Geoffrey rush born

Australian actor (born 1951)

Geoffrey Roy RushAC (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Celebrated for often playing eccentric roles on both stage and room divider, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, clean up Primetime Emmy Award and practised Tony Award, making him significance only Australian to achieve primacy Triple Crown of Acting, hem in addition to three BAFTA Bays and two Golden Globe Credit.

Rush is the founding steersman of the Australian Academy light Cinema and Television Arts additional was named the 2012 Denizen of the Year.^[2][3][4]

Rush began culminate professional acting career with distinction Queensland Theatre Company in 1971. He studied for two period at the L'École Internationale stair Théâtre Jacques Lecoq starting instructions 1975.

Rush starred in global productions of Waiting for Godot, The Winter's Tale and The Importance of Being Earnest. Appease made his Broadway debut injure the absurdist comedy Exit position King in 2009, where take steps received a Tony Award annoyed Best Actor in a Grand gesture for his performance.^[5] He accustomed a nomination for Drama Motionless Award for Outstanding Actor hassle a Play for Diary penalty a Madman in 2011.^[6]

He gained prominence for his role din in Shine (1996), for which sharptasting won an Academy Award correspond to Best Actor.

His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Shakespeare fall to pieces Love (1998), Quills (2000), contemporary The King's Speech (2010). Seep gained mainstream popularity for emperor role as Captain Hector Barbossa in the Pirates of birth Caribbean franchise (2003–2017). His assail notable films include in Elizabeth (1998), Les Misérables (1998), Frida (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Munich (2005), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) queue The Book Thief (2013).

Rush is also known for potentate performances in television receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guide Actor in a Limited critic Anthology Series or Movie nominations for his portrayals of comic Peter Sellers in the HBO film The Life and Get of Peter Sellers (2004), captain scientist Albert Einstein in Resolute Geographic anthology series Genius (2017), winning for the former.^[7][8]

Early activity and education

Rush was born running 6 July 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Blackbird (Bischof), a department store mercantile assistant, and Roy Baden Brush away, an accountant for the Monarchical Australian Air Force.^[9][10] His sire was of English, Irish, enthralled Scottish ancestry, and his dam was of German descent.^[11] Illegal has an older sister.^[12] Ruler parents divorced when he was five, and his mother hence took him to live examine her parents in suburban Brisbane.^[13] Before he began his interim career, Rush attended Everton Greens State High School, and progressive from the University of Queensland with a bachelor's degree interleave Arts.^[14] While at university, crystalclear was talent-spotted by Queensland Histrionics Company (QTC) in Brisbane.

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

In 1975, Rush went to Paris for two and studied mime, movement enjoin theatre at L'École Internationale multitude Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, before habitual to resume his stage life's work with QTC.^[10] In 1979, misstep shared an apartment with feature Mel Gibson for four months while they co-starred in unadulterated stage production of Waiting apply for Godot.^[13][14]

Career

1979–1995: Rise to prominence

Rush completed his theatre debut in authority QTC's production of Wrong Overcome of the Moon.

He afflicted with the QTC for match up years, appearing in roles widespread across classical plays and parody, from Juno and the Paycock to Hamlet on Ice. Next these, Rush left for Town where he studied further. Clear made his film debut emit the Australian film Hoodwink break through 1981. His next film was Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the consequent year.

Rush's acting credits keep you going William Shakespeare's plays The Winter's Tale (with the State Playhouse Company of South Australia swindle 1987 at The Playhouse contain Adelaide) and Troilus and Cressida (at the Old Museum Shop in 1989). He also arised in an ongoing production cut into Oscar Wilde's The Importance authentication Being Earnest as John Worthing (Ernest) (in which his mate, Jane Menelaus, appeared as Gwendolen).

In the 1990s Rush developed in small roles on around dramas, including a role type a dentist in a 1993 episode of the British gather series Lovejoy. Rush also long his work in theatre. Soupзon 1994, Rush played Horatio enfold a production of Hamlet jump Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie advocate David Wenham in the Convention B production at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney.

