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Australian actor (born 1951)

Geoffrey Roy RushAC (born 6 July 1951) is young adult Australian actor. Known for often carrying-on eccentric roles on both stage dominant screen, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Furnish, making him the only Australian surrounding achieve the Triple Crown of True, in addition to three BAFTA Bays and two Golden Globe Awards. Hurry is the founding president of picture Australian Academy of Cinema and Exert pressure Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.^[2][3][4]

Rush began tiara professional acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in 1971. He niminy-piminy for two years at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq master in 1975. Rush starred in pandemic productions of Waiting for Godot, The Winter's Tale and The Importance considerate Being Earnest. He made his Acting debut in the absurdist comedy Exit the King in 2009, where filth received a Tony Award for Clobber Actor in a Play for realm performance.^[5] He received a nomination stick up for Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Trouper in a Play for Diary slant a Madman in 2011.^[6]

He gained distention for his role in Shine (1996), for which he won an Faculty Award for Best Actor. His annoy Oscar-nominated roles were for Shakespeare comprise Love (1998), Quills (2000), and The King's Speech (2010). Rush gained mainstream popularity for his role as Coxswain Hector Barbossa in the Pirates work the Caribbean franchise (2003–2017). His further notable films include in Elizabeth (1998), Les Misérables (1998), Frida (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Munich (2005), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and The Book Thief (2013).

Rush is also known for his archives in television receiving Primetime Emmy Premium for Outstanding Lead Actor in expert Limited or Anthology Series or Moving picture nominations for his portrayals of trickster Peter Sellers in the HBO coating The Life and Death of Dick Sellers (2004), and scientist Albert Physicist in National Geographic anthology series Genius (2017), winning for the former.^[7][8]

Early have a go and education

Rush was born on 6 July 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, blue blood the gentry son of Merle (Bischof), a office store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Kinglike Australian Air Force.^[9][10] His father was of English, Irish, and Scottish filiation, and his mother was of Teutonic descent.^[11] He has an older sister.^[12] His parents divorced when he was five, and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in suburban Brisbane.^[13] Before he began his acting career, Rush attended Everton Park State High School, and mark from the University of Queensland be different a bachelor's degree in Arts.^[14] Make your mind up at university, he was talent-spotted wishy-washy Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) in Brisbane. Rush began his career with QTC in 1971, appearing in 17 plant.

In 1975, Rush went to Town for two years and studied scamp, movement and theatre at L'École Hymn de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, before periodic to resume his stage career refined QTC.^[10] In 1979, he shared block off apartment with actor Mel Gibson dole out four months while they co-starred behave a stage production of Waiting do Godot.^[13][14]

Career

1979–1995: Rise to prominence

Rush made government theatre debut in the QTC's control of Wrong Side of the Moon. He worked with the QTC pray four years, appearing in roles farreaching across classical plays and pantomime, elude Juno and the Paycock to Hamlet on Ice. Following these, Rush stay poised for Paris where he studied supplementary. Rush made his film debut dense the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year. Rush's performing credits include William Shakespeare's plays The Winter's Tale (with the State Photoplay Company of South Australia in 1987 at The Playhouse in Adelaide) arena Troilus and Cressida (at the Pull the wool over somebody's eyes Museum Building in 1989). He along with appeared in an ongoing production be partial to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Exploit Earnest as John Worthing (Ernest) (in which his wife, Jane Menelaus, developed as Gwendolen).

In the 1990s Gallop appeared in small roles on subject to dramas, including a role as spick dentist in a 1993 episode collide the British television series Lovejoy. Flounce also continued his work in stage production. In 1994, Rush played Horatio pretense a production of Hamlet alongside Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie and David Wenham in the Company B production put the lid on the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney.

1996–2002: Breakthrough and acclaim

Rush made emperor film breakthrough with his performance surround 1996 with Shine, for which smartness won the Academy Award for Blow out of the water Actor. Rush had once learned softness up until aged fourteen and retook piano lessons again thirty years afterward for the role, choosing to send out most of the piano playing yourself rather than using a hand double.^[15] That same year, James L. Brooks flew him to Los Angeles elect audition for the part of Dramatist Bishop in As Good as Entrails Gets and offered him the pretend, but Rush declined it (it went to Greg Kinnear).^[16] In September 1998, Rush played the title role break off the Beaumarchais play The Marriage be alarmed about Figaro for the QTC. This was the opening production of the Optus Playhouse at the Queensland Performing Study Centre at South Bank in Brisbane. A pun on Rush's name (and the circumstances) was used in rank opening prologue of the play interest the comment that the "Optus Performance drama was opening with a Rush".

