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  RUPERT EVERETT
Everett has a mad glitter in his eyes; his head is tilted at an imperious angle: his beringed fingers fidget and claw.
Rupert Everett returns to the company to give a definitive Randall Utterwood, cigarette holder clenched firmly between those upper-class jaws, a languid Foreign Office toff with a crush on his sister-in-law whose hopes evaporate in his explosive sobbing fit..
Everett also gets to bark, as a matter of fact, but that is by the way and, like most bestialisations of human behaviour, has already been thought of by the playwright ('I'll be friends with him, for mark you sir, one dog/Still sets another dog a-barking.') Of course it is mannered.
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  Rupert Everett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959) is an English actor.
Everett was born in Norfolk, England to Major Anthony Michael Everett and Sara MacLean, who was Scottish, and descended from the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Schmiedern barons.
From the age of 7, he was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, but dropped out of school at 15 and ran away to London to become an actor.
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 glbtq >> arts >> Everett, Rupert
Everett's character evolved from a friend of the character played by Julia Roberts to a closer, more appealing "gay confidante," with insight, charm, humor, and suavity, a distinctly different role from the gay comic sidekicks of earlier Hollywood films.
Everett believes that he was able to give the character he played greater depth as a result of his sexuality in real life.
Everett's openness as a gay actor, coupled with his success playing gay roles, led to a great deal of discussion about whether openly gay actors could be accepted as movie stars.
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 CNN - Rupert Everett's dream realized -- the 20-year overnight success - May 10, 1999
Everett even did a stint as a pop singer and novelist before being caught in the glare of Hollywood leading light Julia Roberts.
In one of those great hindsight twists, Everett now notes that he initially shied away from co-starring in the 1997 "My Best Friend's Wedding." He was turned off by what he perceived as his role's lack of substance.
Born in England in 1959, Everett was raised in an upper-class family and educated at a Benedictine monastery.
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 CNN.com - Entertainment - Rupert Everett unveils his 'Next Best Thing' - March 7, 2000
In person, Everett is quite serious, perfectly nice and utterly pleasant -- but his famous wit, this morning, seems nearly as hidden as the natural hair color of his friend and co-star in his latest movie, Madonna.
Everett is promoting "The Next Best Thing," in which he plays Madonna's gay best friend and the accidental father of her baby.
Everett says they worked on the script to make it more personal, though Thomas Ropelewski, who penned the original, is still listed as screenplay's writer.
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 Rupert Everett - Biography
British-born Rupert Everett grew up in privileged circumstances, but the wry, sometimes arrogant intellectual was a rebel from the very beginning.
Everett even turned down a role on the London stage, because it meant having to have his dog quarantined for six months.
Everett is the great-nephew of Donald Maclean, who escaped to the Soviet Union in 1951 on his 38th birthday.
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 Rupert Everett
British actor Rupert Everett charmed his way into moviegoers' affections with his scene-stealing performance in "My Best Friend's Wedding." Everett is also the gifted writer of this scathingly funny novel of a down-and-out actor's zany misadventures amid a wildly colorful menagerie of madcap trendsetters.
Rupert Everett is the languid "innocent," denied entry to the school's ruling elite because of an indiscreet homosexual affair.
Everett was a good student who was trained classically on the piano (although he harbored secret desires of being a rock star).
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 AfterElton.com - Rupert Everett: from Best Friend to Leading Man
While Everett's character will tap into his debonair persona, it will also be an unusual opportunity for him to tackle a heterosexual romantic role, with his character battling wits with his ex-girlfriend, Rhona Mitra's Tara Wilson, in a major case that will last at least three episodes.
Everett's experience as the only openly gay leading man in Hollywood has been a mixed bag, with Hugh Grant largely supplanting him as Hollywood's go-to-guy for British toff roles.
Everett seems especially frustrated at the hypocrisy of an industry powered by so many closeted stars and behind-the-scenes players.
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 The singular experience of Mr. Rupert Everett - The Boston Globe
Rupert Everett has neither the patience nor the inclination to bite the hand that feeds him.
Everett grew up watching Rathbone on rainy Sunday afternoons as a child, but he says he had no interest in exhuming a fussy academic detective with a dim-witted sidekick.