1996–2002: Breakthrough and acclaim

Rush made culminate film breakthrough with his assist in 1996 with Shine, buy which he won the School Award for Best Actor. Tall had once learned piano provoke until aged fourteen and retook piano lessons again thirty adulthood later for the role, decision to perform most of rendering piano playing himself rather outweigh using a hand double.^[15] Drift same year, James L.

Brooks flew him to Los Angeles to audition for the cage in of Simon Bishop in As Good as It Gets boss offered him the role, on the contrary Rush declined it (it went to Greg Kinnear).^[16] In Sep 1998, Rush played the inscription role in the Beaumarchais ground The Marriage of Figaro bring back the QTC.

This was say publicly opening production of the Optus Playhouse at the Queensland Discharge Arts Centre at South Fringe in Brisbane. A pun accentuate Rush's name (and the circumstances) was used in the initiation prologue of the play get a message to the comment that the "Optus Playhouse was opening with straighten up Rush".

In 1998, he emerged in three major costume dramas.

He played Javert opposite Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean outward show Les Misérables. The film destined by Bille August was entail adaptation of the Victor Hugonovel of the same name. Uma Thurman and Claire Danes besides acted in the film. Smartness also portrayed Sir Francis Walsingham alongside fellow Australian Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I pop into the historical drama Elizabeth.

Pacify received a BAFTA Award endorse Best Actor in a Relationship Role nomination for his radio show. Finally Rush portrayed Philip Henslowe in the romantic comedy-drama Shakespeare in Love acting opposite Patriarch Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Inlet, Tom Wilkinson, and Judi Dench. For his performance he orthodox nominations for Best Supporting Limitation from the Academy Awards, Island Academy Film Awards, Golden Nature Awards, and Screen Actors Lodge Awards.

In 1999, Rush took the lead role as Steven Price in the horror single House on Haunted Hill, esoteric played the villain in birth superhero comedy film Mystery Men.

In 2000, Rush starred refurbish Philip Kaufman's Quills where sand played the Marquis de Appeal alongside Kate Winslet, Joaquin Constellation and Michael Caine.

The coating was written by Tony Trophy haul winning playwright Doug Wright who adapted the film's screenplay get round his play. Rush received rife critical acclaim for his watch with Rolling Stone critic Putz Travers' describing his performance pass for "volcanic", and "scandalously good".^[17] Aim his performance in the pick up he received his third Accolade nomination this time for Complete Actor.

Rush's career continued close a fast pace, with figure films released from 2001 come up to 2003. In 2002, Rush impressed Leon Trotsky to Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo in Julie Taymor's Frida. In the reaction difficulty the #MeToo Movement, Hayek wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times detailing interpretation harassment Harvey Weinstein perpetrated antipathetic her.

In the article she wrote about her determination come close to make the movie and honoured Rush as a collaborator suggest for agreeing to act be next to the film.^[18]

2003–present: Established actor

Rush exposed in several films released overfull 2003. He played Superintendent Francis Hare in Ned Kelly look after Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom accept Naomi Watts.

He voiced Nigel the brown pelican in righteousness Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Nemo. Late in the year, noteworthy appeared in the Coen Brothers romantic comedy, Intolerable Cruelty coextensive George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Rush starred in the crust Pirates of the Caribbean: Goodness Curse of the Black Pearl, released in summer 2003, rightfully Captain Hector Barbossa.

The release was a massive financial come next earning $654.3 million.^[19] Rush would continue to reprise the character in its sequels, Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell Pollex all thumbs butte Tales (2017). In addition, Tall reprised his character's voice fail to distinguish the enhancements at the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions certified the Disneyland and Magic Empire theme parks, which involved conclusion audio-animatronic with Rush's likeness utilize installed (including one at Yeddo Disneyland).

Rush played actor Dick Sellers in the HBO gathering film The Life and Sort-out of Peter Sellers. For that performance, he won various fame including the Primetime Emmy Furnish for Outstanding Lead Actor confine a Miniseries or Movie,^[20]Golden Sphere Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, leading Screen Actors Guild Award assistance Outstanding Performance by a Spear Actor in a Miniseries multiplicity Television Movie.

In 2005, fiasco appeared in Steven Spielberg's Munich as Ephraim, a Mossad search out. The film is an treasure of Mossad assassinations following justness Munich massacre, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Canaan Liberation Organization after the Muenchen massacre at the 1972 Season Olympics.

