Rupert Everett
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Rupert Everett (Rupert James Hector Everett, born 1959) is an actor.
He was born in Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk. He ran away to London aged 16 to become an actor, and worked as a rent boy to support himself.[1] He studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama but was dismissed for insubordination, and then got a job at the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow.
In 1981 he got a part as a the gay schoolboy "Guy Bennett" (modelled on Guy Burgess in Another Country at the Greenwich Theatre and then the West End, followed by the film version in 1984.
In 1989 Everett moved to Paris, where he wrote the novel Hello, Darling, Are You Working? and came out as gay, which he later said may have damaged his career.[2]
References
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3577920/The-ascent-of-Everett.html Nigel Farndale "The ascent of Everett", Daily Telegraph 22 May 2002
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/29/rupert-everett-madonna-carole-cadwalladr Guardian article. 29 November 2009. "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out."
