Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia on July 6th, 1951 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 73, Geoffrey Rush biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor.
Rush is one of 24 people to have been recognized for the Triple Crown of Acting: an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.
He has received one Academy Award (of four nominations), three British Academy Film Awards (of five nominations), two Golden Globe Awards (of six nominations), and four Screen Actors Guild Awards (of nine nominations).
Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, and has been named the Australian of the Year in 2012.
He is also the first actor to win the Academy Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for a single role in film for his role as piano prodigy David Helfgott in Shine (1996).
Early life
Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His father was of English, Irish, and Scottish descent, and his mother was of German descent. He has an older sister. When he was five years old, his parents divorced him and his mother later took him to live with her parents in suburban Brisbane. Rush attended Everton Park State High School and graduated from the University of Queensland with a bachelor's degree in Arts before beginning his acting career. He was talent-spotted by the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) in Brisbane while studying at university. Rush began his QTC work in 1971 and was involved in 17 productions.
Rush returned to Paris for two years and studied mime, movement, and theatre at L'Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq before resuming his stage work with QTC. When Mel Gibson and I co-starred in a stage production of Waiting for Godot in 1979, he shared an apartment for four months.
Personal life
Rush has been married to Jane Menelaus since 1988, with whom he has a daughter and a son. Rush lives in Melbourne and spent many years in Castlemaine, Victoria.
Career
Rush appeared in Wrong Side of the Moon, the QTC's production of Wrong Side of the Moon. He was with the QTC for four years, appearing in roles ranging from classical plays to pantomime, from Juno and the Paycock to Hamlet on Ice. Rush left for Paris where he continued his studies.
William Shakespeare's plays The Winter's Tale (with the State Theatre Company of South Australia in 1987) and Troilus and Cressida (at the Old Museum Building in 1989). As John Worthing (Ernest), he appeared in an ongoing production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolen) (in which his wife, Jane Menelaus, appeared as Gwendolen).
In 1981, Rush made his film debut in the Australian film Hoodwink. The following year, Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck was his next film.
In the 1990s, Rush appeared in small roles on television dramas, including a role as a dentist in a 1993 episode of British television show Lovejoy. Rush also did theatre work. In 1994, Rush appeared in a Hamlet performance with Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie, and David Wenham in the Company B production at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney.
Rush made his film debut in 1996 with Shine, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor. Rush did not learn the piano until age fourteen, but the job wasn't until he retired, that he took up piano lessons in order not to require a hand double. James L. Brooks came to Los Angeles to audition for the role of Simon Bishop in As Good as It Gets and offered him the opportunity, but Rush turned down the opportunity (it went to Greg Kinnear).
Rush appeared in the Beaumarchais version The Marriage of Figaro for the QTC in September 1998. The Optus Playhouse's inaugural performance at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane was this performance. In the play's first prologue, a pun on Rush's name (and circumstances) was used. The "Optus Playhouse was opening with a Rush" was quoted as "Optus Playhouse was referring to him.
He appeared in three major films: Les Misérables, Elizabeth, and Shakespeare in Love. For the last film, he was nominated for Best Support Actor by the Academy Award for his second year. In Les Miserables, Rush played Javert opposite Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean. Sir Francis Walsingham was portrayed by Rush in Elizabeth by fellow Australian Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I. For his role, he received a British Academy Film Award nomination. He played Philip Henslowe in Love in Shakespeare's Forklifting to an audience Academy Award, British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actor Guild Award nominations.
Rush appeared in the horror film House on Haunted Hill in 1999 and played the villain in the superhero comedy film Mystery Men.
Rush appeared in Philip Kaufman's Quills in 2000, where he appeared alongside Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, and Michael Caine. Doug Wright, a Tony Award-winning playwright who adapted the film's screenplay from his play, wrote the script. Rush received widespread acclaim for his role with Rolling Stone analyst Peter Travers' description of his work as "volcanic" and "scandalously good." He received his third Oscar nomination this year for his role in the film.
Rush's career soared, with nine films releasing from 2001 to 2003. In Julie Taymor's Frida, Rush starred Leon Trotsky to Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo. Hayek wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times describing the abuse she suffered against her as a result of the #MeToo movement. In the essay, she talked about her resolve to make the film and praises Rush for agreeing to act in it.
Rush appeared in several films released in 2003. Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, and Naomi Watts played Superintendent Francis Hare in Ned Kelly. In the Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, he portrayed Nigel the brown pelican. He appeared in the Coen Brothers romantic comedy Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones late in the year.
Rush appeared in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which was released in summer 2003 as Captain Hector Barbossa. The film was a huge financial success, grossing $654.3 million. Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's Conclusion (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). Rush will continue to reprise its roles in its sequels, Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's Conclusion (2007). Rush also reembed his character for the revisions at the Pirates of the Caribbean theme parks, which included an audio-animatronic with Rush's likeness being displayed (one at Tokyo Disneyland).
