Star Sign: Gemini

Famous As: British Actor and Writer

Childhood: Rupert Everett's father was an army officer. He was brought up a Catholic and went to a Dominican school. He started at boarding school at the age of seven. Everett left Ampleforth, the Catholic public school, at the age of 15. He enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama, but was expelled for 'subversion'.

Work: At the age of 17 he joined the flamboyantly camp and avant-garde Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow. Everett did some modelling, including for Yves St Laurent's Opium aftershave and in the mid 1980s he tried to launch himself as a rock star but his debut record Generation of Loneliness flopped and he escaped to Paris.
In 1983 he went to Hollywood to make a film with Orson Welles, but the project came to an end when the director died. He went out with Bianca Jagger, Cher, Madonna, and Paula Yates, but in 1992 he came out publicly as gay.
Everett has been in plays by Noël Coward (The Vortex, Private Lives), Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest), Tennessee Williams (The Milk Train doesn't Stop Here Any More). He won the 1997 Golden Apple Award for Male Discovery of the Year. He has written an unsucessful gay novel The Hairdresser of St Tropez. He is Hollywood's first openly gay male actor.

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