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  • Rupert Everett remembers Natasha Richardson - 18 September 2012
    -Actor Rupert Everett has told how he "plunged into a terrible depression" after the death of former co-star Natasha Richardson.-The actress passed away after hitting her head while skiing in Quebec, Canada in 2009, just days after she had watched Everett perform in New


  • 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

Rupert Everett - what members say


  • 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
  • The Importance Of Being Earnest
  • The Importance Of Being Earnest review by A customer from Camberley
    Rated - 4.0 stars Brilliant 7 September 2009
    ...eary Sunday afternoon. I love watching the partnership between Colin Firth and Rupert Everett; its all so mischievous! I highly recommend it as an introduction to the delig...   Read customer review
  • Shrek 2
  • Shrek 2 review by from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Shrek 2 12 July 2004
    ...iage by midnight or else Princess Fiona will fall in love with Prince Charming (Rupert Everett). Unfortunately, Cameron Diaz was slightly disappointing as Fiona as her role i...   Read customer review

Rupert Everett - filmography


  • Parade's End on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Benedict Cumberbatch,  Miranda Richardson
    Director: Susanna White
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall star in this five-part drama series set towards the end of the Edwardian era. The programme follows aristocrat Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch) as he marries the destructive Sylvia (Hall) despite being uncertain about whether the child she is pregnant with is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 317 members
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  • Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Daniel Kaluuya,  David Flynn
    Director: Euros Lyn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Channel 4 drama series written by Charlie Brooker which explores the role of technology in modern society, in particular the potential dark side of humanity's gadget addiction. Each of the episodes is a stand-alone piece and is set in a slightly different world. 'The National Anthem' follows the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,227 member
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  • Hysteria on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Hugh Dancy,  Rupert Everett,  Jonathan Pryce
    Director: Tanya Wexler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Romantic comedy starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy, based loosely on the life of Joseph Mortimer Granville, the man who invented a somewhat unusual device for treating female hysteria. The film is set at the end of the 19th century, when an official medical technique for the treatment of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,391 member
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  • Wild Target - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Rupert Everett,  Sia Berkeley
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    British crime caper starring Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt. Victor Maynard (Nighy) is a lonely, uptight middle-aged mummy's boy who also happens to be a lethally efficient professional hitman. His last assignment before he retires is to take out con artist Rose (Blunt) for gangster client Ferguson (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 92 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 8,896 members
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  • Stardust - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Mark Strong,  Peter O'Toole
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Fantasy adventure based on the bestselling graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. When a young man, Tristan (Charlie Cox), tries to win the heart of his beautiful but cold object of his desire Victoria (Sienna Miller) by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star, his journey takes him to a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3,411 members
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  • Separate Lies (2005)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Emily Watson,  John Neville
    Director: Julian Fellowes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama based on the novel by Nigel Balchin. James Manning (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife Anne (Emily Watson) lead a seemingly idyllic happy life together until a deadly accident sets off a cascade of increasingly dangerous lies which, in turn, reveal devastating truth about who they are and what each ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 7,831 members
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  • Stage Beauty on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Tom Wilkinson,  Billy Crudup
    Director: Richard Eyre
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Lively period drama set in 17th century London, based on the play by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Richard Eyre. Billy Crudup stars as Ned Kynaston, the brightest star in Restoration theatre. Since women are forbidden to appear on stage, the beautiful, brazen Ned is able to shine in all the great ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 8,054 members
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  • A Different Loyalty on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Rupert Everett,  Julian Wadham
    Director: Marek Kanievska
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Thriller directed by Marek Kanievska and starring Rupert Everett and Sharon Stone. Sally (Stone) and Leo (Everett) are war reporters who cross paths while they are both on assignment in Beirut. When Everett's character goes missing, Stone's character begins an investigation on her own. She soon ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 96 members
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  • To Kill A King on DVD (2003)
    Starring: James Bolam,  Rupert Everett,  Julian Rhind-Tutt
    Director: Mike Barker
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mike Barker's costume drama is set 1645 when England is coming out of a civil war. The New Model Army have defeated the Royalist forces and King Charles I (Rupert Everett) is now imprisoned. General Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) celebrates with his deputy Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) but they don't ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,692 members
