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Geoffrey Rush
Rush at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Geoffrey Roy Rush 6 July 1951 (1951-07-06) (age 58) Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981 – present
Spouse(s)	Jane Menelaus (1988–present)

Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. As of November 2009, he is one of 22 people to have won the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. He has also won the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, the Screen Actors Guild and the Australian Film Institute awards.¹

Contents 1 Early life 2 Stage career 3 Film career 4 Personal life 5 Filmography 5.1 Other awards 6 References 7 External links

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.²³ His parents divorced when he was five and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in the Brisbane suburbs.⁴ Before he began his acting career, Rush attended Everton Park State High School. He also has an arts degree from the University of Queensland.⁵ While at university he was talent-spotted by Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) in Brisbane. Rush began his career in with QTC in 1971, appearing in 17 productions.

In 1975, Rush went to 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 with QTC.³ 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.³⁴⁵

Stage career

Rush made his theatre debut in Queensland Theatre Company's production of Wrong Side of the Moon. He worked with the company for four years, appearing in roles ranging across classical plays to pantomime, from Juno and the Paycock to Hamlet on Ice. Following these early years in Brisbane, Rush left to Paris where he studied further.

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. He has worked as a theatre director.

Rush's acting 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 Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest as John Worthing (Ernest) (in which his wife, Jane Menelaus, appeared as Gwendolen).

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 Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne and Company B in Sydney, directed by Neil Armfield.

Rush made his Broadway debut in a restaging of Exit the King under Malthouse Theatre's touring moniker Malthouse Melbourne. This restaging featured a new American cast including Susan Sarandon. The show opened on 26 March 2009 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Other cast includes Lauren Ambrose, Andrea Martin, William Sadler, and Brian Hutchison. Geoffrey won the Outer Critics Circle Award, Theatre World Award, and Drama Desk Award, as well as the Distinguished Performance Award from the Drama League Award, and was the winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.

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-born actor to win an Oscar.

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, for which he won a BAFTA Award; 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 film 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 film 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, a SAG Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture made for Television. 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 has confirmed that he is returning as Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp, who has signed on to return as Captain Jack Sparrow as of September 2008. The probable story will be them going to find the fountain of youth, a story revealed at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

In the beginning of 2009, Rush appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps featuring some of Australia's internationally recognised actors. He, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series, in a contemporary portrait, and as one of their notable characters. Rush's film image is taken from Shine.⁶

Personal life

Geoffrey Rush moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney.⁷ Rush lives in Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne.⁸ 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 developers⁹ and championing a National Trust of Australia (Victoria) poll for the Victorian Heritage Icons Awards.¹⁰

He is also Patron of the Spina Bifida Foundation of Victoria, a charity which was co-founded by his late father-in-law, Malcolm Menelaus, a well-respected Australian orthopaedic surgeon.

Since 1988, Rush has been married to actress Jane Menelaus, with whom he has a daughter, Angelica (born 1992) and a son, James (born 1995).^1112131415

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1981	Hoodwink	Detective 1
	Menotti		TV Series
1982	Starstruck	Floor Manager
1987	Twelfth Night	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1996	Shine	David Helfgott (adult)	Academy Award for Best Actor Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for Best Actor - Male Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Society of Texas Film Critics Awards for Best Actor Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
	Mercury	Bill Wyatt	TV series
	Children of the Revolution	Zachary Welch
1997	Frontier	Soldier Administrator David Collins	TV mini-series
	Oscar and Lucinda	Narrator	(voice)
1998	A Little Bit of Soul	Godfrey Usher	Nominated — Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
	Elizabeth	Sir Francis Walsingham	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor also for Shakespeare in Love
	Les Misérables	Inspector Javert
	Shakespeare in Love	Philip Henslowe	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor - Comedy/Romance Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor also for Elizabeth Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
1999	Mystery Men	Casanova Frankenstein
	House on Haunted Hill	Stephen H. Price
2000	Quills	Marquis de Sade	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
	The Magic Pudding	Bunyip Bluegum	(voice)
2001	The Tailor of Panama	Harold 'Harry' Pendel
	Lantana	John Knox
2002	Frida	Leon Trotsky
	The Banger Sisters	Harry Plummer
2003	Swimming Upstream	Harold Fingleton	Nominated — Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for Best Actor - Male Nominated — Inside Film Awards for Best Actor
	Ned Kelly	Superintendent Francis Hare
	Finding Nemo	Nigel	(voice)
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Captain Hector Barbossa	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Villain Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Intolerable Cruelty	Donovan Donaly
	Harvie Krumpet	Narrator	(voice)
2004	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Peter Sellers	Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated — British Independent Film Award for Best Actor Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
2005	Munich	Mossad case officer Ephraim	Nominated — Washington DC Area Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actor
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Captain Hector Barbossa	uncredited
	Candy	Casper	Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Captain Hector Barbossa
	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Sir Francis Walsingham
2008	$9.99	Angel	(voice)
2009	Bran Nue Dae	Father Benedictus
2010	The Warrior's Way	Ron	completed
	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue	post-production
	Legend of the Guardians	unknown	post-production (voice)
	Lowdown	Narrator	post-production (voice)

