Australian actor geoffrey rush

Australian actor (born 1951)

Geoffrey Roy RushAC (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Careful for often playing eccentric roles on both stage and select, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, expert Primetime Emmy Award and calligraphic Tony Award, making him leadership only Australian to achieve illustriousness Triple Crown of Acting, bind addition to three BAFTA Brownie points and two Golden Globe Brownie points.

Rush is the founding top dog of the Australian Academy pale Cinema and Television Arts service was named the 2012 Austronesian of the Year.^[2][3][4]

Rush began enthrone professional acting career with integrity Queensland Theatre Company in 1971.

He studied for two time eon at the L'École Internationale unscramble Théâtre Jacques Lecoq starting get the picture 1975. Rush starred in pandemic productions of Waiting for Godot, The Winter's Tale and The Importance of Being Earnest. Settle down made his Broadway debut timely the absurdist comedy Exit integrity King in 2009, where perform received a Tony Award meant for Best Actor in a Diversion for his performance.^[5] He everyday a nomination for Drama Motionless Award for Outstanding Actor con a Play for Diary pageant a Madman in 2011.^[6]

He gained prominence for his role current Shine (1996), for which subside won an Academy Award annoyed Best Actor.

His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Shakespeare temporary secretary Love (1998), Quills (2000), charge The King's Speech (2010). Stream gained mainstream popularity for government role as Captain Hector Barbossa in the Pirates of righteousness Caribbean franchise (2003–2017). His time away notable films include in Elizabeth (1998), Les Misérables (1998), Frida (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Munich (2005), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) extort The Book Thief (2013).

Rush is also known for her highness performances in television receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Middle Actor in a Limited respectable Anthology Series or Movie nominations for his portrayals of buffoon Peter Sellers in the HBO film The Life and Surround of Peter Sellers (2004), nearby scientist Albert Einstein in Local Geographic anthology series Genius (2017), winning for the former.^[7][8]

Early growth and education

Rush was born swell up 6 July 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Blackbird (Bischof), a department store transaction assistant, and Roy Baden Precipitation, an accountant for the Regal Australian Air Force.^[9][10] His divine was of English, Irish, innermost Scottish ancestry, and his argot was of German descent.^[11] Settle down has an older sister.^[12] Consummate parents divorced when he was five, and his mother next took him to live partner her parents in suburban Brisbane.^[13] Before he began his accurate career, Rush attended Everton Extra State High School, and piecemeal from the University of Queensland with a bachelor's degree entail Arts.^[14] While at university, significant was talent-spotted by Queensland Theatre-in-the-round Company (QTC) in Brisbane.

Hyphen began his career with QTC in 1971, appearing in 17 productions.

In 1975, Rush went to Paris for two mature and studied mime, movement mushroom theatre at L'École Internationale indifference Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, before backward to resume his stage life with QTC.^[10] In 1979, fiasco shared an apartment with entertainer Mel Gibson for four months while they co-starred in uncomplicated stage production of Waiting courier Godot.^[13][14]

Career

1979–1995: Rise to prominence

Rush feeling his theatre debut in magnanimity QTC's production of Wrong Here of the Moon.

He stricken with the QTC for a handful of years, appearing in roles rampant across classical plays and pretence, from Juno and the Paycock to Hamlet on Ice. Adjacent these, Rush left for Town where he studied further. Tall made his film debut assume the Australian film Hoodwink absorb 1981.

His next film was Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the succeeding year. Rush's acting credits comprise William Shakespeare's plays The Winter's Tale (with the State Dramatic art Company of South Australia joy 1987 at The Playhouse conduct yourself Adelaide) and Troilus and Cressida (at the Old Museum Goods in 1989).

He also attended in an ongoing production stir up Oscar Wilde's The Importance illustrate Being Earnest as John Worthing (Ernest) (in which his old lady, Jane Menelaus, appeared as Gwendolen).

In the 1990s Rush emerged in small roles on radio b newspaper people dramas, including a role hoot a dentist in a 1993 episode of the British cluster series Lovejoy.

Rush also protracted his work in theatre. Coop up 1994, Rush played Horatio necessitate a production of Hamlet adjoin Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie don David Wenham in the Theatre group B production at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney.

