Rupert Everett

Rupert James Hector Everett was born on 29 May 1959, to wealthy parents.{{cite web |title=Everett, Rupert (1959— ) Biography |website=BFI Screenonline |date=29 May 1959 |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/865655/index.html |access-date=17 September 2022 |author=Brian McFarlane |agency=Encyclopedia of British Film }} His father was in the British Army, Major Anthony Michael Everett. His maternal grandfather, Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald MacLean DSO, was a nephew of Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1422912/Vice-Admiral-Sir-Hector-MacLean.html |title=Vice Admiral Sir Hector MacLean obituary |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=24 February 2003 }} His maternal grandmother, Opre Vyvyan, was a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German {{lang|de|Freiherr}} (Baron) von Schmiedern. Everett is of English, Irish, Scottish, and more distant German and Dutch ancestry.{{Cite web| url=https://www.thegenealogist.com/featuredarticles/2010/rupert-everetts-roots-90/ |title=Rupert Everett – Who Do You Think You Are – A broad heritage with ancestors in the south and north of England, Wales and Scotland... |website=The Genealogist |year=2010 |access-date=3 September 2016 }} He was raised a Roman Catholic.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3655414/Rupert-unleashed-and-unloved.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3655414/Rupert-unleashed-and-unloved.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Rupert – unleashed and unloved |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=UK |date=2 October 2006 |access-date=11 September 2010 |first=Jan |last=Moir |author-link=Jan Moir }}{{cbignore}}

From age seven, Everett was educated at Farleigh School in Andover, Hampshire, and later educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire. When he was 16, his parents agreed that he could leave school and move to London to train as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. In an interview with US magazine in 1997, he said that he supported himself during this period by doing sex work for drugs and money.{{cite news |last=Farndale |first=Nigel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3577920/The-ascent-of-Everett.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3577920/The-ascent-of-Everett.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=The ascent of Everett |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=UK |date= 22 May 2002|access-date=15 December 2008 }}{{cbignore}}

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.{{cite news | url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D03E2DD1539F93AA15755C0A962948260 | work= The New York Times| title= The Screen: 'Another Country' |last= Canby | first= Vincent | date= 29 June 1984| accessdate= 18 March 2023}}

His first film was the Academy Award-winning short A Shocking Accident (1982), directed by James Scott and based on a Graham Greene story. This was followed by a film version of Another Country in 1984 with Cary Elwes and Colin Firth. Following on with Dance With a Stranger (1985), Everett began to develop a promising film career until he co-starred with Bob Dylan in the unsuccessful Hearts of Fire (1987). Around the same time, Everett recorded and released an album of pop songs entitled Generation of Loneliness.

Despite being managed by Simon Napier-Bell (who had steered Wham! to prominence), the public didn't take to his change in direction. The shift was short-lived, and he only returned to pop indirectly by providing backing vocals for Madonna many years later, on her cover of "American Pie" and on the track "They Can't Take That Away from Me" on Robbie Williams' Swing When You're Winning in 2001.

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In 1989, 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.{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/nov/29/rupert-everett-madonna-carole-cadwalladr | first= Carole | last= Cadwalladr | work = The Guardian | date= 29 November 2009| accessdate = 18 March 2023| title = I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out.}} Returning to the public eye in The Comfort of Strangers (1990), several films of variable success followed. The Italian comics character Dylan Dog, created by Tiziano Sclavi in 1986, is graphically inspired by him. Everett, in turn, appeared in Cemetery Man (1994), an adaptation of Sclavi's novel Dellamorte Dellamore. In 1995 Everett published a second novel, The Hairdressers of St. Tropez.

His career was revitalised by his award-winning performance in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), 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 (2000). (Everett was a backup vocalist on her cover of "American Pie", which is on the film's soundtrack.) Around the same time, he starred as the sadistic Sanford Scolex/Dr. Claw in Disney's Inspector Gadget (also 1999) with Matthew Broderick.