Other awards

• Awarded an Honourary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Queensland, in Australia.
• Awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to the arts especially through a distinguished acting career.
• 2003 — Australian Film Institute Awards - Global Achievement Award
• 2004 — Brisbane International Film Festival - Chauvel Award
• 2003 — Hollywood Film Festival for Supporting Actor of the Year
• 1994 — Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Geoffrey Rush

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Geoffrey Rush

• Geoffrey Rush at the Internet Movie Database
• Geoffrey Rush at the Internet Broadway Database
• Geoffrey Rush — Australian Film Commission
• Geoffrey Rush — Stage acting credits
• The Cinematic Hats of Geoffrey Rush
• Professional photographs of Geoffrey Rush — National Library of Australia

Awards for Geoffrey Rush v • d • e Academy Award for Best Actor Henry Fonda (1981) · Ben Kingsley (1982) · Robert Duvall (1983) · F. Murray Abraham (1984) · William Hurt (1985) · Paul Newman (1986) · Michael Douglas (1987) · Dustin Hoffman (1988) · Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) · Jeremy Irons (1990) · Anthony Hopkins (1991) · Al Pacino (1992) · Tom Hanks (1993)  · Tom Hanks (1994) · Nicolas Cage (1995) · Geoffrey Rush (1996) · Jack Nicholson (1997) · Roberto Benigni (1998) · Kevin Spacey (1999) · Russell Crowe (2000) Complete List · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present) v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie Kenneth Branagh (2001) · Albert Finney (2002) · William H. Macy (2003) · Al Pacino (2004) · Geoffrey Rush (2005) · Andre Braugher (2006) · Robert Duvall (2007) · Paul Giamatti (2008) · Brendan Gleeson (2009) Complete list: (1952–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–present) v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Henry Fonda (1981) · Ben Kingsley (1982) · Robert Duvall (1983) · F. Murray Abraham (1984) · Jon Voight (1985) · Bob Hoskins (1986) · Michael Douglas (1987) · Dustin Hoffman (1988) · Tom Cruise (1989) · Jeremy Irons (1990) · Nick Nolte (1991) · Al Pacino (1992) · Tom Hanks (1993) · Tom Hanks (1994) · Nicolas Cage (1995) · Geoffrey Rush (1996) · Peter Fonda (1997) · Jim Carrey (1998) · Denzel Washington (1999) · Tom Hanks (2000) Complete List · (1943–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present) v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Brian Dennehy (2000) · James Franco (2001) · Albert Finney (2002) · Al Pacino (2003) · Geoffrey Rush (2004) · Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2005) · Bill Nighy (2006) · Jim Broadbent (2007) · Paul Giamatti (2008) · Kevin Bacon (2009) Complete List · (1981-1999) · (2000-present) v • d • e BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role John Hurt (1980) · Burt Lancaster (1981) · Ben Kingsley (1982) · Michael Caine (1983) · Haing S. Ngor (1984) · William Hurt (1985) · Bob Hoskins (1986) · Sean Connery (1987) · John Cleese (1988) · Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) · Philippe Noiret (1990) · Anthony Hopkins (1991) · Robert Downey, Jr. (1992) · Anthony Hopkins (1993) · Hugh Grant (1994) · Nigel Hawthorne (1995) · Geoffrey Rush (1996) · Robert Carlyle (1997) · Roberto Benigni (1998) · Kevin Spacey (1999) Complete List · (1952–1979) · (1981–1999) · (2000–present) v • d • e Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Tom Hanks (1994) · Nicolas Cage (1995) · Geoffrey Rush (1996) · Jack Nicholson (1997) · Roberto Benigni (1998) · Kevin Spacey (1999) · Benicio del Toro (2000) Complete list · (1994-2000) · (2001-present) v • d • e Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Raúl Juliá (1994) · Gary Sinise (1995) · Alan Rickman (1996) · Gary Sinise (1997) · Christopher Reeve (1998) · Jack Lemmon (1999) · Brian Dennehy (2000) · Ben Kingsley (2001) · William H. Macy (2002) · Al Pacino (2003) · Geoffrey Rush (2004) · Paul Newman (2005) · Jeremy Irons (2006) · Kevin Kline (2007) · Paul Giamatti (2008) · Kevin Bacon (2009) v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Richard Easton (2001) · Alan Bates (2002) · Brian Dennehy (2003) · Jefferson Mays (2004) · Bill Irwin (2005) · Richard Griffiths (2006) · Frank Langella (2007) · Mark Rylance (2008) · Geoffrey Rush (2009) Complete list: (1947–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–present)