Editing Rupert Everett (section)

==Early life and education==
Rupert James Hector Everett was born on 29 May 1959, to wealthy parents.<ref name=bfibio>{{cite web |title=Everett, Rupert (1959—&thinsp;) Biography |website=BFI Screenonline |date=29 May 1959 |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/865655/index.html |access-date=17 September 2022 |author=Brian McFarlane |agency=Encyclopedia of British Film }}</ref> His father was in the [[British Army]], Major Anthony Michael Everett. His maternal grandfather, [[Vice Admiral (Royal Navy)|Vice Admiral]] Sir Hector Charles Donald MacLean [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]],<ref name=genealogist/> was a nephew of Scottish recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], [[Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1422912/Vice-Admiral-Sir-Hector-MacLean.html |title=Vice Admiral Sir Hector MacLean obituary |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=24 February 2003 }}</ref> His maternal grandmother, Opre Vyvyan, was a descendant of the [[baronet]]s [[Vyvyan family|Vyvyan of Trelowarren]] and the German {{lang|de|[[Freiherr]]}} ([[Baron]]) von Schmiedern. Everett is of English, [[Irish migration to Great Britain|Irish]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]], and more distant German and Dutch ancestry.<ref name=genealogist>{{Cite web| url=https://www.thegenealogist.com/featuredarticles/2010/rupert-everetts-roots-90/ |title=Rupert Everett – ''Who Do You Think You Are'' – A broad heritage with ancestors in the south and north of England, Wales and Scotland... |website=The Genealogist |year=2010 |access-date=3 September 2016 }}</ref> He was raised a [[Roman Catholic]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3655414/Rupert-unleashed-and-unloved.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3655414/Rupert-unleashed-and-unloved.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Rupert – unleashed and unloved |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=UK |date=2 October 2006 |access-date=11 September 2010 |first=Jan |last=Moir |author-link=Jan Moir }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

From age seven, Everett was educated at [[Farleigh School]] in [[Andover, Hampshire]], and later educated by [[Benedictine monks]] at [[Ampleforth College]], Yorkshire. When he was 16, 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]]. In an interview with [[Us (magazine)|''US'' magazine]] in 1997, he said that he supported himself during this period by doing [[sex work]] for drugs and money.<ref>{{cite news |last=Farndale |first=Nigel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3577920/The-ascent-of-Everett.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3577920/The-ascent-of-Everett.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=The ascent of Everett |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=UK |date= 22 May 2002|access-date=15 December 2008 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>