Brenman says that Everett was at the top of his list to play the part when his company produced another Sherlock Holmes movie a few years back.
www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2005/10/22/the_singular_experience_of_mr_rupert_everett   (708 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Rupert Everett to write memoir   (Site not responding. Last check: )
NEW YORK (AP) — Rupert Everett, the British actor whose co-stars have included Madonna and Julia Roberts, is writing his memoirs.
Rupert Everett was in Berlin the day the Berlin Wall came down and was a few blocks away from the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks.
6/27/2005 3:38 PM Rupert Everett was in Berlin the day the Berlin Wall came down and was a few blocks away from the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks.
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 Rupert Everett Biography
Everett won raves for his portrayal of the younger version of real-life spy Guy Burgess, and in 1984 re-created the role for the play's film version.
Although it seemed Everett's career was on the rise, the actor unfortunately opted for near-nonentity status with his 1987 U.S. film debut in Hearts of Fire, a rock & roll drama co-starring Bob Dylan.
Furthermore, Everett actually managed to make a favorable impression as a philandering fashion house scion, favor that was magnified, during the same year, with his hilarious turn as the fat and lazy Prince of Wales in Nicholas Hytner's The Madness of King George.
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 Rupert Everett
In the 1996 edition of Baseline's Encyclopedia of Film, Rupert Everett was labeled "Handsome young lead of the 1980s" - indicating that his star had long ago burnt out.
Rupert's performance- highlighted by his glorious rendition of Burt Bacharach's "I Say A Little Prayer" -- was such a showstopper that many people are still amazed he didn't get an Oscar nomination.
When he reprised the role on the screen in 1984, Everett became a media darling.
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 For actor Rupert Everett, no crimefighter role is elementary - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Everett admits he's not a fanatic about Holmes, but says the role satisfied a common yearning for many actors.
Eaton describes Everett's portrayal of the detective as "having fun with the icon; being Sherlock but having a good time at it.
Everett found it fun to reprise a role that so many actors have played.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/tv/s_386606.html   (664 words)

  
 AfterElton.com - Rupert Everett: from Best Friend to Leading Man (page 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rupert Everett was born into an upper-class family on May 29, 1959.
Rupert did not last even two years at London's Central School for Speech and Drama in his mid teens, being expelled for "insubordination" (an early sign of his fiery, independent spirit).
Everett's first breakthrough success came in 1982 at the age of 23 in a London production of the play Another Country.
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 The Rupert Everett Picture Pages
Unfortunately for Everett, he had yet to check his growing ego and he had frequent clashes with the press and with fans who were soon turned off by his arrogant behavior and derision.
Everett released two pop albums in the late 80s, but they proved to be more embarrassing than anything else.
Everett has experienced both the highs and lows of celebrity, and they have left him humbled.
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 Rupert Everett: Head boy - Features, Film & TV - The Independent
Rupert Everett is a former prostitute and childhood transvestite, who went on to Hollywood stardom and literary acclaim not to mention affairs with some of the most glamorous men and women on the planet.
That tone of languid exasperation is characteristic of Everett not exactly camp but crossly theatrical, as if it's quite natural for "everyone" to have an opinion about his career, his mind or just whatever he's doing to the back of his head.
Rupert Everett is a strange combination of the fey and the fuming, the effete and the enraged.
www.independent.co.uk /arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/rupert-everett-head-boy-765361.html   (3031 words)

  
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Rupert began his acting training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, but left early and apprenticed at the Glasgow Citizen’s Theater in Scotland.
Rupert has a Labrador called Moise, who has to stay in the US due to quarrantine laws.He won the 1997 Golden Apple Award for Male Discovery of the Year.
Rupert was also part of MTV's FANatic programme, on March 3rd at 10:30pm (ET/PT) in the US, the person who has proved themselves to be Rupert's No.1 interviewed him on the show.
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 Rupert Everett - bare - Telegraph
It is six o'clock on a weekday morning, and I am sitting on Rupert Everett's elegant white sofa in his equally elegant wood-panelled drawing room in Bloomsbury while he prepares himself for a day of filming his latest role, as Miss Fritton, the headmistress of St Trinian's.
Rupert is reading a book by the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti and quotes me selected extracts.
Rupert Everett: ‘If I was straight … I’d be like a rapper – three girls at the same time, coke, orgies, yachts.
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 Rupert Everett
Everett also worked as a model in Milan and (as he publicly confirmed in a 1997 interview) as a male prostitute.
Everett tried his hand—unsuccessfully—at pop music, recording two albums.
