Biography
Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959) is an English actor, director and producer. Everett first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination. He received a second BAFTA nomination and his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), followed by a second Golden Globe...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Judas' Gospel
2025
as Caiaphas
An innovative approach in retelling the tale of Judas Iscariot, known for his biblical betrayal of Jesus when he disclosed his whereabouts for 30 piec...

Juliet & Romeo
2025
as Lord Capulet
Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, our most famous star-crossed lovers turn the tides on the history Shakespeare based his own story on, as the...

Legend Has It
2025
as Zhal
After his mother disappeared when he was a child, Daruosh, has always struggled to find his place in the world. But when this misfit teenager, stumble...

Napoleon
2023
as Duke of Wellington
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his add...

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023
as Noël Coward (voice)
The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality ...

My Policeman
2022
as Patrick
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous...

She Will
2022
as Tirador
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious f...

Warning
2021
as Charlie
Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019
as Sir Hugh Rose
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India ...

Muse
2019
as Demon
Luca is the pre-eminent artist of his generation and at the peak of his career, lauded, feted and collected by all. He is the ultimate showman however...

The Happy Prince
2018
as Oscar Wilde
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....

The Happy Prince
2018
Screenplay, Director
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....

And the Winner Isn't
2017
as Self
A satirical documentary charting Geoffrey Moore and his daughter Ambra’s journey through Hollywood, as the pair track down celebrities and industry in...

Love, Cecil
2017
as Narrator (voice)
A documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist, and set designer, Beaton was best known for...

50 Shades of Gay
2017
50 years after decriminalization of homosexuality in Great Britain, actor Rupert Everett explores the way both the gay community and public attitude t...

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
as Ornithologist
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroyin...

There's Something About Romcoms
2016
as Self
The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulrooney, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander, Stephen Merc...

Finding Altamira
2016
as Monseñor
The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira c...

A Royal Night Out
2015
as King George
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in ...

Rosenn
2014
as Lewis Lafoly
A famous English writer, Lewis Lafoly, forty and languidly elegant, meets Rosennn Auroch, a young and radiant woman on Bourbon Island in the Indian Oc...

The Return
2013
as Journalist
In December 1953, Coco Chanel began her incredible return to center stage. The designer reopens her Haute Couture house after fifteen years of absence...

Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
as Sota (voice)
A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.

Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011
as Self
A making-of for the Shrek series.

Hysteria
2011
as Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

Wild Target
2010
as Ferguson
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficienc...

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009
as Camilla Fritton / Captain Archibald Fritton / Fortnam Fritton
After a wealthy philanthropist expresses an unusual interest in a ring found by her niece Annabelle, Miss Fritton explains that she's descended from a...

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009
Executive Producer
After a wealthy philanthropist expresses an unusual interest in a ring found by her niece Annabelle, Miss Fritton explains that she's descended from a...
Hi Society: The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam
2009
Nicky Haslam, renowned socialite, bon viveur, wit and best friend to all is also one of the world's most respected and highly paid interior designers,...

The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron
2009
“The first rockstar”, “Crazy, evil and dangerous”. This is how Rupert Everett introduces us to the British romantic poet Lord Byron. Between 1809 and ...

Victorian Sex Explorer
2008
as Narrator
Part history, part travelogue, Victorian Sex Explorer is a revealing, witty journey through Queen Victoria’s Empire, from the late 1830s to the turn o...

Victorian Sex Explorer
2008
Writer
Part history, part travelogue, Victorian Sex Explorer is a revealing, witty journey through Queen Victoria’s Empire, from the late 1830s to the turn o...

St Trinian's
2007
as Camilla Fritton / Carnaby Fritton
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless p...

St Trinian's
2007
Executive Producer
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless p...

Stardust
2007
as Secundus
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the ...

Shrek the Third
2007
as Prince Charming (voice)
The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. However, Shrek wants to return to his cozy swamp and live in peace a...

Quiet Flows The Don
2006
as Grigory
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthl...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
as Mr. Fox (voice)
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kin...

Separate Lies
2005
as Bill Bule
Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
as Sherlock Holmes
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr....

A Different Loyalty
2004
as Leo Cauffield
In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for B...

A Different Loyalty
2004
Executive Producer
In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for B...

Stage Beauty
2004
as King Charles II
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because th...

Shrek 2
2004
as Prince Charming (voice)
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after. Shrek...