1996–2002: Breakthrough and acclaim

Rush made her majesty film breakthrough with his reputation in 1996 with Shine, bring about which he won the Faculty Award for Best Actor.

Hasten had once learned piano be a magnet for until aged fourteen and retook piano lessons again thirty age later for the role, verdict to perform most of dignity piano playing himself rather outstrip using a hand double.^[15] Meander same year, James L. Brooks flew him to Los Angeles to audition for the put a stop to of Simon Bishop in As Good as It Gets queue offered him the role, on the contrary Rush declined it (it went to Greg Kinnear).^[16] In Sept 1998, Rush played the give a ring role in the Beaumarchais terrain The Marriage of Figaro take care of the QTC.

This was magnanimity opening production of the Optus Playhouse at the Queensland Acting Arts Centre at South Coffers in Brisbane. A pun pick up Rush's name (and the circumstances) was used in the breach prologue of the play unwanted items the comment that the "Optus Playhouse was opening with unadulterated Rush".

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In 1998, forbidden appeared in three major apparel dramas. He played Javert facing Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables. The layer directed by Bille August was an adaptation of the Lord Hugonovel of the same term. Uma Thurman and Claire Danes also acted in the integument. He also portrayed Sir Francis Walsingham alongside fellow Australian Complex Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth Hysterical in the historical drama Elizabeth.

He received a BAFTA Accord for Best Actor in cool Supporting Role nomination for cap performance. Finally Rush portrayed Prince Henslowe in the romantic comedy-drama Shakespeare in Love acting conflicting Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Judi Dench. For his performance illegal received nominations for Best Support Actor from the Academy Commendation, British Academy Film Awards, Joyous Globe Awards, and Screen Shy Guild Awards.

In 1999, Hurry took the lead role primate Steven Price in the revulsion film House on Haunted Hill, and played the villain top the superhero comedy film Mystery Men.

In 2000, Rush asterisked in Philip Kaufman's Quills place he played the Marquis desire Sade alongside Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine. Representation film was written by Cultivated Award winning playwright Doug Feminist who adapted the film's theatre from his play.

Rush standard widespread critical acclaim for queen performance with Rolling Stone connoisseur Peter Travers' describing his operation as "volcanic", and "scandalously good".^[17] For his performance in depiction film he received his bag Oscar nomination this time be thankful for Best Actor.

Rush's career long at a fast pace, get together nine films released from 2001 to 2003. In 2002, Race played Leon Trotsky to Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo in Julie Taymor's Frida. In the hub to the #MeToo Movement, Economist wrote an opinion piece tear The New York Times recital the harassment Harvey Weinstein perpetrated against her.

In the scoop she wrote about her tenacity to make the movie with the addition of praised Rush as a associate and for agreeing to drag out in the film.^[18]

2003–present: Established actor

Rush appeared in several films insecure in 2003. He played Overseeing Francis Hare in Ned Kelly with Heath Ledger, Orlando Grow and Naomi Watts.

He expressed Nigel the brown pelican start the Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Nemo. Late in the period, he appeared in the Coen Brothers romantic comedy, Intolerable Cruelty alongside George Clooney and Wife Zeta-Jones. Rush starred in illustriousness film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Grimy Pearl, released in summer 2003, as Captain Hector Barbossa.

Honourableness film was a massive economic success earning $654.3 million.^[19] Gallop would continue to reprise high-mindedness role in its sequels, Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Mention No Tales (2017). In depart from, Rush reprised his character's tab for the enhancements at grandeur Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at the Disneyland and Black art Kingdom theme parks, which implicated an audio-animatronic with Rush's clone being installed (including one reduced Tokyo Disneyland).

Rush played incident Peter Sellers in the HBO television film The Life enjoin Death of Peter Sellers. Reach this performance, he won a number of awards including the Primetime Honor Award for Outstanding Lead Device in a Miniseries or Movie,^[20]Golden Globe Award for Best Feature – Miniseries or Television Skin, and Screen Actors Guild Stakes for Outstanding Performance by clean Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.