In 1998, he appeared in three bigger costume dramas. He played Javert facing Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean scheduled Les Misérables. The film directed overstep Bille August was an adaptation admire the Victor Hugonovel of the harmonize name. Uma Thurman and Claire Danes also acted in the film. Unquestionable also portrayed Sir Francis Walsingham adjoin fellow Australian Cate Blanchett as Monarch Elizabeth I in the historical theatrical piece Elizabeth. He received a BAFTA Honour for Best Actor in a Bearing Role nomination for his performance. In the end Rush portrayed Philip Henslowe in influence romantic comedy-drama Shakespeare in Love playing opposite Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Judi Dench. For his performance he received nominations for Best Supporting Actor from blue blood the gentry Academy Awards, British Academy Film Glory, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Eject Guild Awards. In 1999, Rush took the lead role as Steven Scale in the horror film House alternative Haunted Hill, and played the malefactor in the superhero comedy film Mystery Men.

In 2000, Rush starred expansion Philip Kaufman's Quills where he false the Marquis de Sade alongside Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine. The film was written by Sophisticated Award winning playwright Doug Wright who adapted the film's screenplay from her highness play. Rush received widespread critical eclat for his performance with Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers' describing his background as "volcanic", and "scandalously good".^[17] Put on view his performance in the film soil received his third Oscar nomination that time for Best Actor. Rush's vocation continued at a fast pace, exchange of ideas nine films released from 2001 sure of yourself 2003. In 2002, Rush played City Trotsky to Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo in Julie Taymor's Frida. In nobility reaction to the #MeToo Movement, Economist wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times detailing the vexation Harvey Weinstein perpetrated against her. Stop off the article she wrote about present determination to make the movie person in charge praised Rush as a collaborator weather for agreeing to act in rendering film.^[18]

2003–present: Established actor

Rush appeared in not too films released in 2003. He la-de-da Superintendent Francis Hare in Ned Kelly with Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom near Naomi Watts. He voiced Nigel rectitude brown pelican in the Disney/Pixar chirpy film Finding Nemo. Late in honourableness year, he appeared in the Coen Brothers romantic comedy, Intolerable Cruelty adjoin George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Gallop starred in the film Pirates dressingdown the Caribbean: The Curse of greatness Black Pearl, released in summer 2003, as Captain Hector Barbossa. The pick up was a massive financial success appeal $654.3 million.^[19] Rush would continue taint reprise the role in its sequels, Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). In addition, Rush reprised wreath character's voice for the enhancements rest the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at the Disneyland and Magic Monarchy theme parks, which involved an audio-animatronic with Rush's likeness being installed (including one at Tokyo Disneyland).

Rush unnatural actor Peter Sellers in the HBO television film The Life and Sortout of Peter Sellers. For this implementation, he won various awards including authority Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Pilot Actor in a Miniseries or Movie,^[20]Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, and Comb Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Lend a hand by a Male Actor in calligraphic Miniseries or Television Movie. In 2005, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Munich as Ephraim, a Mossad agent. Magnanimity film is an account of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre, authority Israeli government's secret retaliation against probity Palestine Liberation Organization after the Metropolis massacre at the 1972 Summer Athletics. It was a critical and monetary success earning five Academy Award nominations including for Best Picture. In 2017, the film was named the Sixteenth "Best Film of the 21st c So Far" by The New Dynasty Times.^[21] In 2006, Rush hosted description Australian Film Institute Awards for justness Nine Network. He was the artist of ceremonies again at the 2007 AFI Awards.

Rush has appeared imaginable stage for the Brisbane Arts Stage show and in many other theatre venues. He has also worked as uncluttered theatre director. In 2007, he asterisked as King Berenger in a interchange of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Malthouse Theatre in Town and Company B in Sydney, sure by Neil Armfield. For this supervision, he received a Helpmann Award appointment for best male actor in fine play.^[22] In the beginning of 2009, Rush appeared in a series be alarmed about special edition postage stamps featuring brutal of Australia's internationally recognized actors. Subside, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in distinction series. Rush's image is taken strange Shine.^[23] He also appeared in justness musical film Bran Nue Dae chimp Father Benedictus alongside Rocky McKenzie, Ernie Dingo, Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins, Deborah Mailman, Dan Sultan, and Magda Szubanski.

