Everett in 2015. He's a lot scruffier now.
"My first two movies were classics. I should probably have died in a crash if I had been at all serious about my career."
— Rupert Everett, regarding Another Country (1984) and Dancing with a Stranger (1985)
Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959 in Burnham Deepdale, England) is an English actor best known for early successes in Another Country and My Best Friend's Wedding and later successes in the second and third Shrek films, the rebooted St. Trinian's films, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, as well as a role in the Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits. He's also known for having roles in many film adaptations of plays, especially those of Oscar Wilde.
He as a person is best known for two things: being a cheeky cynic, and being openly gay. Everett is a staunch advocate of gay rights and sex worker rights.
Full filmography
- Strangers (series, 1982)
- Play for Today (1982)
- A Shocking Accident (short, 1982)
- The Agatha Christie Hour (series, 1982)
- Dead on Time (short, 1983)
- The Bloody Chamber (short, 1983)
- Princess Daisy (TV movie, 1983) (no relation to that Princess Daisy)
- The Far Pavilions (mini-series, 1984)
- Another Country (1984)
- Real Life (1984)
- Arthur the King (TV movie, 1985)
- Dance with a Stranger (1985)
- Duet for One (1986)
- The Right Hand Man (1987)
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
- The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
- Hearts of Fire (1987)
- Tolérance (1989)
- The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
- Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)
- Mama's Back (TV movie, 1993)
- Cemetery Man (1994)
- Ready to Wear (1994)
- Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1994)
- Strelyayushchiye angely (aka. Shooting Angels) (1994)
- The Madness of King George (1994)
- Dunston Checks In (1996)
- My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
- B. Monkey (1998)
- Shakespeare in Love (1998, uncredited)
- An Ideal Husband (1999)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
- Inspector Gadget (1999)
- The Next Best Thing (2000)
- South Kensington (2001)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
- Unconditional Love (2002)
- The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)
- To Kill a King (2003)
- Dangerous Liaisons (mini-series, 2003)
- Mr. Ambassador (TV movie, 2003)
- Stage Beauty (2004)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- People (2004)
- A Different Loyalty (2004)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (TV movie, 2004)
- Separate Lies (2005)
- Boston Legal (2005)
- The Chronicles of Narnia (2005)
- And Quiet Flows The Don (mini-series, 2006)
- Shrek the Third (2007)
- Stardust (2007)
- St. Trinian's (2007)
- St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)
- Wild Target (2010)
- Hysteria (2011)
- Black Mirror (2011) - "Fifteen Million Merits"
- Parade's End (mini-series, 2012)
- The Other Wife (mini-series, 2012)
- Rosamunde Pilcher (series, 2012)
- Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)
- The Return (short film, 2013)
- Rosenn (2014)
- A Royal Night Out (2015)
- Finding Altamira (2016)
- The Musketeers (2016)
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
- Quacks (2017)
- The Happy Prince (2018)
- Slender Man (2018)
- The Name of the Rose (mini-series, 2019)
- The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019)
- Muse (2019)
- Adult Material (mini-series, 2020)
- She Will (2021)
- Warning (2021)
- The Serpent Queen (series, 2022)
- My Policeman (2022)
