Everett — O Brother, Where Art Thou? Character Profile

Everett — Character Profile

Quick Facts about Everett

Nationality

Greek

Everett's Known Relations

• Anticlea — Mother
• Laertes — Father
• Telemachus — Child
• Nausinous — Child
• Latinus — Child
• Auson — Child
• Telegonus — Child
• Cassiphone — Child
• Agrius — Child
• Nausithous — Child
• Arcesilaos — Child
• Leontophonus — Child
• Leontophron — Child
• Polypoetes — Child
• Poliporthes — Child
• Ardeas — Child
• Anteias — Child
• Ctimene — Sibling
• Calypso — Unmarried partner
• Circe — Unmarried partner
• Euippe — Unmarried partner
• Polymele — Unmarried partner
• Hals — Unmarried partner
• Callidice — Unmarried partner
• Penelope — Spouse

Everett appears in 3 titles

• Iphigenia (1977) — character page
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
• Troy (2004) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

George Clooney

Appears in

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (7)

• Everett — Conflict Adversarial Encounter — Siren (Christy Taylor)

  The encounter places Everett at the mercy of mysterious river women.

  Everett's group encounters three singing women near a river, accepts their corn whiskey, and loses consciousness before waking to discover that one co...

• Everett — Power Political Beneficiary — Pappy O'Daniel (Charles Durning)

  Pappy uses Everett's unexpected popularity to strengthen his political position while helping the group.

  Pappy O'Daniel seizes the opportunity created by the campaign-gala performance, endorses the Soggy Bottom Boys, and grants them full pardons.

• Everett — Conflict Pursuer And Fugitive — Sheriff Cooley (Daniel von Bargen)

  Cooley remains Everett's most persistent law-enforcement threat.

  Sheriff Cooley is alerted to the escapees, burns the barn where they sleep, later arrests them, and orders their hanging despite their claimed pardons...

• Everett — Conflict Political Enemies — Homer Stokes (Wayne Duvall)

  Homer represents the political and racist force opposing Everett's group.

  Everett's group sabotages the Klan rally led by Homer Stokes and later performs at his campaign gala. Homer recognizes them and demands their arrest.

• Everett — Alliance Temporary Allies — George Nelson (Michael Badalucco)

  Their alliance is brief, opportunistic, and shaped by life on the run.

  Everett's group briefly travels with George Nelson after meeting him during his bank-robbing spree. George later gives them his cash before walking aw...

• Everett — Alliance Teammates — Tommy Johnson (Chris Thomas King)

  Tommy becomes an important member of Everett's musical and survival alliance.

  Everett and the other escapees pick up Tommy Johnson, record a song with him as the Soggy Bottom Boys, rescue him from a lynching, and ask him to help...

• Everett — Romantic Estranged Spouses — Penny (Holly Hunter)

  Their broken marriage and Everett's attempt to restore it drive his personal goal.

  Everett confronts Penny after she has changed her last name and told their daughters that he was hit by a train. She later agrees to remarry him if he...

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• Pappy's Staff (Brian Reddy)
• Penny (Holly Hunter)
• George Nelson (Michael Badalucco)
• Tommy Johnson (Chris Thomas King)
• Pappy O'Daniel (Charles Durning)
• Junior O'Daniel (Del Pentecost)
• Homer Stokes (Wayne Duvall)
• Vernon T. Waldrip (Ray McKinnon)
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