In the HBO television film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Rush played actor Peter Sellers. He received several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Film, the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Film, and the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film.
In 2005, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Munich as Ephraim, a Mossad agent. Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's clandestine retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organisation following the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, is the subject of the film. It was a critical and financial success, receiving five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The New York Times named the film as the 16th "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" in 2017.
Rush received the Australian Film Institute Awards for the Nine Network in 2006. At the 2007 AFI Awards, he was the master of ceremonies once more.
Rush has appeared on stage for the Brisbane Arts Theatre and in several other theatre venues. He has also worked as a theatre director. He appeared in Exit the King's production at Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King in 2005, directed by Neil Armfield. He was nominated for best male actor in a play by the Helpmann Award for this role.
Rush debuted in a series of special edition postage stamps starring some of Australia's internationally recognised celebrities in the beginning of 2009. Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman appear in the series twice. Rush's picture is taken from Shine. Father Benedictus appeared in the musical film Bran Nue Dae alongside Rocky McKenzie, Ernie Dingo, Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins, Dan Sultan, and Magda Szubanski.
Rush made his Broadway debut in a re-staging of Exit the King under the direction of Malthouse Theatre's touring moniker Malthouse Theatre and Company B Belvoir in 2009. Susan Sarandon was one of the original cast members of this revival. On March 26, 2009 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, the performance opened. Rush received the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Drama League Award, and the 2009 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Rush returned to the stage in 2010, playing Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone's Australian tour. Lionel Logue, a speech and language therapist in Tom Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech Concerning King George VI, played by Colin Firth, and his speech immunization took place the same year. The film about their unlikely friendship when they collaborate after Edward VIII, played by Guy Pearce, renounces the throne. On the first wartime radio broadcast regarding Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939, the new king relyes on Logue to assist him in his first wartime radio broadcast. Helena Bonham Carter appeared as Queen Elizabeth in the film, and Jennifer Ehle played Myrtle Logue. The film was a commercial success, grossing $424 million at the box office. Critics lauded Rush's performance, earning him a British Academy Film Award nomination and nomination for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Captain Hector Barbossa's Return as Captain Hector Barbossa. Johnny Depp appeared in Stranger Tides, a 2011 film starring Johnny Depp. Rush is also planning a film adaptation of The Drowsy Chaperone, an award-winning stage musical. In addition, he appeared as Tomar-Re in the Green Lantern comic book series's film adaptation.
Rush appeared in The Eye of the Storm, a Fred Schepisi-directed adaptation of Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White's book The Eye of the Storm.
Rush played the lead in a dramatic production of Nikolai Gogol's short story The Diary of a Madman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2011. He received the Helpmann Award for his work in this role, and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.
In the Melbourne Theatre Company's production The Importance of Being Earnest, Rush played Lady Bracknell from November to May 2011. Jane Menelaus, this time as Miss Prism, and Bob Hornery, who had appeared on Canon Chasuble, as the two butlers.
Rush appeared in The Potato Peeler, a Melbourne International Film Festival commercial, in 2011, portraying a Polish farmer. For the part, he spoke in Polish. Rush was elected foundation president of the newly formed Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts in August 2011. In December 2017, he resigned from office after Sydney Theatre Company revealed they had been charged with inappropriate conduct against him.
Rush appeared in The Best Offer alongside Jim Sturgess in 2013 and later appeared in the film version of the best-selling book The Book Thief. Dennis Harvey of Variety Magazine praised his writing work, saying that "Rush generously provides the film's primary warmth and humor."
Rush appeared in Stanley Tucci's film Final Portrait alongside Armie Hammer in 2017. At the Berlin International Film Festival, the film made its world premiere. Critical commentators earning 73% from Rotten Tomatoes were applauded for the film's consensus reading, "Final Portrait" finds writer-director Stanley Tucci patiently narrating a tale narrated by a strong cast led by Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer.
In the first season of National Geographic's limited anthology series Genius, Rush starred as Albert Einstein. Ron Howard directed the series, and Emily Watson appeared in it. Rush received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as well as Golden Globe Award and Screen Actor Guild Award nominations.
Gary Oldman, who received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Darkest Hour in 2018, praised Rush as a "giant of acting" alongside Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Richard Jenkins, and Denzel Washington.
Rush played adult Michael Kingley in Storm Boy alongside Finn Little, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgan Davies, and Erik Thomson. It was released on January 17, 2019. Following allegations of sexual assault, his acting career stalled for two years after that. In 2022, he was revealed to be appearing as Groucho Marx in a version of the memoir Raised Eyebrows, his first role since the scandal.