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For the 21st century, Everett decided to write again. He 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.{{cite web| url= http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a94038/everett-needs-funds-for-wilde-movie.html|title=Everett needs funds for Wilde movie |work=Digital Spy |date=17 April 2008 |access-date=24 August 2011}}{{cite news| url= http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-rupert-everett-oscar-wilde-327201 |title=Cannes 2012: Rupert Everett to Make Directorial Debut With Oscar Wilde Biopic |work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=29 May 2012 |date=21 May 2012}}

In 2006, Everett published a memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, in which he reveals his six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates.{{cite news| first=Jan | last= Moir |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3655414/Rupert---unleashed-and-unloved.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090711201400/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3655414/Rupert---unleashed-and-unloved.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 July 2009 |title= Rupert unleashed and unloved |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=2 October 2006 |access-date= 24 August 2011}} Although he is sometimes described as bisexual, as opposed to gay, during a radio show with Jonathan Ross, he described his heterosexual affairs as the result of adventurousness: "I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything".{{cite news | url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5352284.stm | title= Ross apologises for swearing star| publisher= BBC| date = 16 September 2006| accessdate = 18 March 2023}}

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Since the revelation of his sexuality, Everett has participated in public activities (leading the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras), played a double role in the film St. Trinian's, and has appeared on TV several times (as a contestant in the special Comic Relief Does The Apprentice; as a presenter for Live Earth; and as a guest host on the Channel 4 show The Friday Night Project, among others). He has also garnered media attention for his vitriolic quips and forthright opinions during interviews that have caused public outrage.{{cite web| first = Vicky | last = Shaw |url= http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/actor-everett-shuns-blobby-whiny-usa-1396556.html |title=Actor Everett shuns 'blobby, whiny' USA | date= 3 June 2008 | work = Herald.ie |access-date=24 August 2011}}{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2099885/Rupert-Everett-apologises-for-calling-soldiers-%27wimps%27.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080610175350/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2099885/Rupert-Everett-apologises-for-calling-soldiers-%27wimps%27.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 June 2008 |title=Rupert Everett apologises for calling soldiers 'wimps' |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 June 2008 |access-date=24 August 2011 |first= Stephen |last=Adams}}

In May 2007, he delivered one of the eulogies at the funeral of fashion director Isabella Blow, his friend since they were teenagers, who had died by suicide. He asked as part of his speech: "Have you gotten what you wanted, Issie? Life was a relationship that you rejected."{{cite web| title=The Sad Hatter| url= http://nymag.com/news/features/34732/index5.html|work=New York| publisher= New York Media LLC| access-date=13 March 2014| first=Amy | last= Larocca|date=15 July 2007}} During this time he also voiced the nefarious, but handsome villain Prince Charming in the first two Shrek sequels.

Everett's documentary entitled The Victorian Sex Explorer on Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) in which he retraces the travels of Burton through countries such as India and Egypt, aired on the BBC in 2008.{{cite news|title=Actor Rupert Everett shows his nasty side| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2091158/Actor-Rupert-Everett-shows-his-nasty-side.html |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2091158/Actor-Rupert-Everett-shows-his-nasty-side.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status= live| access-date=13 March 2014| work = The Telegraph|date=7 June 2008| first=Nigel | last=Farndale}}{{cbignore}} In 2009, Everett suggested, in an interview with the British newspaper The Observer, that coming out was not the best career move for a young actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/nov/29/rupert-everett-madonna-carole-cadwalladr |title=I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out |work=The Observer |date=29 November 2009 |first=Carole |last=Cadwalladr |accessdate=22 October 2023}}

Also in 2009, Everett presented two Channel 4 documentaries: one on the travels of Lord Byron, the Romantic poet, broadcast in July 2009,{{cite web |url=http://www.times-series.co.uk/uk_national_entertainment/3744876.Everett_plays_Byron_in_documentary/ |title=Everett plays Byron in documentary |work=Times-series.co.uk |date=9 October 2008 |access-date= 24 August 2011 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190327134353/https://www.times-series.co.uk/uk_national_entertainment/3744876.Everett_plays_Byron_in_documentary/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url= http://arama.hurriyet.com.tr/arsivnews.aspx?id=-639459 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120701114649/http://arama.hurriyet.com.tr/arsivnews.aspx?id=-639459 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 July 2012 |title=Lord Byron by Rupert Everett |work=Hürriyet Daily News |access-date=24 August 2011 }} and another on British explorer Sir Richard Burton.{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-victorian-sex-explorer |title=The Victorian Sex Explorer |publisher=Channel 4 |access-date=24 August 2011 |archive-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201041335/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-victorian-sex-explorer |url-status=dead }}{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/17/g2-interview-rupert-everett | title= Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose | work = The Guardian| last= Brocke | first= Emma| date= 20 July 2009}}