People - Jet set 2
2004
as Charles de Poulignac
John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and...

To Kill a King
2003
as King Charles I
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.

The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
as Sloan Blackburn (voice)
Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie's life is in danger, and Eliza migh...

Forever Ealing
2002
as Self
This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War I...

Unconditional Love
2002
as Dirk Simpson
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the l...

The Importance of Being Earnest
2002
as Algernon “Algy” Moncrieff
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using ...

South Kensington
2001
as Nick
A London aristocrat (Rupert Everett) rents out rooms in his posh estate to a pair of Italians who are wooing two wealthy British gals (Elle Macpherson...

The Next Best Thing
2000
as Robert Whittaker
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, ...

Paragraph 175
2000
as Narrator (voice)
During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Tho...

Inspector Gadget
1999
as Sanford Scolex / Dr. Claw
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a labo...

B. Monkey
1999
as Paul Neville
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
as Oberon
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic enta...

An Ideal Husband
1999
as Lord Arthur Goring
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London w...

Shakespeare in Love
1998
as Christopher Marlowe
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman a...

My Best Friend's Wedding
1997
as George Downes
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter rea...

Pierre and Gilles, Love Stories
1997
Pierre's the photographer, Gilles is the painter. This video follows the pair of French artists for one year as they team to concoct their patented bi...

Dunston Checks In
1996
as Lord Rutledge
Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a vil...

The Madness of King George
1994
as Prince of Wales
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confu...

Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Jack Lowenthal
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994
Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda ...

Shooting Angels
1994
Once upon a time there lived a crazy sculptor who tried to make a sculpture of God, but the statue lacked something. As it turned out, it lacked a mag...

Cemetery Man
1994
as Francesco Dellamorte
Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.

Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992
as Sasha
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.

The Comfort of Strangers
1990
as Colin
An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

Tolérance
1989
as Assuerus, aka Horace Walop
An English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a...

Hearts of Fire
1987
as James Colt
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her ...

The Right Hand Man
1987
as Lord Harry Ironminster
A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.

The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987
as David Lattes
A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.

Getting to Dylan
1987
as Self
In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in th...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
as Bayardo San Roman
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by d...

Duet for One
1986
as Constantine Kassanis
When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another wo...

Arthur the King
1985
as Lancelot
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunatel...

Dance with a Stranger
1985
as David Blakeley
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for Da...

Another Country
1984
as Guy Bennett
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contribut...

Real Life
1984
as Tim
A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble.

The Bloody Chamber
1983
A beautiful teenage girl, marries an older, wealthy French Marquis, whom she does not love. He gifts her a choker made of rubies, warning her against ...

Dead on Time
1983
as Bank Customer/Blind Man
Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes to...

Soft Targets
1982
as Boy at Party
Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.

A Shocking Accident
1982
as Jerome Weathersby
A Shocking Accident is a 1982 British short comedy film directed by James Scott, based on Graham Greene's short story by the same name. About a boy wh...

Lost and Found in Paris
N/A
Follows an unruly teenager sent by his exasperated parents to live with a Parisian socialite family to learn French and grow up.
Out Late
N/A
as Edmond
Recent widower Angelo is forced to confront a deeply hidden personal truth when he meets and strikes up an unlikely friendship with openly gay dancer ...
The Temptation Of Gracie
N/A
Gracie Burton, an ordinary widow who lives quietly in Devon, splashes out on a week’s cookery course at a beautiful castello in Italy. Unbeknownst to ...

The Ivy
N/A
as Narrator
At the heart of London’s theatreland, The Ivy’s renowned décor and dining experience has earned it a global fame on a par with its star-studded client...
Lead Heads
N/A
A drama about greed, the film will focus on a group of men corrupted by greed, who, in their desperation, are drawn together for one night to play a g...

The Liar
N/A
as Humphrey Biffen
Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ability to consummately cheat and deceive is a skill...

Madfabulous
N/A
Set in the late 19th century, Henry Cyril Paget is the flamboyant fifth Marquess of Anglesey whose behaviour and extravagance have modern echoes.
The Light Fantastic
N/A
as Reynolds
Jason, a 30-something gay firefighter who dreams of becoming a professional ballroom dancer. Set in the vibrant heart of the British seaside town of B...

Lost and Found in Paris
N/A
Director
Follows an unruly teenager sent by his exasperated parents to live with a Parisian socialite family to learn French and grow up.