“In Oscar, there’s both the intellectual and the emotional. But, at this stage of his life, he’s living on what’s left of his emotions, and that’s where Rupert wins.”
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Rupert Everett
Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination. He received a second BAFTA nomination and his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in My Best Friend…
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Born 29 May 1959 · Q208685
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I was thinking about things in the same vein: something slightly sexual, slightly outrageous, slightly historical. I thought it would be a challenge to see if you could bring poetry alive.
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2026· 14 entries
“Nobody force me to do this work!”
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“s doing at the time of doing it.”
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“I was thinking about things in the same vein: something slightly sexual, slightly outrageous, slightly historical. I thought it would be a challenge to see if you could bring poetry alive.”
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“The thing about David Cameron.”
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“s undeniable is that so much of his life has been informed by his sexuality, not just the roles that he has and hasn”
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“s not as if he tries particularly hard to be extra diplomatic with me because of it. Almost the reverse. But then what has he got left to lose? He”
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“Posh actor Rupert Everett has branded British soldiers”
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“s certainly noticeable that the greatest one from Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins concerned another dead (and therefore non-litigious) celebrity, Paula Yates, with whom he had a six-year affair. They met after she and Bob came to see the stage play of Another Country one night. And”
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“think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads”
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Public attention spiked: 8,195 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 2,250, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 10,767 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.8× the usual 2,250, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “‘I felt I could smash my past up through sex’: the ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: ‘I felt I could smash my past up through sex’: the ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett
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Public attention spiked: 6,816 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3× the usual 2,250, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 4 entries
The Guardian: An ale star cast: pint-pulling Rupert Everett surprises country pub’s punters
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Noted that his views had shifted rightward in response to mass immigration, taxation rises, and constitutional policies instituted by both Labour and Conservative governments since 1997
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By 2025, Everett was living near Enford, Wiltshire, to be closer to family; there, he was involved in a campaign to prevent the closure of a local pub.
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Criticised what he termed "Cinematic Wokery" and the emergence of a more "puritanical" environment in "the world of entertainment": "we've got into a world where everybody's so easily offended by anything[
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: The American No by Rupert Everett review – blackly comic short stories
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The Guardian: The American No by Rupert Everett review – truthful, witty, wise and stoical
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: A Voyage Round My Father review – Rupert Everett brings soft focus to John Mortimer’s play
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2020· 5 entries
The Guardian: To the End of the World by Rupert Everett review – witty memoir of a Wilde life
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The Guardian: To the End of the World by Rupert Everett review – a delightful writer on modern fame
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The Guardian: Rush review – Rupert Everett searches for the meaning of monogamy
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The Guardian: Rupert Everett tells of Brexit ‘friction’ at home with mother
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By 2020, Everett was living with his partner Henrique, a Brazilian accountant; they married in 2024.
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2017· 1 entry
Everett appeared as a recurring character in the BBC 2 comedy Quacks
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2016· 2 entries
To hormone replacement therapy for children and thought it "scary" that some parents offered their offspring the opportunity of gender transition
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The production, still starring Everett and with Charlie Rowe as Bosie, ran in North America for seven weeks in Toronto and five weeks at BAM in New York City
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2015· 1 entry
It was announced that he would play the part of Philippe Achille, Marquis de Feron, the corrupt Governor of Paris, Head of the Red Guard and illegitimate brother to Louis XIII in the third series of the BBC One drama The
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2014· 1 entry
Wrote a long-form article on the issue for The Guardian and discussed it on BBC One programme This Week
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2013· 1 entry
Worked on a documentary about sex work for Channel 4
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2012· 2 entries
Everett expressed criticism of same-sex marriage
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Everett starred in the television adaptation of Parade's End with Benedict Cumberbatch
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2009· 3 entries
Everett suggested, in an interview with the British newspaper The Observer, that coming out was not the best career move for a young actor
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At the Shubert Theatre received positive critical reviews; he performed in a Noël Coward play Blithe Spirit, starring alongside Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole and Jayne Atkinson, under the direction of Michael Blake
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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
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2008· 1 entry
Bought a home in another Central London district, Belgravia
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2006· 1 entry
Everett published a memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, in which he reveals his six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates
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1997· 1 entry
Said that he supported himself during this period by doing sex work for drugs and money
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1995· 1 entry
Everett published a second novel, The Hairdressers of St
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1989· 1 entry
Everett moved to Paris, writing a novel, Hello, Darling, Are You Working
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1982· 1 entry
Had an early screen role in "The Manhood of Edward Robinson", a play in The Agatha Christie Hour series
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1981· 2 entries
At the Greenwich Theatre and later West End production of Another Country, playing a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh
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When he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-05-29.
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