Mauboy to star alongside Geoffrey Rush
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Nine MSN - Found Nov. 19, 2008 Australian Idol contestant Jessica Mauboy could soon be a sought-after actor thanks to a starring role alongside Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush. |
Mauboy to star alongside Geoffrey Rush
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OptusNet - Found Nov. 19, 2008 Australian Idol contestant Jessica Mauboy could soon be a sought-after actor thanks to a starring role alongside Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush. |
Mauboy to star alongside Geoffrey Rush
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The West Online - Found Nov. 19, 2008 Australian Idol contestant Jessica Mauboy could soon be a sought-after actor thanks to a starring role alongside Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush. |
Mauboy gets acting tips from Geoffrey Rush in new role
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National Indigenous Times - Found Nov. 18, 2008 ... music star, Indigenous singer Jessica Mauboy could soon be a sought-after actor thanks to a starring role alongside Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush. |
Pamela Anderson to appear on Kath & Kim
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Sydney Morning Herald - Found Nov. 17, 2008 Australia's original Kath & Kim TV sitcom recruited Kylie Minogue, Shane Warne and Geoffrey Rush as guest stars. Pammie inflates Kath & Kim spin-off - Herald Sun Pam inflates Kath & Kim - Tasmania Mercury Kath & Kim: Pammie inflates Kath & Kim spin-off - The Australian Explore All |
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Alarm over music academy spreads
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The Age - Found Nov. 17, 2008 ... and the MSO's Oleg Caetani, have also signed, along with theatre personalities Barry Humphries, Geoffrey Rush, Anthony Warlow and Neil... Artists plead to keep academy - The Australian The open letter - The Age Alarm over music academy spreads - WA Today.com.au Explore All |
Pam Anderson Joins Struggling Sitcom 'Kath & Kim'
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FOXNews.com - Found Nov. 15, 2008 Australia's original 'Kath & Kim' recruited Kylie Minogue, Shane Warne and Geoffrey Rush as guest stars. Pamela Anderson to do a Kylie - Sydney Morning Herald What a hornbag! Pammy to star in Kath & Kim - The Age Pamela Anderson to guest star in US Kath and Kim - ABC Online Pammie roped in to boost American 'Kath and Kim' ratings - NetIndia123.com Explore All |
Nine MSN |
Pam Anderson to star in Kath and Kim
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Herald Sun - Found Nov. 14, 2008 Article from: AAP Font size: Decrease Increase : Email : Print AUSTRALIA'S original Kath & Kim recruited Kylie Minogue, Shane Warne and Geoffrey Rush ... Pamela Anderson Makes A Cameo Appearance On 'Kath & Kim' - Starpulse Pam Anderson to stop by 'Kath & Kim' - UPI 7:17amPam Anderson to star in Kath and Kim - Herald Sun 7:17am Pam Anderson to star in Kath... - The Australian Explore All |
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Geoffrey Rush's musical film
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Stv.tv - Found Oct. 31, 2008 Geoffrey Rush is to star in a musical. |
Movie will show White House butler did it all (Reuters)
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Yahoo! News Australia - Found 14 hours ago 5:45 pm Related Articles Italy fetes half century of Fellini's Dolce Vita November 20, 2008, 12:36 am Mauboy to star alongside Geoffrey Rush November ... Columbia tells White House butler story - Hollywood Reporter Movie Will Show White House Butler Did It All - ABC News Sony serves up story of D.C. 'Butler' - Variety Movie will show White House butler did it all - Reuters Explore All |
Geoffrey Rush Biography
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Geoffrey Rush
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Rush at the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, May 2007 |
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| Born | Geoffrey Roy Rush 6 July 1951 Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Menelaus (1988-) |
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, Emmy-, AFI- and Academy Award-winning Australian actor. He is the first Australian-born person to win an Academy Award for acting. He is also the only Australian person to win it playing an Australian character (although American Linda Hunt won one for playing an Australian character in The Year of Living Dangerously).
Originally a Queenslander from regional Toowoomba, Rush moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney1 and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria.2
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Biography
Early life
Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, the son of Merle (née Kiehne), a department store sales clerk, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force.34 His parents divorced when he was five, and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in the suburbs.5 Before he began his acting career, Rush attended Everton Park State High School. He began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane. In 1975, Rush took off for Paris for a couple of years, and studied mime and pantomime at the famous L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq School of Mime, before returning to Australia to resume his stage career.4 He also has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland.6 In 1979, he shared an apartment with actor Mel Gibson for four months, while they co-starred in a stage production of Waiting for Godot.456
Stage career
Rush has appeared on stage for Company B, and for the Queensland Theatre Company and the Brisbane Arts Theatre, as well as in many other theatre venues, and has worked as a theatre director.
