model for Yves St. Laurent, Everett first made his mark on stage in 1982 by playing a character loosely based on the notorious spy, Guy Burgess, in Julian Mitchell's play, "Another Country." Though well received, Everett's performance …
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Career Milestones
| Attended boarding schools; dropped out at age 15 to pursue theater studies | ||
| Moved to Milan and briefly worked as a model | ||
| Raised in England | ||
| While a struggling actor in the early 1980s, worked as a male prostitute | ||
1976 | Asked to leave Central School of Speech and Drama in his second year due to insubordination | |
1978 | Made stage debut at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre with a walk-on role in "Don Juan" | |
1982 | Breakthrough stage role, playing the lead as Guy Bennett in "Another Country" | |
1982 | Made film debut in the short "A Shocking Accident" | |
1983 | Feature acting debut, played the lead in "Real Life" | |
1983 | Major TV debut, "Princess Daisy" (NBC) | |
1984 | Reprised stage role in the film version of "Another Country" | |
1985 | Appeared as Lancelot in the CBS movie "Arthur the King" (filmed in 1982) | |
1985 | Played romantic role of Miranda Richardson's lover in "Dance With a Stranger" | |
1986 | Cast by Orson Welles to portray Welles as a young man in a film about the staging of "The Cradle Will Rock"; project abandoned when Welles died in 1986 | |
1986 | Worked with his idol Julie Andrews in "Duet for One" | |
1987 | Cast as singer James Colt in "Hearts of Fire"; sang several songs on the film's soundtrack | |
1987 | Starred in film adaptation of "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" | |
1990 | With Natasha Richardson, played a British couple who fall in with an expatriate pair in Venice in "The Comfort of Strangers" | |
1991 | Made American stage acting debut in a Los Angeles production of Noel Coward's "The Vortex" | |
1991 | Published first novel Hello Darling, Are You Working? | |
1994 | Filmed the leading role in Michele Soavi's "Cemetery Man" | |
1994 | Reignited film career with comic turns in Robert Altman's "Ready-to-Wear (Pret-a-Porter)" and Nicholas Hytner's "The Madness of King George" | |
1995 | Played the female lead (in drag) in Tennessee Williams' stage play "The Milk Train Doesn'r Stop Here Anymore" | |
1996 | Acted in a Paris production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" | |
1996 | Appeared in print advertisements for Opium for Men cologne | |
1997 | Won critical praise for his turn as Julia Roberts' gay editor in "My Best Friend's Wedding" | |
1998 | Made cameo appearance as playwright Christopher Marlowe in the Oscar-winning "Shakespeare in Love" | |
1999 | Played Lord Goring in the Oliver Parker-directed film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" | |
1999 | Played the villainous Dr. Claw in the live-action film "Inspector Gadget" opposite Matthew Broderick in the title role | |
1999 | Portrayed Oberon, the king of the fairies in Michael Hoffman's adapation of "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" | |
2000 | Cast as Madonna's gay best friend in "The Next Best Thing"; also sang backup on her cover of "American Pie," which appears on the film's soundtrack | |
2002 | Cast as the lover of a murdered pop star in P. J. Hogan's "Who Shot Victor Fox?" | |
2002 | Re-teamed with director Oliver Parker for the remake of "The Importance of Being Earnest" | |
2004 | Cast as King Charles II in Richard Eyre's adaptation of Jeffrey Hatcher's play "Stage Beauty" | |
2004 | Lent his voice to Prince Charming in the animated feature "Shrek 2" | |
2005 | Cast opposite Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson in Julian Fellowes' directorial debut "Separate Lies" | |
2005 | Voiced the Fox in the adaptation of C.S. Lewis' fantasy classic "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" | |
2007 | Reprised voice role of Prince Charming in "Shrek the Third" | |
2009 | Made Broadway debut in the revival of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" | |
2012 | Played supporting role opposite Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the period comedy "Hysteria" | |
Awards
1984 | BAFTA Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer To Film in Another Country |
1997 | BAFTA Award for Actor In a Supporting Role in My Best Friend's Wedding |
1997 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in My Best Friend's Wedding |
1998 | MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance in My Best Friend's Wedding |
1998 | MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in My Best Friend's Wedding |
1999 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical in An Ideal Husband |
1999 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in Shakespeare in Love |
1999 | Seattle International Film Festival for Best Actor Golden Space Needle Award in An Ideal Husband |