Famous English actor Rupert Everett, Madonna’s co-star in “The next best thing” and Julia Robert’s in “My best friends wedding,” is proving himself also as an author of documentaries, said the “Guardian.” His newest creation is dedicated to the life and travels of the most romantic Hellenic lover in world history – the poet Lord Byron. The actor follows the traveler’s foot steps from Portugal, through Switzerland, Italy, Albania, Turkey, and of course to Byron’s greatest love – Greece.

The film is called “Rupert Everett – in search for Byron,” it is in two 60 min. parts and will mark the 200 anniversary of the poet’s legendary travels. The movie will be shown next year on the British Channel 4. “I love anti-heroes, and Byron is one of the 19th century's great misfits. His story has everything: incest, sodomy, drugs, scandal, madness and war. But would we have found Byron as electrifying and seductive as his contemporaries did? Is his genius still relevant? Are his poems fresh or are they dried flowers?," asks Rupert Everett in his last documentary.

“Rupert Everett – in search for Byron” being made by independent production company Blast! and will be produced by Ed Coulthard and Grant McKee, with Michael Waldman directing. This is the second history documentary, which Rupert Everett makes after the successful film he made about Sir Richard Burton. “Rupert's documentary about Richard Burton was among the brightest and most engaging history programs of the year. Going in search of Byron is an even more exciting venture and I'm confident that a new portrait of the great romantic adventurer will emerge,” said Ralph Lee, director of Channel 4, who has commissioned the program.

Lord Byron was born in 1788 in London and died 1824 in Messolongi, Greece. From young, he visits Greece for the first time and is taken by the beauty and culture of the country. He personally engages in the freedom fight against the Ottoman Empire, but doesn’t manage to see it completely free, because he dies from fever while fighting with the Turks.