His credits include William Shakespeare's plays, The Winter's Tale (with the South Australia Theatre Company in 1987 at The Playhouse in Adelaide), and Troilus and Cressida (at the Old Museum Building in 1989). He also appeared in an on-going production of The Importance of Being Earnest as John Worthingcitation needed.
In September 1998, Rush played the title role in the Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro for the Queensland Theatre Company. This was the opening production of the Optus Playhouse, at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank in Brisbane. A pun on Geoffrey Rush's name (and the circumstances), was used in the opening prologue of the play with the comment that the "Optus Playhouse was opening with a Rush".
In 2007, he starred as King Berenger in a production of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne and Company B in Sydney, directed by Neil Armfield.
Film career
Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year. In 1996, he starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Australian actor to win an Oscar since Peter Finch. From that point on, his film career skyrocketed.
In 1998, he appeared in three major films: Les Misérables, in which he played Inspector Javert; Elizabeth, in which he played the suspicious Sir Francis Walsingham; and Shakespeare in Love in which he played Philip Henslowe, the acting company manager who remained calm in the midst of chaos (and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor). In 1999, Rush departured from his usual dramatic stint and took the lead role as Steven Price in the horror flick House on Haunted Hill. In 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played the Marquis de Sade.
Rush's career continued at a fast pace, with nine films released from 2001 through 2003. He starred in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Hector Barbossa, also appearing in its sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Rush reprised his character's voice for the enhancements at the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom theme parks, which involved an Audio-Animatronic with Rush's likeness being installed (including one at Tokyo Disneyland).citation needed He also voiced Nigel the pelican in Finding Nemo.
Rush played actor Peter Sellers in the television film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. For this performance, he won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Mini-series or Movie. In 2005, he starred in Steven Spielberg's film Munich as Ephraim, a cold Mossad officer.
In 2006, Rush hosted the Australian Film Institute Awards for the Nine Network. He was the master of ceremonies again at the 2007 AFI Awards.
Rush is interested to return in Pirates of the Carribean 4 as Captain Hector Barbossa starring Johnny Depp who has signed on as of September 2008. If he does a probable story will be them going to find the fountain of youth a prospect raised in World's end.
Personal life
Rush lives in Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.2 He has become involved in the preservation of heritage and architecture, becoming a figurehead for a campaign for the preservation of Camberwell Railway Station from demolition by developers7 and championing a National Trust of Australia (Victoria) poll for the Victorian Heritage Icons Awards.8
Since 1988, Rush has been married to actress Jane Menelaus, with whom he has a daughter, Angelica (born 1992) and a son, James (born 9th Sep 1995).9 10 11 12 13
Filmography and awards
References
- ^ Travis Smiley's interview transcript with Geoffrey Rush
- ^ a b Rush to flat earth from heraldsun.com.au
- ^ Geoffrey Rush biography. Film Reference.com.
- ^ a b c Geoffrey Rush Biography. Tiscali.film & tv.
- ^ a b Geoffrey Rush biography. Yahoo! Movies.
- ^ a b Geoffrey Rush, 1997Academy award winner. Alumni at University of Queensland.
- ^ Actor Rush lifts lid on Camberwell station plan from theage.com.au
- ^ 2006 Heritage Icon announced | National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
- ^ Geoffrey Rush Biography — Theatre, Television and Film Biographies
- ^ Geoffrey Rush Biography — Tiscali
- ^ Geoffrey Rush Biography — Tribute
- ^ Geoffrey Rush Biography — Hollywood.com
- ^ Geoffrey Rush interview — The Independent
External links
- Geoffrey Rush at the Internet Movie Database
- Geoffrey Rush — Australian Film Commission
- Geoffrey Rush - Stage acting credits
- http://www.93950.com/rush/ - The Cinematic Hats of Geoffrey Rush
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George |
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1997 for Shine |
Succeeded by Robert Carlyle for The Full Monty |
| Preceded by Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama 1996 for Shine |
Succeeded by Peter Fonda for Ulee's Gold |
| Preceded by Tom Wilkinson for The Full Monty |
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1999 for Shakespeare in love |
Succeeded by Jude Law for The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| Preceded by Al Pacino for Angels in America |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television 2005 for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers |
Succeeded by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers for Elvis |
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Geoffrey Rush Videos and Clips
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Description: Segment 1: Geoffrey Rush, Actor, "Shine" segment 2: Dwight Yoakam, Singer / Songwriter / Actor, "Slingblade" Segment 3: An appreciation of ...
Description: Actor Geoffrey Rush (Captain Barbossa) talks about Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End and Jack the Monkey on Jimmy Kimmel live.
Description: For you Rushies out there who just want to see Geoffrey Rushs scenes in the movie "Intolerable Cruelty" without having to watch the whole movie.
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