Everett owns homes in London, Paris, Miami Beach, and New York City’s Greenwich Village.
www.nyu.edu /classes/jeffreys/GayandLesbianPerformance/GeoffWilson/RupertEverett.html   (71 words)

  
 Rupert Everett Interviewed — SHREK THE THIRD
Rupert Everett: Stardust is about a parallel universe next door to the real world; it’s a really good film made by Matthew Vaughn.
Rupert Everett: No, because a whole lot of us are dead; every show, someone else died and they all joined this horrible green screen world.
Rupert Everett: A social commentary, where is that is just fantasy; but I don’t think live action in the old days really holds the mirror up to society very much.
www.collider.com /entertainment/interviews/article.asp?aid=4298&tcid=1   (1964 words)

  
 Reel.com: Rupert Everett   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Given the chance to work with pretty much anyone he chose, the openly gay British actor called one of his best friends, Madonna, to see if she would star in a film with him.
With Madonna as an unconventional single mother and Everett as her gay best friend, this funny and poignant tale contains more than a touch of reality, as Everett explained during a recent press junket.
Rupert Everett: I first heard about it years ago when the original writer and his wife were going to direct it at Columbia and I went up for it and didn't get the role.
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 Amazon.com: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking: DVD: Simon Cellan Jones,Rupert Everett,Nicholas ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rupert Everett gives a wholly original performance as Holmes--not an easy thing to do in the shadow of Jeremy Brett's definitive portrayal on Britain's Granada Television in the 1980s.
Rupert Everett has been a dynamic actor in the past, but here he sleepwalks his way through the role of Holmes, speaking mostly in a high whisper and showing none of the energy nor the intellectual curiosity inherent in the character.
Rupert Everett as Sherlock Holmes, Nicholas Palliser as Dr. Dunwoody, Neil Dudgeon as Lestrade, Ian Hart as Dr. Watson, Anne Carroll as Mrs.
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 Mount Everett - actor Rupert Everett Advocate, The - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For Everett, in a virtual summer trifecta of his own, has plenty of other love affairs to juggle--while also deftly laying to rest the myth that openly gay actors can't play straight romantic leads.
Everett returns in Edwardian formal wear for an elegant screen version of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.
As Lord Goring, a sybaritic London playboy, Everett is at the center of plenty of polite romantic intrigue, including Minnie Driver's amorous advances.
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 Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) - Starring Rupert Everett and Ian Hart
The illustrious detective Sherlock Holmes, played by Rupert Everett, is drawn out of retirement by his estranged partner in crime, Dr John Watson (Ian Hart), when a case that threatens to overwhelm the privilege and tranquillity of aristocratic society comes to their attention.
Tall, slender, dark-haired and with a strong nose, Everett is a fairly good choice for the part from a purely physical perspective.
Although Everett seemed to awaken somewhat to the part as the film progressed, a bit of nervous energy, or any energy for that matter, and he might have given us the most compelling Holmes to come along since Jeremy Brett.
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 Rupert Everett on Shrek the Third - ComingSoon.net
Everett: A social commentary, that is just fantasy; but I don't think live action in the old days really holds the mirror up to society very much.
Everett: I kept trying to bring her back; she was a great character, too.
Everett: It was good, we made one film off it called "Delamorte Dellamore" and we were going to make another one but it never got off the ground.
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 Rupert Everett Filmography
Rupert Everett plays Francesco Dellamorte, a lonely cemetery caretaker who just wants to get out of his small town of Buffalora.
Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) have come to Italy to chart the future of their troubled relationship.
Synopsis: Harry Ironmaster (Rupert Everett) is an aristocratic and wealthy young man, which in his time and place should put him pretty much on top of the world.
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 EXTRA: Rupert Everett   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born and raised in the UK, Everett was educated in a Benedictine monastery.
Everett's talents were appreciated by audiences and critics alike with his acclaimed performances in Nicholas Hytner's "The Madness of King George," Robert Altman's "Pret-a-Porter" ("Ready to Wear") and "My Best Friend's Wedding." His scene-stealing role as Julia Roberts' best friend garnered him a Golden Globe nomination, an American Comedy Award and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award.
Everett's upcoming projects include "An Ideal Husband" opposite Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore, "Inspector Gadget" with Matthew Broderick and the comedy "The Next Best Thing" opposite Madonna.
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