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  • Rupert Everett to direct Wilde biopic - 21 May 2012
    -Actor Rupert Everett will make his directorial debut with a biopic about Oscar Wilde.-The My Best Friend's Wedding star, who appeared in movie versions of Wilde's plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, will step behind the camera for The Happy Prin


  • Everett applauds Firth for career success - 2 February 2011
    -Actor Rupert Everett has applauded Colin Firth, just months after slating his performance in movie musical Mamma Mia!.- -The My Best Friend's Wedding star mocked his old pal Firth's portrayal of a gay businessman in the 2008 Abba-themed film, admitting he thought the s


  • Everett forced out of Hollywood after 'coming out' as a gay man - 31 December 2010
    -Rupert Everett has become the latest gay star to speak openly about the downside of 'coming out', revealing he was shunned by Hollywood after he declared he was a homosexual. - -The My Best Friend's Wedding star, 51, admits he had to flee Hollywood after his big reveal

Rupert Everett - what members say


  • My Best Friend's Wedding
  • My Best Friend's Wedding review by Cornetto from Lancashire, UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars My Best Friends Wedding. 25 April 2007
    ...ttempts to ruin his relationship always back fire. Best Character is played by Rupert Everett (Gay Friend) He is so funny. ...   Read customer review
  • Shakespeare In Love
  • Shakespeare In Love review by from Hertfordshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Best. Film. Ever. 10 April 2006
    ... of the young Shakepeare by Fiennes and hilarious appearances from the likes of Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Dame Judi Dence, Tom Wilkinson and Geoffrey Rush. The plot weaves...   Read customer review
  • Dance With A Stranger
  • Dance With A Stranger review by from Deepest, Darkest Cheshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Dance With A Stranger 19 February 2005
    ...ey. Excellent performances by Miranda Richardson as Ruth and the very excellent Rupert Everett too! If you like Rupert Everett look for Another Country (1981) also.... ...   Read customer review

