Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Rush at the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End with Jack the Monkey
Birth name	Geoffrey Roy Rush
Born	6 July 1951 (1951-07-06) (age 56) Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Spouse(s)	Jane Menelaus
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Biography

Early life

Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia to Merle Kiehne, a sales clerk, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Australian Air Force. His parents divorced when he was five, and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in the suburbs.^[1] Before he began his acting career, he 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 Jacques Le Coq School Of Mime, then returned to Australia to resume his stage career. He also has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland. While at university, he roomed with fellow Australian actor Mel Gibson. Toowoomba (also known as the The Garden City) is a city in South East Queensland, Australia. ... Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Peter Beattie (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 28  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $158,506 (3rd)  - Product per capita  $40,170/person (6th) Population (End of November 2006)  - Population  4,164,590 (3rd)  - Density  2. ... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, is a certified accountancy and financial expert in the jurisdiction of many countries. ... The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the Air Force branch of the Australian Defence Force. ... Everton Park State High School Everton Park State High School is a small school consisting of approximately 300 students located in Brisbane, Australia. ... Queensland Theatre Company was originally called the Royal Queensland Theatre Company (RQTC). ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia. ... A Mime artist on the Ponte SantAngelo A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. ... The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph bookcover, 1890 Pantomime (informally, panto) refers to a theatrical genre, traditionally found in Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Ireland, which is usually performed around the Christmas and New Year holiday season. ... The University of Queensland (UQ) is the longest-established university in the state of Queensland, Australia, and a member of Australias Group of Eight. ... Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American born Australian actor, director, and producer. ...

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. Company B is a renowned Australian theatre company based at the iconic Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney. ... Queensland Theatre Company was originally called the Royal Queensland Theatre Company (RQTC). ... The Brisbane Arts Theatre is a theatre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ...

Geoffrey Rush also appeared in the William Shakespeare plays, The Winter's Tale with the South Australia Theatre Company in 1987 (at The Playhouse in Adelaide, South Australia), and in 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 Worthing. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Florizel and Perdita by Charles Robert Leslie. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1. ... Capital Adelaide Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Premier Mike Rann (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 11  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $59,819 (5th)  - Product per capita  $38,838/person (7th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  1,558,200 (5th)  - Density  1. ... A Scene from Troilus and Cressida (1789) by Angelica Kauffmann Troilus and Cressida is a play by William Shakespeare. ... The Old Museum building is in Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde, a comedy of manners in either three or four acts (depending on edition) inspired by W. S. Gilberts Engaged. ...

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". Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (January 24, 1732 - May 18, 1799) was, among other accomplishments, a writer and librettist. ... Le nozze di Figaro ossia la folle giornata (Trans: ), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, Le mariage de Figaro (1784). ... Queensland Theatre Company was originally called the Royal Queensland Theatre Company (RQTC). ... Performing Arts Centre, South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland Part of the Queensland Cultural Centre, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, also known as QPAC, is situated at South Bank, Queensland, Australia, , near the Brisbane Central Business District (CBD). ... South Bank is part of the Brisbane suburb of South Brisbane and is located on the south bank area of the Brisbane River. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia. ... A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech, or word play which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ...

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. Eugène Ionesco (Romanian spelling: Eugen Ionescu) (November 26, 1912 - March 28, 1994) was one of the foremost playwrights of the theater of the absurd. ... Le Roi se meurt (English Exit the King) is an absurdist drama by Eugene Ionesco that premiered in 1962. ... The Malthouse Theatre (on the right), behind the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. ... Company B was formed in 1986 by Cuban-American producer Ish Ledesma, featuring members Lori L., Lezlee Livrano and Susan Johnson. ... Neil Armfield is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera. ...

Film career

Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was in 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. From that point on, his career skyrocketed. Gillian Armstrong (born December 18, 1950 in Melbourne, Australia) is a film director. ... StarStruck is the first reality-based talent search for teenagers on Philippine television in recent history. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Shine is a 1996 Australian film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...

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 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 Stephen Price in the horror flick House on Haunted Hill. Many fans praised Rush for his dead on portrayal of the late Vincent Price. In 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played the Marquis de Sade. 1998 film version of Victor Hugos classic novel, directed by Billie Woodruff. ... Elizabeth is a 1998 movie about the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. ... Francis Walsingham by John de Critz (detail) Sir Francis Walsingham (c. ... Shakespeare in Love is an award-winning 1998 romantic comedy film. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 horror film. ... Quills is a 2000 period drama directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. ... Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (c. ...

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 sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and has reprised his role in the third title. 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. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie of adventure and romance set in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century. ... Hector Barbossa is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, being the primary antagonist in the first film of the series Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. ... Pirates of the Caribbean is a multi-billion dollar Walt Disney franchise encompassing a theme park ride, a series of films and spinoff novels as well as numerous video games and other publications. ... This article is about a theme park in Anaheim, California USA. For other Disney parks and attractions, see Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. ... The Magic Kingdom is a theme park within the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando. ... Audio-Animatronics or just animatronics is a form of robotics created by Disneys Imagineers for several shows and attractions at Disney theme parks, and subsequently expanded on and used by other companies. ...