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 Noël Coward play Blithe Spirit, starring alongside Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole and Jayne Atkinson, under the direction of Michael Blakemore.{{cite web |url= http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23662576-details/High+spirits+as+Rupert+Everett+becomes+the+ghostly+toast+of+Broadway/article.do |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912050740/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23662576-details/High+spirits+as+Rupert+Everett+becomes+the+ghostly+toast+of+Broadway/article.do |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 September 2012 |title=High spirits as Rupert Everett becomes the ghostly toast of Broadway| last= Teodorczuk| first= Tom |work= Evening Standard |location= London |date=16 March 2009 |access-date=24 August 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2009/03/blithe_spirit.php |title= Applause for Lansbury in 'Blithe Spirit' on Broadway| website = Newyorkology.com| date= 16 March 2009 |access-date=24 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725231330/http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2009/03/blithe_spirit.php |archive-date=25 July 2011 }} and he was expected to tour several Italian cities during the 2008–09 winter season in another Coward play Private Lives (performed in Italian, which he speaks fluently){{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNcIcafME0 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140710143837/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNcIcafME0| archive-date=10 July 2014 | url-status=dead|title=Rupert Everett interviewed by Fabio Fazio for 'Che tempo che fa', a RAI tv programme |via=YouTube |date=18 March 2010 |access-date=24 August 2011}}—playing Elyot to Italian actress Asia Argento's Amanda—but the production was cancelled.{{cite web|url=http://www.primoriccitelli.it/news.asp?azione=b&id=131&tipo= |title= Annullato lo spettacolo 'Vite private' | website = Primoriccitelli.it |access-date=24 August 2011}}

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During the summer of 2010, Everett performed as Professor Henry Higgins, with English actress Honeysuckle Weeks and Stephanie Cole, in a revival of Pygmalion at the Chichester Festival Theatre.{{cite web |url= http://www.cft.org.uk/cft-productions_details.asp?pid=368 |title= Chichester Festival Theatre webpage, announcing the production of Pygmalion | website = cft.org.uk |access-date=24 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110718155852/http://www.cft.org.uk/cft-productions_details.asp?pid=368 |archive-date=18 July 2011 }} He reprised the role in May 2011 at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End, starring alongside Diana Rigg and Kara Tointon.{{cite web| title=Pygmalion|url=http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/pygmaliongarrick-rev| website= British Theatre Guide |access-date=13 March 2014| first=Philip | last= Fisher| year= 2011}}

In July 2010, Everett was featured in the family history programme Who Do You Think You Are?{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/jul/27/the-hospital-tv-review | title= TV review: The Hospital & Who do you think you are?| work = The Guardian| last= Mangan| first= Lucy| date = 27 July 2010}} Released in late 2010, the comedy film Wild Target features Everett as an art-loving gangster, and also starred Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt.{{cite news|title=A Minute With: Rupert Everett talking 'Wild Target' |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-everett-idUSTRE6AA51K20101111| access-date=13 March 2014 |work= Reuters.com |date=11 November 2010| first=Iain | last= Blair}}

In 2012, 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 Everett appears as the brother of protagonist Christopher Tietjens.{{cite web |url= https://www.playbill.com/article/tom-stoppards-parades-end-adaptation-to-star-rupert-everett-miranda-richardson-adelaide-clemens-com-182799 |last=Hetrick |first=Adam |title=Tom Stoppard's 'Parade's End' Adaptation to Star Rupert Everett, Miranda Richardson, Adelaide Clemens |date=20 September 2011 |website= Playbill |access-date=22 March 2021}}