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  • Unconditional Love (2002)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Julie Andrews,  Kathy Bates
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A comic murder-mystery. Grace Beasly (Kathy Bates) finds her placid Midwestern life turned upside down when her husband (Dan Aykroyd) walks out on her and her favourite pop star, Victor Fox (Jonathan Pryce), is murdered by a serial killer. She teams up with Dirk Simpson (Rupert Everett), Fox's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,478 members
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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.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 15 members
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  • The Next Best Thing on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mark Valley,  Michael Vartan,  Rupert Everett
    Director: John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When Abbie (Madonna) and her gay best friend Robert (Rupert Everett) drunkenly conceive a child together, she asks him if he would move in and raise the child with her. Five years later, with Robert, Abbie and the child Sam having grown close as a family, Abbie meets and falls in love with the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,623 member
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  • Inspector Gadget on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Michelle Trachtenberg,  Joely Fisher
    Director: David Kellogg
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    John Brown (Matthew Broderick) is an inept security guard employed by scientist Artemus Bradford and his daughter Brenda (Joely Fisher) to safeguard their work on the synthesis of robotics and human tissue. When the Bradfords' arch-rival Sanford Scolex steals their work, John gives chase, and both ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,940 member
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  • An Ideal Husband on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Jeremy Northam,  Jeroen Krabbe
    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 63% from 4,346 members
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  • Shakespeare In Love on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Imelda Staunton,  Anthony Sher
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This Tom Stoppard penned period comedy won seven Oscars, including those for Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress (Judi Dench) and Original Screenplay. In late 16th Century London, the theatre's most promising young playwright, Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), is suffering from writer's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 32,174 members
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  • B. Monkey (1998)
    Starring: Asia Argento,  Jared Harris,  Rupert Everett
    Director: Michael Radford
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    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 61% from 118 members
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  • My Best Friend's Wedding - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: S,  Rupert Everett,  Rose Abdoo
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) has just realised that she is in love with her best friend Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney), but there's a problem: Michael has recently announced his up-coming marriage to the hare-brained Kimmy (Cameron Diaz). Enlisting the help of her gay friend George Downes (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 945 members
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  • My Best Friend's Wedding on DVD (1997)
    Starring: S,  Rupert Everett,  Rose Abdoo
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) has just realised that she is in love with her best friend Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney), but there's a problem: Michael has recently announced his up-coming marriage to the hare-brained Kimmy (Cameron Diaz). Enlisting the help of her gay friend George Downes (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 20,669 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 12 members
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  • Princess Daisy on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Paul Mich,  Barbara Bach,  Rupert Everett
    Director: Waris Hussein
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Princess Daisy (Merete van Kamp) is the daughter of a Russian prince and a Hollywood actress, but her childhood is unhappy. As a young woman she arrives in America penniless, only to work her way up to become a top supermodel. She also has two men fighting for her affections; a Madison Avenue big-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 212 members
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  • Dance With A Stranger on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Matthew Carroll,  Rupert Everett,  Ian Holm
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The true story of Ruth Ellis, the ex-prostitute and mother of two who became the last person to be hanged for murder in England. Working as a hostess in a Soho nightclub, Ellis (Miranda Richardson) finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed with her upper-class lover David Blakely (Rupert Everett)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 764 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 3,937 members
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Rupert Everett facts

5 most recent films

Justin and the Knights of Valour - 3 stars
Parade's End - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Parade's End - 3.5 stars
Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror - 3.5 stars
Hysteria - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shrek 2 - 3D Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Stardust - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Stardust - 4.0 stars
Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror - 3.5 stars
Shrek 2 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Justin and the Knights of Valour - 3 stars
Paragraph 175 - 3.0 stars
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - 3.5 stars
And Quiet Flows The Don - 2.5 stars
The Comfort Of Strangers - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Colin Firth - 16 times - show films
Tom Wilkinson - 9 times - show films
Judi Dench - 9 times - show films
Cameron Diaz - 6 times - show films
Ricky Gervais - 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
Peter Webb - 4 times - show films