Rush played actor Peter Sellers in 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. Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ... The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (DVD) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers was a 2004 film about the life of Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewiss book of the same name. ... An Emmy Award. ... Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Munich is a 2005 drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth which depicts the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen, and the Israeli governments secret retaliation assassinations. ... The Australian Film Institute Awards (often abbreviated to AFI Awards) is an annual awards ceremony administered by the Australian Film Institute, held in late November or early December. ... The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney. ...

Personal life

Rush lives in Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 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 developers and championing a National Trust of Australia (Victoria) poll for the Victorian Heritage Icons Awards. Burke Road, Camberwell (looking north from Camberwell Junction) Camberwell is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the local municipality of the City of Boroondara. ... Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Slogan or Nickname: Garden State, The Place to Be Motto(s): Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (resigning effective 30th July 2007) (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 37  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05... For other uses of the name Camberwell, see Camberwell (disambiguation). ... The National Trust of Australia is a community-based, non-government organisation, committed to promoting and conserving Australias indigenous, natural and historic heritage through its advocacy work and its custodianship of heritage places and objects. ...

Since 1988, Rush has been married to Jane Menelaus, with whom he has a daughter, Angelica (b. 1992) and a son, James (b. 1995). Jane Menelaus is an Australian actress. ...

Awards won

• 1996 - Best Actor in a Lead Role at the American Film Institute Awards, for his role in Shine
• 1997 - Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards, for his role in Shine
• 1997 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama at the Golden Globes, for his role in Shine
• 2003 - Global Achievement Award at the AFI Awards
• 2005 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television at the Golden Globes for his role in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• 2005 - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie at the Emmy Awards for his role in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

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Awards nominated

• 1998 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role at the AFI Awards, for his role in A Little Bit of Soul
• 1999 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Academy Awards, for his role in Shakespeare in Love
• 1999 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, for his role in Shakespeare in Love
• 2001 - Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards, for his role in Quills
• 2001 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama at the Golden Globes, for his role in Quills
• 2002 - Best Actor in a Leading Role at the AFI Awards, for his role in Swimming Upstream
• 2006 - Best Supporting Actor at the AFI Awards, for his role in Candy

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Filmography

• "Menotti" (1981) (TV Series)
• Starstruck (1982) as the Floor Manager
• Twelfth Night (1987) as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
• Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995) as Dave Rudd
• Call Me Sal (1996) as Wal
• Shine (1996) as David Helfgott (adult)
• "Mercury" (1996) TV Series as Bill Wyatt
• Children of the Revolution (1996) as Zachary Welch
• "Frontier" (1997) (mini TV Series) as Soldier Administrator David Collins
• Oscar and Lucinda (1997) (voice) as Narrator
• A Little Bit of Soul (1998) as Godfrey Usher
• Les Misérables (1998) as Inspector Javert
• Elizabeth (1998) as Sir Francis Walsingham
• Shakespeare in Love (1998) as Philip Henslowe
• Mystery Men (1999) as Casanova Frankenstein
• House on Haunted Hill (1999) as Stephen H. Price
• Quills (2000) as the Marquis de Sade
• The Magic Pudding (2000) (voice) as Bunyip Bluegum
• The Tailor of Panama (2001) as Harold 'Harry' Pendel
• Lantana (2001) as John Knox
• Hoodwinked (2001) as Detective 1
• Frida (2002) as Leon Trotsky
• The Banger Sisters (2002) as Harry Plummer
• Swimming Upstream (2003) as Harold Fingleton
• Ned Kelly (2003) as Francis Hare
• Finding Nemo (2003) voice of Nigel
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) as Captain Barbossa
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003) as Donovan Donaly
• Harvie Krumpet (2003) (voice) as Narrator
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) (TV) as Peter Sellers
• Candy (2006) as Casper
• Munich (2005) Mossad case officer Ephraim
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) as Captain Barbossa
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) as Captain Barbossa
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) (post-production) as Sir Francis Walsingham

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Footnote

1. ^ Geoffrey Rush biography

• Hoodwinked(2004) not (2001)

References

• Geoffrey Rush - Stage acting credits

• "The Winter's Tale" - The Playhouse, Adelaide (1987)
• "Troilus and Cressida" - Old Museum Building, Brisbane (1989)
• "The Marriage of Figaro" - (the play) - Playhouse at QPAC, Brisbane (1989)

• "The Importance of Being Earnest" — (information and photos) —

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• "Merry Wives of Windsor" — [15] , [16]

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• Geoffrey Rush at the Internet Movie Database
• Geoffrey Rush — Alumni at the University of Queensland
• Geoffrey Rush — Australian Film Commission