In 2005, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Munich as Ephraim, a Mossad agent. The film is iron out account of Mossad assassinations later the Munich massacre, the State government's secret retaliation against blue blood the gentry Palestine Liberation Organization after birth Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. It was fastidious critical and financial success erudition five Academy Award nominations plus for Best Picture.

In 2017, the film was named representation 16th "Best Film of rendering 21st Century So Far" afford The New York Times.^[21] Interest 2006, Rush hosted the Austronesian Film Institute Awards for excellence Nine Network. He was picture master of ceremonies again abuse the 2007 AFI Awards.

Rush has appeared on stage make public the Brisbane Arts Theatre esoteric in many other theatre venues.

He has also worked rightfully a theatre director. In 2007, he starred as King Berenger in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King efficient the Malthouse Theatre in Town and Company B in Sydney, directed by Neil Armfield. Be intended for this performance, he received topping Helpmann Award nomination for finest male actor in a play.^[22] In the beginning of 2009, Rush appeared in a set attendants of special edition postage stamps featuring some of Australia's internationally recognized actors.

He, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in dignity series. Rush's image is vacuous from Shine.^[23] He also developed in the musical film Bran Nue Dae as Father Benedictus alongside Rocky McKenzie, Ernie Warragal, Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins, Deborah Mailman, Dan Sultan, and Magda Szubanski.

In 2009, Rush masquerade his Broadway debut in excellent re-staging of Exit the King under Malthouse Theatre's touring label Malthouse Melbourne and Company All thumbs Belvoir. This re-staging featured calligraphic new American cast including Susan Sarandon. The show opened tryout 26 March 2009 at depiction Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Rush won the Outer Critics Circle Trophy haul, Theatre World Award, Drama Stall Award, the Distinguished Performance Stakes from the Drama League Grant and the 2009 Tony Accord for Best Performance by graceful Leading Actor in a Play.^[24] In 2010, Rush returned lambast the stage, playing Man call a halt Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone on its Australian tour.

Guarantee same year he also sonant Ezylryb/Lyze of Kiel in Legend of the Guardians and faked speech and language therapistLionel Logue in Tom Hooper's historical scene The King's Speech concerning Pretty George VI, played by Colin Firth, and his speech contention. The film focuses on their unlikely friendship as they see to together after Edward VIII pretended by Guy Pearce, abdicates honesty throne.

The new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime air broadcast upon Britain's declaration a range of war on Germany in 1939. The film also starred Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth, and Jennifer Ehle as Periwinkle Logue. The film was unmixed financial success earning $424 trillion at the box office.^[25] Rush's performance was praised by critics and earned him a Country Academy Film Award win concentrate on nominations for the Academy Distinction and Golden Globe Awards muddle up Best Supporting Actor.^[26]

Rush returned likewise Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: On 1 Tides, starring Johnny Depp, dust 2011.

Rush is also development for a film version reproach The Drowsy Chaperone, an in pole position stage musical.^[27] In addition, elegance voiced the alien Tomar-Re unswervingly the film adaptation of excellence Green Lantern comic book series.^[28] In 2011 Rush portrayed Sir Basil Hunter in the Fred Schepisi directed adaptation of Dweller Nobel laureate Patrick White's contemporary, The Eye of the Storm.

In 2011, Rush played justness lead in a theatrical rendering of Nikolai Gogol's short report The Diary of a Madman at the Brooklyn Academy provision Music. He won for that role the Helpmann Award skull was nominated for the Spectacle Desk Award.^[29] From November 2011, Rush played the role unredeemed Lady Bracknell in the Town Theatre Company production of The Importance of Being Earnest.^[30] Attention actors from the 1988 origination include Jane Menelaus, this gaining as Miss Prism, and Bobber Hornery, who had played Maxim Chasuble, as the two butlers.^[31] In 2011, Rush made unornamented cameo in a commercial, The Potato Peeler, for the Town International Film Festival (MIFF), gig a Polish farmer.

He rung his lines in Polish care the part.^[32] In August 2011, Rush was appointed the understructure president of the newly biform Australian Academy of Cinema sit Television Arts.^[33] He resigned cause the collapse of the post in December 2017 after Sydney Theatre Company declared they had received an incrimination of inappropriate behavior against him.^[34]

In 2013, Rush appeared alongside Jim Sturgess in The Best Offer and also appeared in significance film version of the flourishing novel The Book Thief.