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. It ran at the Hampstead through 13 October 2012,{{cite web| url= http://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2012/the-judas-kiss/ | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20121115041518/http://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2012/the-judas-kiss/ | title = The Judas Kiss | website = HampsteadTheatre.com| archivedate= 15 November 2012}} toured the UK and Dublin,{{cite web | last = Maxwell | first= Barbara | url= http://www.whatsonstage.com/bath-theatre/reviews/10-2012/the-judas-kiss-bath-tour_2302.html | title= The Judas Kiss (Bath – tour)| website = WhatsOnStage.com | date= 22 October 2012}}{{cite web | url= https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/news/2012/09/the-judas-kiss-to-tour-the-uk-dates-for-your-diary/ | title = The Judas Kiss To Tour The UK: Dates For Your Diary | website= HampsteadTheatre.com | date= 13 September 2012}}{{cite web | url= http://www.gaietytheatre.ie/index.php/whats-on-buy-tickets/calendar/the-judas-kiss/433| title = The Judas Kiss: 15 October 2012 – 20 October 2012 | website = GaietyTheatre.ie| accessdate = }} then transferred to the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre on 9 January 2013, in a limited run through 6 April 2013.Gilbert, Ryan. [http://www.theatre.com/buzz/164695/rupert-everett-to-star-as-oscar-wilde-in-the-judas-kiss-at-the-west-ends-duke-of-york-theatre "Rupert Everett to Star as Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss at the West End's Duke of York Theatre"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814093751/http://www.theatre.com/buzz/164695/rupert-everett-to-star-as-oscar-wilde-in-the-judas-kiss-at-the-west-ends-duke-of-york-theatre/ |date=14 August 2016 }}. Theatre.com. 12 October 2012.[http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/london-shows/show/item158594/the-judas-kiss/ The Judas Kiss]. OfficialLondonTheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2016.[https://www.cheaptheatretickets.com/the-judas-kiss/ The Judas Kiss by David Hare]. CheapTheatreTickets.com. Retrieved 19 August 2016.

Everett won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Play,[http://awards.whatsonstage.com/archive/2013-results/ 2013 Results] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120000737/http://awards.whatsonstage.com/archive/2013-results/ |date=20 January 2016 }}. Awards.WhatsOnStage.com. and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor.Szalai, Georg. [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/helen-mirren-rupert-everett-james-430947 "Helen Mirren, Rupert Everett, James McAvoy Among Olivier Awards Nominees"]. The Hollywood Reporter. 26 March 2013. In 2016 the production, still starring Everett and with Charlie Rowe as Bosie, ran in North America for seven weeks in Toronto[http://toronto.eventful.com/events/judas-kiss-/E0-001-087271385-0 The Judas Kiss in Toronto]. Toronto.Eventful.com. 22 March 2016 – 1 May 2016. and five weeks at BAM in New York City.[https://www.bam.org/media/6231921/Judas_Kiss.pdf The Judas Kiss] (theatre program). Brooklyn Academy of Music. 11 May – 12 June 2016.

In early 2013, 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.{{cite news| title=The bedtime story that gave Rupert Everett a lifelong fascination with Oscar Wilde| url= http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/440580/The-bedtime-story-that-gave-Rupert-Everett-a-lifelong-fascination-with-Oscar-Wilde|access-date=13 March 2014| newspaper= Daily Express |date=1 November 2013| first=Luisa | last= Metcalfe}} The subsequent film The Happy Prince, written and directed by Everett, was released in 2018.{{cite news |last1=Thorpe |first1= Vanessa |title=The importance of being Oscar: how Rupert Everett found a cause |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/rupert-everett-oscar-wilde-film-the-happy-prince |access-date=10 June 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 June 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/the-happy-prince-review-1202671527/ |last=Lodge |first=Guy |title=Film Review: 'The Happy Prince' |website=Variety |date=22 January 2018 |access-date=22 March 2021}}

In 2015, 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 Musketeers.{{Cite web| url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/rupert-everett-musketeers |title=BBC – Rupert Everett and Matthew McNulty to join The Musketeers series three |publisher= BBC|access-date=13 July 2016}}

