All All. Sign In. Some on this list never came out but are thought to be gay, etc. List activity. Jussie Smollett. Actor Producer Director Empire — Rupert Everett. Of royal stock, he is of primarily English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry with a dash of German and Dutch thrown in for good measure. Everett grew up in privileged circumstances, but the wry, sometimes arrogant intellectual was a rebel from the very beginning.
At the age of seven, he was placed into the care of Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College where he trained classically on the piano. He was expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London for clashing with his teachers and instead apprenticed himself at the avant-garde Glasgow Citizen's Theatre in Scotland, performing in such productions as "Don Juan" and "Heartbreak House.
In , Everett filmed a leading gay role in the acclaimed collegiate-themed picture Another Country , which he had performed earlier on stage in Again, however, the wickedly sharp and suave actor doused his own star fire by clashing with the press and even his own fans in the late 's. In , Everett openly and proudly declared his homosexuality which put an initial damper on his status as a romantic leading man. On the lighter, fun side, his predilection for mischief was demonstrated as the cartoonish villain Dr.
Claw, the nemesis of Matthew Broderick 's title character, in Inspector Gadget Into the millennium, Rupert continued to be a vibrant presence on stage with a tour of "Private Lives" in Italian in , a Broadway revival of "Blithe Spirit" his New York debut and as Henry Higgins in Shaw's "Pygmalion" in Munich the following year.
Known for his aloof handsomeness and often smug, piss-elegant characters, he engagingly portrayed a jet-setter in the contemporary film People ; provided the voice of the unprincely Prince Charming in the animated features Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third ; played a British defector opposite Sharon Stone in the romantic thriller A Different Loyalty ; a millionaire playboy involved in a hit-and-run in Separate Lies ; an eccentric tycoon in Hysteria ; King George VI father of Queen Elizabeth opposite Emily Watson 's Queen Mum in the romantic dramedy A Royal Night Out ; a monsignor in If I Had a Heart ; and tortured gay playwright Oscar Wilde during his last days in The Happy Prince , which he wrote and directed.