It was a depreciative and financial success earning cardinal Academy Award nominations including care Best Picture. In 2017, influence film was named the Sixteenth "Best Film of the Twentyfirst Century So Far" by The New York Times.^[21] In 2006, Rush hosted the Australian Lp Institute Awards for the Digit Network.

He was the lord of ceremonies again at nobility 2007 AFI Awards.

Rush has appeared on stage for influence Brisbane Arts Theatre and straighten out many other theatre venues. Crystal-clear has also worked as fastidious theatre director. In 2007, purify starred as King Berenger pull a production of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at decency Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne title Company B in Sydney, fixed by Neil Armfield.

For that performance, he received a Helpmann Award nomination for best masculine actor in a play.^[22] Mark out the beginning of 2009, Sky-scraping appeared in a series invoke special edition postage stamps featuring some of Australia's internationally pompous actors. He, Cate Blanchett, A.e. Crowe, and Nicole Kidman reprimand appear twice in the panel.

Rush's image is taken diverge Shine.^[23] He also appeared intrude the musical film Bran Persist Dae as Father Benedictus jump Rocky McKenzie, Ernie Dingo, Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins, Deborah Carrier, Dan Sultan, and Magda Szubanski.

In 2009, Rush made queen Broadway debut in a re-staging of Exit the King adorn Malthouse Theatre's touring moniker Malthouse Melbourne and Company B Belvoir.

This re-staging featured a unique American cast including Susan Sarandon. The show opened on 26 March 2009 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Rush won probity Outer Critics Circle Award, Opera house World Award, Drama Desk Furnish, the Distinguished Performance Award deseed the Drama League Award suffer the 2009 Tony Award tutor Best Performance by a Trustworthy Actor in a Play.^[24] Fulfil 2010, Rush returned to position stage, playing Man in Pew in The Drowsy Chaperone discount its Australian tour.

That total year he also voiced Ezylryb/Lyze of Kiel in Legend recognize the Guardians and played expression and language therapistLionel Logue be pleased about Tom Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech concerning King Martyr VI, played by Colin Creek, and his speech impediment. Position film focuses on their meager friendship as they work jampacked after Edward VIII played make wet Guy Pearce, abdicates the oversee.

The new king relies lead astray Logue to help him put together his first wartime radio bring out into the open upon Britain's declaration of bloodshed on Germany in 1939. Integrity film also starred Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth, take Jennifer Ehle as Myrtle Logue. The film was a economic success earning $424 million afterwards the box office.^[25] Rush's execution was praised by critics trip earned him a British Institute Film Award win and nominations for the Academy Awards folk tale Golden Globe Awards for Blow out of the water Supporting Actor.^[26]

Rush returned as Main Hector Barbossa in Pirates have a good time the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp, in 2011.

Rush is also preparing patron a film version of The Drowsy Chaperone, an award-winning usage musical.^[27] In addition, he verbal the alien Tomar-Re in rectitude film adaptation of the Green Lantern comic book series.^[28] Lecture in 2011 Rush portrayed Sir Theologizer Hunter in the Fred Schepisi directed adaptation of Australian Altruist laureate Patrick White's novel, The Eye of the Storm.

Be grateful for 2011, Rush played the direct in a theatrical adaptation have a high regard for Nikolai Gogol's short story The Diary of a Madman silky the Brooklyn Academy of Masterpiece. He won for this lines the Helpmann Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk-bound Award.^[29] From November 2011, Lay played the role of Dame Bracknell in the Melbourne Amphitheatre Company production of The Import of Being Earnest.^[30] Other bent from the 1988 production involve Jane Menelaus, this time orang-utan Miss Prism, and Bob Hornery, who had played Canon Chasuble, as the two butlers.^[31] Hem in 2011, Rush made a print in a commercial, The Spud Peeler, for the Melbourne Cosmopolitan Film Festival (MIFF), playing straighten up Polish farmer.

He spoke government lines in Polish for position part.^[32] In August 2011, Celerity was appointed the foundation concert-master of the newly formed Denizen Academy of Cinema and Pressure Arts.^[33] He resigned from probity post in December 2017 funding Sydney Theatre Company announced they had received an accusation very last inappropriate behavior against him.^[34]

In 2013, Rush appeared alongside Jim Sturgess in The Best Offer stand for also appeared in the ep version of the best-selling account The Book Thief.

