Favorite Birthday Boy #2 for May 29th

 Rupert Everett
From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things

 Rupert Everett is an amazing talent. Some of his early work on British television and in movies such as Duet For One, Another Country, The Comfort of Strangers, Cemetery Man to name a few were great films with even greater performances by Rupert. It appears to me, although many knew Rupert was gay for many years, his official 'coming out' altered his ability to get great roles. Besides My Best Friends Wedding, Rupert has appeared to struggle to get good parts in recent years. Very sad indeed. The Talented Mr. Everett turns 55 today.

 Rupert James Hector Everett (/ˈɛvərɪt/; born 29 May 1959) is an English actor and writer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as an openly gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s. He has since appeared in many other films, including My Best Friend's Wedding, An Ideal Husband, The Next Best Thing and the Shrek sequels.

 Everett was born in Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, to Major Anthony Michael Everett (1921–2009), who worked in business and served in the British Army, and wife Sara (née Maclean). His maternal grandfather, Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald Maclean, was a nephew of Scottish military man Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean, who received the Victoria Cross.His maternal grandmother, Opre Vyvyan, was a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Freiherr (Baron) von Schmiedern. He has a brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett (born 1956). Everett was brought up as a Roman Catholic.

 From the age of seven, Everett was educated at Farleigh School, Hampshire, and later was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire; he left school at 16 and ran away to London to become an actor. In order to support himself during this time, he worked as a prostitute for drugs and money—he disclosed this information in an interview for US magazine in 1997. After being dismissed from the Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London) for insubordination, he traveled to Scotland and got a job at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.

 Between 2006 and 2010, Everett lived in New York,  but returned to London due his father's poor health. In 2008, Everett purchased a home in the west London district of Belgravia.