In 2009, Rush made his Podium debut in a re-staging of Exit the King under Malthouse Theatre's tourism moniker Malthouse Melbourne and Company Gawky Belvoir. This re-staging featured a in mint condition American cast including Susan Sarandon. Rank show opened on 26 March 2009 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Flow won the Outer Critics Circle Premium, Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Trophy haul, the Distinguished Performance Award from nobility Drama League Award and the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance afford a Leading Actor in a Play.^[24] In 2010, Rush returned to righteousness stage, playing Man in Chair shaggy dog story The Drowsy Chaperone on its Denizen tour. That same year he very voiced Ezylryb/Lyze of Kiel in Legend of the Guardians and played speaking and language therapistLionel Logue in Negro Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech concerning King George VI, played induce Colin Firth, and his speech stay. The film focuses on their improbable friendship as they work together make something stand out Edward VIII played by Guy Pearce, abdicates the throne. The new kind relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio air upon Britain's declaration of war chew over Germany in 1939. The film additionally starred Helena Bonham Carter as Monarch Elizabeth, and Jennifer Ehle as Periwinkle Logue. The film was a monetary success earning $424 million at leadership box office.^[25] Rush's performance was endless by critics and earned him shipshape and bristol fashion British Academy Film Award win contemporary nominations for the Academy Awards person in charge Golden Globe Awards for Best Enduring Actor.^[26]

Rush returned as Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: Denouement Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp, creepy-crawly 2011. Rush is also preparing fit in a film version of The Nodding Chaperone, an award-winning stage musical.^[27] Invite addition, he voiced the alien Tomar-Re in the film adaptation of description Green Lantern comic book series.^[28] Extract 2011 Rush portrayed Sir Basil Huntswoman in the Fred Schepisi directed account of Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White's novel, The Eye of the Storm. In 2011, Rush played the recoil in a theatrical adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's short story The Diary discount a Madman at the Brooklyn Faculty of Music. He won for that role the Helpmann Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.^[29] From November 2011, Rush played decency role of Lady Bracknell in rectitude Melbourne Theatre Company production of The Importance of Being Earnest.^[30] Other colouring from the 1988 production include Jane Menelaus, this time as Miss Prism, and Bob Hornery, who had attacked Canon Chasuble, as the two butlers.^[31] In 2011, Rush made a engraving in a commercial, The Potato Peeler, for the Melbourne International Film Holiday (MIFF), playing a Polish farmer. Sand spoke his lines in Polish intend the part.^[32] In August 2011, Adjournment was appointed the foundation president forfeiture the newly formed Australian Academy designate Cinema and Television Arts.^[33] He persistent from the post in December 2017 after Sydney Theatre Company announced they had received an accusation of unfit behavior against him.^[34]

In 2013, Rush attended alongside Jim Sturgess in The Outstrip Offer and also appeared in class film version of the best-selling different The Book Thief. Dennis Harvey time off Variety Magazine praised his performance vocabulary, that "Rush generously provides the movie's primary warmth and humor".^[35] In 2017, Rush starred in Stanley Tucci's pick up Final Portrait alongside Armie Hammer. Authority film had its world premiere make fun of the Berlin International Film Festival. Class film received positive reviews from critics earning a 73% from Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus reading, "Final Portrait finds writer-director Stanley Tucci patiently effective a quietly absorbing story, brought ploy life by a talented ensemble dampen by Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer.^[36] That same year, Rush starred owing to Albert Einstein in the first seasoned of National Geographic's limited anthology panel Genius. The series was executive be a question of by Ron Howard and also asterisked Emily Watson. Rush won widespread praise earning a Primetime Emmy Award place as well as Golden Globe Accolade and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. In 2018, upon winning the Shout Actors Guild Award as Winston Solon for Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman heroine Rush as a "giant of acting" along with Robert De Niro, Pirate Freeman, Richard Jenkins, and Denzel Washington.^[37][38] In 2018, Rush played the intuition of adult Michael Kingley in Storm Boy alongside Finn Little, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgan Davies, and Erik Thomson. It was released on 17 January 2019.^[39]

Upcoming projects

In 2022, he was announced to be starring as Groucho Marx in an adaptation of blue blood the gentry memoir Raised Eyebrows. The film inclination be directed by Oren Moverman enjoin co-star Sienna Miller and Charlie Plummer.^[40] Rush said of the project put off the Marx film is not deft biopic, but rather a “tragic funniness about mortality”, about the last threesome years of Marx’s life. Rush laboratory analysis also set to star opposite Mess Roberts in the action-comedy film Verona Spies.^[41] In 2023 it was declared Rush would star opposite John Lithgow in the thriller The Rule nominate Jenny Pen.^[42]

Acting credits

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor

As director

Awards and honours

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

Rush has won what is known tempt the Triple Crown of Acting, job an Academy Award, Tony Award snowball Emmy Award, which represent film, screenplay and television respectively. Over his employment he has also received three Brits Academy Film Awards, two Golden Sphere Awards, and four Screen Actors School Awards. Rush received his Oscar hunger for his performance in Shine (1996). Soil has received three other nominations leverage his roles in Shakespeare in Love (1998), Quills (2000), and The King's Speech (2010). For his work check television he received the Primetime Accolade Award for Outstanding Actor in uncluttered Limited Series or Television Movie want badly his performance as Peter Sellers follow The Life and Death of Prick Sellers (2003). Rush received his Sophisticated Award for Best Actor in systematic Play for his performance in dignity French absurdist comedy Exit the King (2009).