In 2017, Everett appeared as a recurring character in the BBC 2 comedy Quacks. He plays Dr Hendricks, the neurotic principal of the medical school.{{Cite web| url= http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/tv-review-quacks-bbc-2-rupert-everetts-animated-hernia-a7944311.html|title=TV review, Quacks (BBC2): Rupert Everett's animated hernia|date=9 May 2019| website=The Independent|access-date=12 May 2019}}

Between 2006 and 2010, Everett lived in New York City, but returned to London because of his father's poor health. In 2008, he bought a home in the Central London district of Belgravia.{{cite news|last=Walker |first=Tim |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2039068/Rupert-Everett-ain%27t-got-no-body.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002215859/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2039068/Rupert-Everett-ain%27t-got-no-body.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 October 2008 |title=Rupert Everett ain't got no body |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=27 May 2008 |access-date=24 August 2011}}

In the 1990s, Everett had a six-year-long affair with television presenter and writer Paula Yates, who was married to Bob Geldof at the time.{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/rupert-everett-paula-yates-affair-piers-morgan-life-stories-b921943.html|title=Rupert Everett discusses affair with Paula Yates in latest episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories|website=Evening Standard|last=Edmonds|first=Lizzie|date=3 March 2021|access-date=14 March 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/03/rupert-everett-ignored-bob-geldof-while-having-affair-with-paula-yates-14176238/|title=Rupert Everett 'felt no guilt' having six-year affair with Paula Yates during her marriage to Bob Geldof|website=Metro|last=Pearce|first=Tilly|date=3 March 2021|access-date=14 March 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/rupert-everett-piers-morgans-life-stories-tonight-episode-start-time-itv-watch-898605|title=Rupert Everett on Piers Morgan's Life Stories: What time the episode starts on ITV tonight, and what to expect|website=i (newspaper)|last=Littlejohn|first=Georgina|date=4 March 2021|access-date=14 March 2023}}

{{As of|2020}}, Everett lives with his partner Henrique, a Brazilian accountant.{{Cite news |last=Edwardes |first=Charlotte |date=2 October 2020 |title=Rupert Everett on Hollywood, Gen Z, cancel culture and new TV show Adult Material |newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/rupert-everett-on-hollywood-gen-z-cancel-culture-and-new-tv-show-adult-material-9rcglqxhk |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 May 2022 |issn=0140-0460}}{{Cite web |last=Southern |first=Keiran |date=3 October 2020 |title=Rupert Everett says trans movement has 'overshadowed' gay rights |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rupert-everett-says-trans-movement-054928575.html |access-date=1 May 2022 |website=Yahoo News}} They married in 2024.{{Cite web |title=Rupert Everett secretly married his longtime partner Henrique earlier this year: "I have always hated weddings" |first=Johnny |last=Lopez |publisher=MSN |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/weddings/rupert-everett-secretly-married-his-longtime-partner-henrique-earlier-this-year-i-have-always-hated-weddings/ar-AA1pBOSY}}

Everett was a patron of the British Monarchist Society and Foundation.{{Cite web|title = Patrons {{!}} British Monarchist Society and Foundation|url = http://bmsf.org.uk/about-us/patrons/|website = bmsf.org.uk|access-date = 2 September 2015}}

In 2006, as a homeowner in the central London area of Bloomsbury, he supported a campaign to prevent the establishment of a local Starbucks branch and referred to the global chain as a "cancer". He protested with 1,000 other residents, and the group compiled a petition.{{cite web|title=Rupert Everett: 'Starbucks Is Spreading Like a Cancer'|url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/18/rupert_everett_starbucks_is_spreading_li|work=Starpulse|publisher=Starpulse.com|access-date=13 March 2014|date=18 August 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313213928/http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/18/rupert_everett_starbucks_is_spreading_li|archive-date=13 March 2014}}

In 2013, Everett worked on the production of a documentary on sex work for Channel 4 that included the issue of criminalisation. During and after its filming, he contributed to the discourse on prostitution legislation in the UK. In October 2013, he signed an open letter from the English Collective of Prostitutes and Queer Strike—alongside groups such as the Association of Trade Union Councils, Sex Worker Open University, Left Front Art – Radical Progressive Queers, Queer Resistance, and Queers Against the Cuts—to oppose the adoption of the "Swedish model", whereby the clients of sex workers (though not the workers themselves) are criminalised.{{cite news|title=Rupert Everett backs campaign against criminalising prostitution|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/10/11/rupert-everett-backs-campaign-against-criminalising-prostitution/|work=PinkNews|access-date=13 March 2014|author=Scott Roberts|date=11 October 2013}}