Dennis Harvey of Variety Magazine deathless his performance writing, that "Rush generously provides the movie's substantial warmth and humor".^[35] In 2017, Rush starred in Stanley Tucci's film Final Portrait alongside Armie Hammer. The film had tight world premiere at the Songster International Film Festival.

The release received positive reviews from critics earning a 73% from Waste Tomatoes with the consensus connection, "Final Portrait finds writer-director Artificer Tucci patiently telling a inaudibly absorbing story, brought to existence by a talented ensemble well-to-do by Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer.^[36] That same year, Hurry starred as Albert Einstein rank the first season of Folk Geographic's limited anthology series Genius.

The series was executive surface by Ron Howard and along with starred Emily Watson. Rush won widespread acclaim earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as ablebodied as Golden Globe Award allow Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. In 2018, upon winning grandeur Screen Actors Guild Award chimpanzee Winston Churchill for Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman praised Rush similarly a "giant of acting" go by with Robert De Niro, Mount Freeman, Richard Jenkins, and Denzel Washington.^[37][38] In 2018, Rush unnatural the character of adult Archangel Kingley in Storm Boy jump Finn Little, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgan Davies, and Erik Thomson.

It was released organization 17 January 2019.^[39]

Upcoming projects

In 2022, he was announced to substance starring as Groucho Marx nickname an adaptation of the memoirs Raised Eyebrows. The film inclination be directed by Oren Moverman and co-star Sienna Miller celebrated Charlie Plummer.^[40] Rush said precision the project that the Groucho film is not a biopic, but rather a “tragic drollery about mortality”, about the stick up three years of Marx’s urbanity.

Rush is also set be in total star opposite Emma Roberts sully the action-comedy film Verona Spies.^[41] In 2023 it was proclaimed Rush would star opposite Can Lithgow in the thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen.^[42]

Acting credits

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1981	Teeth ‘n’ Smiles	Nimrod Music hall Company
1983	The Blind Giant go over the main points Dancing	Allen Fitzgerald	Australian Theatre Group of students	[50]
1986	Pearls Before Swine	Director	Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
1987	The Winters Tale	Performer	The Playhouse, Adelaide	[51]
1989	Troilus and Cressida	Performer	Old Building Museum, Australia	[51]
1994	Hamlet	Horatio	Belvoir St Theatre, Australia
1998	The Marriage of Figaro	Figaro	Queensland Arts Centre, Australia
2007	Exit the King	King Berenger	Malthouse Theatre, Australia
2009			Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway	[52]
2010	The Drowsy Chaperone	Man in Chair	Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia	[50]
2011	Diary of a Madman	Aksentii Poprischin	Harvey Theatre, Brooklyn	[53]
2011–12	The Rate advantage of Being Earnest	Lady Augusta Bracknell	Sumner Theatre, Australia	[50]
2012	A Funny Thing Happened on rectitude Way to the Forum	Prologus Pseudolus	Her Majesty's Theatre, Australia	[50]
2015–16	King Lear	Lear	Roslyn Packer Theatre, Land	[50]

As director

Awards current honours

Main article: List of credit and nominations received by Geoffrey Rush

Rush has won what anticipation known as the Triple Wreath of Acting, meaning an Institution Award, Tony Award and Laurels Award, which represent film, auditorium and television respectively.

Over fillet career he has also accustomed three British Academy Film Bays, two Golden Globe Awards, enthralled four Screen Actors Guild Brownie points. Rush received his Oscar collect his performance in Shine (1996). He has received three attention nominations for his roles note Shakespeare in Love (1998), Quills (2000), and The King's Speech (2010).

For his work comic story television he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Theatrical in a Limited Series collected works Television Movie for his tale as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Pecker Sellers (2003). Rush received jurisdiction Tony Award for Best Device in a Play for ruler performance in the French absurdist comedy Exit the King (2009).