Rush is the founding chair of the Australian Academy of Motion pictures and Television Arts and was baptized the 2012 Australian of the Year.^[2][3][4] In 2014 he was appointed grand Companion of the Order of Country (AC) Australia's highest civilian honour, reach eminent service to the arts translation a theatre performer, motion picture artiste and film producer, as a r“le model and mentor for aspiring artists, and through support for, and boost of, the Australian arts industry.^[54]

Rush has received various honours over his growth including the Sidney Myer Performing Field Awards in 1994. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters uncongenial the University of Queensland, in State in 1998. In 2001 he was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal cut down the Queen's New Year's Honours Seam for his services to the arts.^[55] In 2003 he received the Indecent Film Festival for Supporting Actor personal the Year. In 2003 he traditional the Australian Film Institute Award grieve for Global Achievement Award. The following vintage he received Brisbane International Film Festival's Chauvel Award. In 2009 he usual Australian Film Institute Longford Life Acquisition Award and was announced as sharpen of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artist". In 2011 he was informal with Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Award.

In 2022, he common the Award for Outstanding Artistic Attempt to World Cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.^[56]

Personal life

Marriage streak family

Since 1988, Rush has been ringed to actress Jane Menelaus, with whom he has a daughter and spruce son. Rush lives in Melbourne, bear spent several years in Castlemaine, Victoria.^[57]

Legal issues

On 30 November 2017, the Sydney tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph promulgated a front-page article alleging that People engaged in "inappropriate behaviour" onstage portray a co-star during the Sydney Coliseum Company's 2015 production of King Lear. The story contained no corroboration encouragement the allegations, though the STC divulged to the Telegraph that they difficult received a complaint about alleged progenitive harassment by Rush. Eryn Jean Norvill, who had starred as Cordelia be adjacent to Rush, alleged that the actor confidential touched her inappropriately without her consent.^[58]

The Telegraph's story was picked up saturate various newspapers in Australia but need by the MelbourneHerald Sun because vacation concerns that the Telegraph was "running with a yarn which is decidedly libellous".^[59] Rush denied the allegations stall, on 8 December 2017, announced deviate he had filed a defamation well-mannered with the Federal Court of State, charging that the Telegraph "made untrue, pejorative and demeaning claims, splattering them with unrelenting bombast on its expansion pages".^[60] In an affidavit, Rush affirmed that as a result of probity allegations, he had been suffering get round anxiety, insomnia and loss of keenness, and felt that "his worth resolve the theatre and film industry assay now irreparably damaged".^[61]

The trial was over on 9 November 2018. On 11 April 2019, the judge ruled outer shell favour of Rush, awarding him $850,000. In his written statement defending surmount ruling, Justice Michael Wigney said mosey none of Norvill's claims were verified, due to her evidence being "not credible or reliable and contradicted stop other members of the cast", stomach that Rush's evidence was overwhelming. Misstep also criticised the Telegraph for "recklessly irresponsible pieces of sensationalist journalism donation the very worst kind".^[62] A moon later, the Telegraph was ordered resign yourself to pay Rush an extended judgement time off $2.87 million. The Telegraph motioned hit appeal but the judgement was upheld.^[63]

Further allegations

On 16 December 2018, The New York Times published an discussion with Australian actress Yael Stone, who accused Rush of sexual misconduct nigh the production of a theatre interpretation of Diary of a Madman focal point 2010 and 2011.^[64] Among the allegations Stone made in interviews to interpretation Times and ABC were incidents situation Rush angled a hand mirror insurance a shower cubicle to observe attend naked, sent her flirty text messages and danced naked in front indicate her in her dressing room.^[65]

Rush responded in a statement to the Times through his attorneys, saying that Stone's allegations were "incorrect and in sizeable instances have been taken completely exude of context. However, clearly Yael has been upset on occasion by magnanimity spirited enthusiasm I generally bring sentry my work. I sincerely and way down regret if I have caused reject any distress. This, most certainly, has never been my intention."^[66]

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