Rupert Everett - filmography


  • Wild Target - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Eileen Atkins,  Rupert Everett,  Bill Nighy
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A gorgeous con-artist sells a fake painting to a powerful gangster, and discovers that crime doesn't pay when her unsatisfied customer hires Europe's top assassin to take her out. But the moment Victor (Bill Nighy) gets Rose (Emily Blunt) in his crosshairs, he hesitates. The situation grows tense ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 70 members
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  • Wild Target on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Emily Blunt,  Rupert Grint
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bill Nighy is Victor Maynard, a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, Louisa (Eileen Atkins), despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 7,555 members
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  • Stardust - HD (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Charlie Cox,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,608 member
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  • Stardust on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Charlie Cox,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 97,244 members
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  • Stardust - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Sienna Miller,  Jason Flemyng,  Ricky Gervais
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,975 members
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  • Separate Lies (2005)
    Starring: Linda Bassett,  Hermione Norris,  Rupert Everett
    Director: Julian Fellowes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A wealthy and successful couple find their life changed forever following a car crash in which their housekeeper's husband is killed. Lies and deception are rife as the police begin to investigate.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 7,756 members
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  • A Different Loyalty on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Rupert Everett,  Julian Wadham
    Director: Marek Kanievska
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sharon Stone (BASIC INSTINCT, COLD CREEK MANOR) stars as American war correspondent Sally Tyler, sent to cover the military campaign in Beirut during the height of the cold war. There, she meets Leo Cauffield (Rupert Everett, STAGE BEAUTY, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING), a British intelligence agent ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 85 members
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  • Stage Beauty on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Billy Crudup,  Rupert Everett
    Director: Richard Eyre
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the seventeenth century the roles of women in live theatre are played by men and one of the most famous is Ned Kynaston. When Charles II tires of the same old faces he decides to allow real women on the stage. Overnight Ned becomes a nobody and heads towards suicide until an actress named Maria ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 7,915 members
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  • Shrek 2 on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Mike Myers,  Eddie Murphy,  Cameron Diaz
    Director: Andrew Adamson,  Kelly Asbury,  Conrad Vernon
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    After returning from their honeymoon and showing "home movies" to their friends, Shrek and Fiona learn Fiona's parents have heard their daughter has married her true love and wish to meet the husband and invite him to their kingdom, called Far Far Away. The catch? Fiona's parents are unaware of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 85,165 members
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  • To Kill A King on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Dougray Scott,  Tim Roth,  Rupert Everett
    Director: Mike Barker
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set at the end of the Civil War in 1645, TO KILL A KING is a stirring period piece that follows the relationship between Lord General Fairfax (Dougray Scott) and his ambitious deputy Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) as they struggle to rebuild a shattered England. Part of Cromwell's solution is to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,617 members
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  • Unconditional Love (2002)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Julie Andrews,  Kathy Bates
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Grace Beasley's (Kathy Bates) husband (Dan Aykroyd) leaves her, she sets off on an impulsive trip abroad to attend the funeral of her idol Victor Fox (Jonathan Pryce). In the process, she gets caught up in a wild and extraordinary adventure with an ulikely companion who convinces her to start ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,447 members
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  • The Next Best Thing on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Lynn Redgrave,  Stacy Edwards,  Benjamin Bratt
    Director: John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When best friends Abbie (Madonna - EVITA) and Robert (Everett - MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING)--who happens to be gay--engage in an unexpected tryst, they write it off as the result of clouded judgment from too many drinks. However, when Abbie discovers she's pregnant, the two decide to move in together ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,584 member
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  • Paragraph 175 (2000)
    Starring: Rupert Everett
    Director: Rob Epstein,  Jeffrey Friedman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
    2.5 stars out of 5 55% from 14 members
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  • An Ideal Husband on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Minnie Driver,  Rupert Everett,  Cate Blanchett
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In a moment of youthful indiscretion, Sir Robert Chiltern provided an Austrian baron with secret Foreign Office information. As payment he received the money that became the basis of his fortune and of his splendid, otherwise unimpeachable government career. Years later, he is blackmailed by a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,229 members
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  • Shakespeare In Love - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow,  Joseph Fiennes,  Geoffrey Rush
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this well-conceived Elizabethan comedy, writers Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman ask the question: Who was William Shakespeare's muse? The answer: Viola de Lesseps, a young noblewoman who dreams of acting on a man's stage. The screenwriters deliver a cleverly crafted scenario which beautifully ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 148 members
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  • B. Monkey (1998)
    Starring: Asia Argento,  Jared Harris,  Rupert Everett
    Director: Michael Radford
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Alan Furnace is a young man with the perfectly proper, quiet life of a London school teacher. But beneath all of that decency lies a burning desire for excitement and he just found it. She's a woman unlike any other: Unruly Irish eyes, Latin lips... her name is Beatrice, but on the streets they ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 34 members
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  • Shakespeare In Love on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow,  Joseph Fiennes,  Geoffrey Rush
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A witty, fast-moving romantic comedy set in London in 1593, follows the trials and tribulations of Will Shakespeare, a struggling young playwright suffering from a dreadful bout of writer's block. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't seem to make any headway with his latest work, "Romeo and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 31,368 members
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  • My Best Friend's Wedding on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Dermot Mulroney,  Cameron Diaz
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A 28-year-old woman, who years earlier made a pact with her closest male friend that if neither were married in ten years time they would marry one another, now faces the fact that the man is about to marry someone else. He asks her to be his best man and she agrees, planning to go to the ceremony ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 19,914 members
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  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
    Starring: Ornella Muti,  Rupert Everett,  Anthony Delon
    Director: Francesco Rosi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Cristóbal Bedoya, who is also called "Cristo", is a medical doctor. He has been away from home for 27 years. Currently he comes back to his home-town, which is a small Colombian city in the banks of the Magdalena River. Santiago Nasar is his best friend, who has been murdered three decades ago. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 8 members
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  • Dance With A Stranger on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Miranda Richardson,  Rupert Everett,  Ian Holm
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The moving true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Great Britain. The last man executed in that country was later found to be innocent, a regrettable (to say the least) incident which led to the abandonment of the practice.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 704 members
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  • Another Country on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Colin Firth,  Anna Massey
    Director: Marek Kanievska
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    He rebelled against his family. He outraged his friends. Finally he betrayed his country. Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance as Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940's, who eventually defected to Russia in 1951.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,794 members
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Rupert Everett facts

5 most recent films

Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror - 4.0 stars
Wild Target - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Wild Target - 3.5 stars
Who Do You Think You Are? - Series 7 - 3.0 stars
St. Trinian's 2 - The Legend Of Fritton's Gold - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Stardust - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Stardust - HD - 4.0 stars
Shrek 2 - 3D Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Stardust - 4.0 stars
Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Paragraph 175 - 2.5 stars
B. Monkey - 3.0 stars
Who Do You Think You Are? - Series 7 - 3.0 stars
The Importance Of Being Earnest - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Colin Firth - 15 times - show films
Judi Dench - 8 times - show films
Tom Wilkinson - 8 times - show films
Ricky Gervais - 7 times - show films
Cameron Diaz - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Oliver Parker - 10 times - show films
Andrew Adamson - 9 times - show films
Barnaby Thompson - 6 times - show films
Julian Fellowes - 5 times - show films
Stephen Frears - 4 times - show films