Rupert Everett

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Rupert Everett (2007)

Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959 in Norfolk ) is a British actor and former singer .

He had his first major success in 1984 with the film adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play Another Country , in which he played a homosexual student in England in the 1930s. The production made him known internationally. Since then he has starred in many other films, such as My Best Friend's Wedding and A Friend To Fall In Love With . He also loaned Prince Charming to the Shrek! -Films 2 and 3 his voice.

family

Everett's father, Anthony Michael Everett, was an officer. His mother, Sara Maclean (born September 19, 1934), the daughter of Sir Hector Charles Donald and Lady Opre Vyvyan, is a descendant of the Barons Vyvyan von Trelowarren and the German barons von Schmiedern. She is also the granddaughter of the liberal politician Sir Donald Maclean, who led the parliamentary opposition in Great Britain in the years after the First World War. Everett also has an older brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett (* 1956). Everett is a great-nephew of Donald Maclean , the Soviet double agent and one of the Cambridge Five .

life and career

The officer's son was educated at Ampleforth College , but left school at 15 and went to London to become an actor. He attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London , which he had to leave for disobedience. After their visit, which he financed with prostitution at times , Everett played in various theaters across England, for example at the Citizens' Theater in Glasgow .

1980s

His breakthrough came in 1982 with the West End production of Another Country, in which he played a homosexual schoolboy alongside Kenneth Branagh . The play was followed by a film version with Colin Firth in 1984 . Everett began a promising film career that took a turn when he starred alongside Bob Dylan in the massive Hearts of Fire flop in 1987 . Around the same time, Everett released a pop album called Generation Of Loneliness .

Although the successful producer Simon Napier-Bell , who also managed Marc Bolan and Japan , and the pop band Wham! helped to achieve international fame, supported him and the title song reached the top 40 in the British charts, the audience did not follow this artistic development. Everett's singing career was therefore short-lived. A few years later he took over the backing vocals for his good friend Madonna's song American Pie . In 2001 he also sang They Can't Take That Away from Me in a duet with Robbie Williams for his album Swing When You're Winning .

1990s

In 1989 Everett moved to Paris , turned his back on acting for a while and wrote the novel Hello, Darling, Are You Working? In the same year he came out as homosexual . In 1990 he returned to the screen in the film The Solace of Strangers . Several films of varying success followed. In 1995 he published a second novel, The Hairdresser of St. Tropez . Both novels are strongly autobiographical.

The Italian cartoon character Dylan Dog , created by Tiziano Sclavi , was graphically inspired by Everett. In turn, the British actor later appeared in the film adaptation of a novel based on Sclavi's comic, DellaMorte DellAmore .

Everett's career was revived with My Best Friend's Wedding in 1997 . He earned a lot of praise for portraying the gay George, Julia Roberts ' best friend . It received a Golden Globe nomination, an American Comedy Award, and the Blockbuster Audience Award . In 1999 he played Madonna's homosexual "best friend" in the movie A Friend to Fall in Love with . Since then he has appeared in several well-known films and often played straight leading roles. Everett wrote for Vanity Fair for a while .

Since 2000

On October 10, 2001, Everett hosted the Robbie Williams show Live at the Albert at the Royal Albert Hall . On September 18, 2006, his autobiography was published under the title Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins . Time Warner media company paid him £ 1 million advance payment for his autobiography. In it, Everett tells about his life and his friendships and affairs with various stars of showbiz. For example, he reveals that he had a relationship with Ian McKellen as a student and later had a six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates . “I'm confused by my heterosexual affairs. But actually that applies to almost all of my relationships, ”he said in an article that ended up portraying him as bisexual rather than homosexual. On a radio show with Jonathan Ross , Everett explained his heterosexual affairs as a result of his thirst for adventure: “I was basically adventurous. I think I wanted to try all sorts of things. ”In an interview on This Morning , he simply declared himself homosexual.

In 2007 he led the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras . On July 7th, he presented the Live Earth concert in London. On July 20, 2007, he was a guest on the British television show The Friday Night Project .

His directorial debut was released in 2018 with The Happy Prince . It is a film biography in which the last years of Oscar Wilde's life are presented. Everett himself also took on the lead role.

Everett's German voice actor has been Tom Vogt since my best friend's wedding .

Filmography (selection)

Books

  • Wild weekend in Tangier. (OT: Hello Darling, Are You Working? ) Piper, Munich, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11634-5 .
  • The Hairdresser of St. Tropez. (1995)
  • Red carpets and other banana peels. (OT: Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (Autobiography), 2006) Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-378-00694-2

Nominations

Web links

Commons : Rupert Everett  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nigel Farndale: The ascent of Everett. The Daily Telegraph , May 22, 2002, accessed November 8, 2013 .
  2. ^ Katie Nicholl: Rupert Everett sacked from Vanity Fair after inappropriate comments about its editor. In: Mail Online. Associated Newspapers Ltd, July 26, 2009, accessed November 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ telegraph.co.uk : Nigel Reynolds: £ 1m for kiss-and-tell Everett, May 21, 2005.
  4. ↑ Article ( Memento of December 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on people.monstersandcritics.com
personal data
SURNAME Everett, Rupert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Everett, Rupert James Hector
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Norfolk , England, UK