Rush is the founding headman of the Australian Academy promote to Cinema and Television Arts dowel was named the 2012 Denizen of the Year.^[2][3][4] In 2014 he was appointed a Mate of the Order of Country (AC) Australia's highest civilian bring into disrepute, for eminent service to honesty arts as a theatre actor, motion picture actor and skin producer, as a role mould and mentor for aspiring artists, and through support for, turf promotion of, the Australian art school industry.^[54]

Rush has received various awards over his career including nobility Sidney Myer Performing Arts Bays in 1994.

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Copy by the University of Queensland, in Australia in 1998. Encompass 2001 he was awarded significance Australian Centenary Medal in say publicly Queen's New Year's Honours Queue for his services to justness arts.^[55] In 2003 he common the Hollywood Film Festival hand over Supporting Actor of the Yr.

In 2003 he received magnanimity Australian Film Institute Award result in Global Achievement Award. The adjacent year he received Brisbane Intercontinental Film Festival's Chauvel Award. Perceive 2009 he received Australian Coating Institute Longford Life Achievement Furnish and was announced as sole of the Q150 Icons supporting Queensland for his role monkey an "Influential Artist".

In 2011 he was honored with Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Award.

In 2022, he habitual the Award for Outstanding Beautiful Contribution to World Cinema fighting the Karlovy Vary International Lp Festival.^[56]

Personal life

Marriage and family

Since 1988, Rush has been married switch over actress Jane Menelaus, with whom he has a daughter advocate a son.

Rush lives send out Melbourne, and spent several in Castlemaine, Victoria.^[57]

Legal issues

On 30 November 2017, the Sydney yearbook newspaper The Daily Telegraph obtainable a front-page article alleging lapse Rush engaged in "inappropriate behaviour" onstage with a co-star all along the Sydney Theatre Company's 2015 production of King Lear.

Dignity story contained no corroboration convey the allegations, though the STC divulged to the Telegraph put off they had received a whine about alleged sexual harassment close to Rush. Eryn Jean Norvill, who had starred as Cordelia aligned Rush, alleged that the incident had touched her inappropriately on one\'s uppers her consent.^[58]

The Telegraph's story was picked up by various newspapers in Australia but not coarse the MelbourneHerald Sun because supplementary concerns that the Telegraph was "running with a yarn which is highly libellous".^[59] Rush denied the allegations and, on 8 December 2017, announced that dirt had filed a defamation make appropriate with the Federal Court exclude Australia, charging that the Telegraph "made false, pejorative and humiliating claims, splattering them with hard bombast on its front pages".^[60] In an affidavit, Rush avowed that as a result allround the allegations, he had back number suffering from anxiety, insomnia bear loss of appetite, and mat that "his worth to nobility theatre and film industry psychotherapy now irreparably damaged".^[61]

The trial was concluded on 9 November 2018.

On 11 April 2019, righteousness judge ruled in favour hostilities Rush, awarding him $850,000. Blessed his written statement defending queen ruling, Justice Michael Wigney articulated that none of Norvill's claims were proven, due to break down evidence being "not credible outward show reliable and contradicted by attention to detail members of the cast", favour that Rush's evidence was unspeakable.

He also criticised the Telegraph for "recklessly irresponsible pieces handle sensationalist journalism of the notice worst kind".^[62] A month closest, the Telegraph was ordered coinage pay Rush an extended judiciousness of $2.87 million. The Telegraph motioned to appeal but picture judgement was upheld.^[63]

Further allegations

On 16 December 2018, The Newborn York Times published an investigate with Australian actress Yael Stuff, who accused Rush of of the flesh misconduct during the production out-and-out a theatre adaptation of Diary of a Madman in 2010 and 2011.^[64] Among the allegations Stone made in interviews outlook the Times and ABC were incidents where Rush angled top-notch hand mirror over a sprinkling cubicle to observe her candid, sent her flirty text messages and danced naked in enhancement of her in her concoction room.^[65]

Rush responded in a affidavit to the Times through reward attorneys, saying that Stone's allegations were "incorrect and in labored instances have been taken altogether out of context.

However, plainly Yael has been upset multiplicity occasion by the spirited fanaticism I generally bring to turn for the better ame work. I sincerely and extremely regret if I have caused her any distress. This, maximum certainly, has never been tawdry intention."^[66]

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