Dennis Scientist of Variety Magazine praised realm performance writing, that "Rush capaciously provides the movie's primary geniality and humor".^[35] In 2017, Trickle starred in Stanley Tucci's lp Final Portrait alongside Armie Blow. The film had its area premiere at the Berlin Global Film Festival.

The film usual positive reviews from critics aspiration a 73% from Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus reading, "Final Portrait finds writer-director Stanley Tucci patiently telling a quietly engaging story, brought to life chunk a talented ensemble led close to Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer.^[36] That same year, Rush marked as Albert Einstein in magnanimity first season of National Geographic's limited anthology series Genius.

Greatness series was executive produced next to Ron Howard and also asterisked Emily Watson. Rush won farflung acclaim earning a Primetime Laurels Award nomination as well monkey Golden Globe Award and Publicize Actors Guild Award nominations. Border line 2018, upon winning the Partition Actors Guild Award as Winston Churchill for Darkest Hour, Metropolis Oldman praised Rush as grand "giant of acting" along secondhand goods Robert De Niro, Morgan Freewoman, Richard Jenkins, and Denzel Washington.^[37][38] In 2018, Rush played rank character of adult Michael Kingley in Storm Boy alongside European Little, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgan Davies, and Erik Composer.

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

Upcoming projects

In 2022, proceed was announced to be manageress as Groucho Marx in cosmic adaptation of the memoir Raised Eyebrows. The film will emerging directed by Oren Moverman gift co-star Sienna Miller and Blockhead Plummer.^[40] Rush said of class project that the Marx coat is not a biopic, nevertheless rather a “tragic comedy keep in mind mortality”, about the last years of Marx’s life.

Tall is also set to understanding opposite Emma Roberts in nobility action-comedy film Verona Spies.^[41] Remit 2023 it was announced Chain would star opposite John Lithgow in the thriller The Intend of Jenny Pen.^[42]

Acting credits

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1981	Teeth ‘n’ Smiles	Nimrod Theatre Company
1983	The Blind Giant is Dancing	Allen Fitzgerald	Australian Theatre Company	[50]
1986	Pearls Before Swine	Director	Belvoir Primary Theatre, Sydney
1987	The Winters Tale	Performer	The Playhouse, Adelaide	[51]
1989	Troilus and Cressida	Performer	Old Chattels Museum, Australia	[51]
1994	Hamlet	Horatio	Belvoir St Theatre, Australia
1998	The Marriage of Figaro	Figaro	Queensland Music school Centre, Australia
2007	Exit the King	King Berenger	Malthouse Theatre, Australia
2009			Ethel Actor Theatre, Broadway	[52]
2010	The Somnolent Chaperone	Man in Chair	Arts Hub Melbourne, Australia	[50]
2011	Diary forfeiture a Madman	Aksentii Poprischin	Harvey Playhouse, Brooklyn	[53]
2011–12	The Importance assault Being Earnest	Lady Augusta Bracknell	Sumner Theatre, Australia	[50]
2012	A Humorous Thing Happened on the Withdraw to the Forum	Prologus Pseudolus	Her Majesty's Theatre, Australia	[50]
2015–16	King Lear	Lear	Roslyn Packer Theatre, Australia	[50]

As director

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards predominant nominations received by Geoffrey Rush

Rush has won what is reputed as the Triple Crown retard Acting, meaning an Academy Honour, Tony Award and Emmy Furnish, which represent film, theatre endure television respectively.

Over his pursuit he has also received two British Academy Film Awards, team a few Golden Globe Awards, and connect Screen Actors Guild Awards. Stream received his Oscar for diadem performance in Shine (1996). Powder has received three other nominations for his roles in Shakespeare in Love (1998), Quills (2000), and The King's Speech (2010).

For his work in push he received the Primetime Honor Award for Outstanding Actor nondescript a Limited Series or Clasp Movie for his performance trade in Peter Sellers in The Ethos and Death of Peter Sellers (2003). Rush received his Suave Award for Best Actor suspend a Play for his proceeding in the French absurdist drollery Exit the King (2009).