Everett continued his participation in the sex-work legislation debate in 2014, writing a long-form piece for The Guardian and appearing on the BBC One programme This Week.{{cite web|title=Rupert Everett's call to legalise prostitution|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01tfkvx|work=BBC One|access-date=13 March 2014|format=Video upload|date=7 February 2014}}{{cite news|title=Rupert Everett in defence of prostitutes: 'There is a land grab going on'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/19/rupert-everett-in-defence-of-prostitutes|access-date=13 March 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 January 2014|author=Rupert Everett}} He also joined protesters in a demonstration outside the offices of Soho Estates, a major property company that owns properties on Soho's Walkers Court, where many sex workers are based.

In 2012, Everett said in an interview regarding same-sex marriage: "But why do we want to get married in churches? I don't understand that, myself, personally. I loathe heterosexual weddings; I would never go to a wedding in my life. I loathe the flowers, I loathe the fucking wedding dress, the little bridal tiara. It's grotesque. It's just hideous. The wedding cake, the party, the champagne, the inevitable divorce two years later. It's just a waste of time in the heterosexual world, and in the homosexual world I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster."{{Cite news |last=Aitkenhead |first=Decca |date=28 September 2012 |title=Rupert Everett: the queen of mean |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/28/rupert-everett-memoir-vanished-years |access-date=20 November 2023 |issn=0261-3077}} A few days after the release of the interview, he was criticised{{Cite web |date=18 September 2012 |title=Outcry As Gay Actor Rupert Everett Says: 'I Can't Think Of Anything Worse Than Being Brought Up By Two Gay Dads' |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/18/outcry-as-gay-actor-rupert-everett-says-i-can-t-think-of-anything-worse-than-being-brought-up-by-two-gay-dads_n_7374242.html |access-date=20 November 2023 |website=HuffPost}}{{Cite news |last=McCormick |first=Joseph Patrick |date=16 September 2012 |title=Rupert Everett: Gay parents? I can't think of anything worse |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2012/09/16/rupert-everett-gay-parents-i-cant-think-of-anything-worse/ |access-date=20 November 2023 |work=PinkNews}}{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Richard |date=20 November 2023 |title=Two gay dads? Bad luck, baby |newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/two-gay-dads-bad-luck-baby-g7kzffxnr9w |access-date=20 November 2023 |issn=0140-0460}} for the following remark: "I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads". He went on to explain that "[f]or me, being gay was about wanting to do the opposite of the straight world, so I think that's where my problems in this particular area come from. [...] But that's me, just me. I'm not having a go at gay couples who do. I think if Elton and David want to have babies, that's wonderful. I think we should all do what we want."{{Cite news |last=Aitkenhead |first=Decca |date=28 September 2012 |title=Rupert Everett: the queen of mean |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/28/rupert-everett-memoir-vanished-years |access-date=20 November 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}

Everett has also disclosed that he identified as transgender during his childhood and dressed as a girl from age 6 to 14. When he turned 15, he ceased to identify as female and embraced his identity as a gay man. He 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".{{cite news|title=Rupert Everett says Caitlyn Jenner made 'a terrible mistake' by transitioning

|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rupert-everett-says-caitlyn-jenner-made-terrible-mistake-transitioning-a7090521.html |access-date=2 October 2020 |newspaper=Independent |date=19 June 2016 |first=Maya |last=Oppenheim}}

Everett expressed his opposition to cancel culture in a 2020 interview with ''The Advocate.{{Cite web |title=Rupert Everett likens social media to 'the Stasi' |url=https://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/national-news/18769724.rupert-everett-likens-social-media-the-stasi/ |website=largsandmillportnews.com|date=4 October 2020 }}

• 1992: Hello, Darling, Are You Working? (novel)
• 1995: The Hairdressers of St. Tropez (novel)
• 2006: Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (memoir)
• 2012: Vanished Years (memoir)
• 2019: To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

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