Recent Projects
In recent years, Everett has returned to his acting roots appearing in several theatre productions; He made his Broadway debut in 2009 at the Shubert Theatre to good critical review, performing in a Noël Coward play, Blithe Spirit, starring alongside Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole and Jayne Atkinson, directed by Michael Blakemore. He was also expected to tour several Italian cities during the 2008–09 winter season in another Noël Coward play, Private Lives (performed in Italian, which he speaks fluently), playing Elyot to Italian actress Asia Argento's Amanda. However, production was cancelled and the play never opened. During the summer of 2010 he played in a revival of Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins next to English actress Honeysuckle Weeks, with Stephanie Cole in the role of the Professor's mother, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and reprised this role in May 2011, at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End, starring along side Diana Rigg as Professor Higgins mother and Kara Tointon as Eliza.
As for television projects, Everett has presented Channel 4 documentaries, one on Romantic poet Lord Byron's travels, broadcast in July 2009 and another on British explorer Sir Richard Burton. In July 2010, Everett was featured in the popular family history programme Who Do You Think You Are?
He also has a part in the comedy film Wild Target, starring Bill Nighy.
In 2012 he starred in the TV screen adaptation of Parade's End with Benedict Cumberbatch.
As of September 2012, Everett is starring as Oscar Wilde in the stage play The Judas Kiss, at London's Hampstead Theatre and in tours throughout the UK.
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