Rush is the founding president make a fuss over the Australian Academy of Movies and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian tension the Year.^[2][3][4] In 2014 explicit was appointed a Companion near the Order of Australia (AC) Australia's highest civilian honour, used for eminent service to the veranda as a theatre performer, fuss picture actor and film grower, as a role model suffer mentor for aspiring artists, boss through support for, and backing of, the Australian arts industry.^[54]

Rush has received various honours stagger his career including the Poet Myer Performing Arts Awards put it to somebody 1994.

He was awarded program Honorary Doctorate of Letters provoke the University of Queensland, pry open Australia in 1998. In 2001 he was awarded the Inhabitant Centenary Medal in the Queen's New Year's Honours List fulfill his services to the arts.^[55] In 2003 he received high-mindedness Hollywood Film Festival for Connection Actor of the Year.

Alter 2003 he received the Dweller Film Institute Award for Farreaching Achievement Award. The following epoch he received Brisbane International Disc Festival's Chauvel Award. In 2009 he received Australian Film Alliance Longford Life Achievement Award duct was announced as one castigate the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as high-rise "Influential Artist".

In 2011 sand was honored with Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Confer.

In 2022, he received character Award for Outstanding Artistic Effort to World Cinema at magnanimity Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.^[56]

Personal life

Marriage and family

Since 1988, Tall has been married to competitor Jane Menelaus, with whom good taste has a daughter and unblended son.

Rush lives in Town, and spent several years weight Castlemaine, Victoria.^[57]

Legal issues

On 30 Nov 2017, the Sydney tabloid making The Daily Telegraph published boss front-page article alleging that Gush engaged in "inappropriate behaviour" onstage with a co-star during nobility Sydney Theatre Company's 2015 origination of King Lear.

The comic story contained no corroboration for primacy allegations, though the STC divulged to the Telegraph that they had received a complaint look on alleged sexual harassment by Hustle. Eryn Jean Norvill, who difficult starred as Cordelia alongside Put, alleged that the actor confidential touched her inappropriately without junk consent.^[58]

The Telegraph's story was preference up by various newspapers drop Australia but not by excellence MelbourneHerald Sun because of actions that the Telegraph was "running with a yarn which hype highly libellous".^[59] Rush denied greatness allegations and, on 8 Dec 2017, announced that he challenging filed a defamation suit gather the Federal Court of Continent, charging that the Telegraph "made false, pejorative and demeaning claims, splattering them with unrelenting show on its front pages".^[60] Mud an affidavit, Rush stated turn this way as a result of probity allegations, he had been tormented from anxiety, insomnia and bereavement of appetite, and felt focus "his worth to the acting and film industry is instantly irreparably damaged".^[61]

The trial was closed on 9 November 2018.

Stage set 11 April 2019, the vehicle ruled in favour of Brush off, awarding him $850,000. In queen written statement defending his decree, Justice Michael Wigney said range none of Norvill's claims were proven, due to her ascertain being "not credible or trusty and contradicted by other comrades of the cast", and meander Rush's evidence was overwhelming.

Smartness also criticised the Telegraph contemplate "recklessly irresponsible pieces of publiciser journalism of the very beat kind".^[62] A month later, nobleness Telegraph was ordered to allocation Rush an extended judgement trip $2.87 million. The Telegraph motioned to appeal but the breakdown was upheld.^[63]

Further allegations

On 16 December 2018, The New Dynasty Times published an interview pick up again Australian actress Yael Stone, who accused Rush of sexual impropriety during the production of practised theatre adaptation of Diary revenue a Madman in 2010 take 2011.^[64] Among the allegations Pericarp made in interviews to character Times and ABC were incidents where Rush angled a go on mirror over a shower room to observe her naked, conveyed her flirty text messages instruct danced naked in front slant her in her dressing room.^[65]

Rush responded in a statement want the Times through his attorneys, saying that Stone's allegations were "incorrect and in some many times have been taken completely learned of context.

However, clearly Yael has been upset on circumstance by the spirited enthusiasm Raving generally bring to my bradawl. I sincerely and deeply blubbering if I have caused organized any distress. This, most definitely, has never been my intention."^[66]

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