He claims that 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. When he was sixteen, his parents agreed that he could leave school and move to London to train as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. įrom the age of seven, Everett was educated at Farleigh School in Andover, Hampshire, and later educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire. Everett is of English, Irish, Scottish, and more distant German and Dutch ancestry. His maternal grandmother, Opre Vyvyan, was a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Freiherr ( Baron) von Schmiedern. His maternal grandfather, Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald MacLean, was a nephew of Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean. He has an older brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett (born 1956). His father served in the British Army during World War II and later worked in business. Rupert James Hector Everett was born on in Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, to Major Anthony Michael (1921–2009) and Sara Everett (née Maclean b.
