Geoffrey Rush
Biography
Geoffrey Roy Rush AC (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. He is known for his eccentric leading man roles on stage and screen. He is among 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting, having received an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award. He also received three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.
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Acting History
2025
The Rule of Jenny Pen as Stefan Mortensen
2019Storm Boy as Mike 'Storm Boy' Kingley
2017Final Portrait as Alberto Giacometti
2017Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Hector Barbossa
2017Genius as Albert Einstein
2016Chelsea as Self
2016Gods of Egypt as Ra
2015The Daughter as Henry
2015Holding the Man as Barry
2015Unity as Narrator (voice)
2015Minions as Narrator (voice)
2015Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose as Oak Tree
2013The Book Thief as Hans Hubermann
2013Australian Encounters as Himself - Narrator
2013The Best Offer as Virgil Oldman
2012The Man Who Could Not Dream as Narrator / Talking Bird
2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011The Eye of the Storm as Basil Hunter
2011Green Lantern as Tomar-Re (voice)
2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as Hector Barbossa
2010The Warrior's Way as Ron
2010The King's Speech as Lionel Logue
2010Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Ezylryb (voice)
2010Lowdown as Narrator (voice)
2009Bran Nue Dae as Father Benedictus
2009$9.99 as Angel (voice)
2008The Man Inside Dame Edna as Narrator (Australian version) (voice)
2007Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Sir Francis Walsingham
2007The Pixar Story as Nigel (voice) (archive footage)
2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Barbossa
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Hector Barbossa
2006Whaledreamers as Self
2006Candy as Casper
2005Munich as Ephraim
2005The Colbert Report
2004The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Peter Sellers
2004The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
2003An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Self
2003Harvie Krumpet as Narrator (voice)
2003Intolerable Cruelty as Donovan Donaly
2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Barbossa
2003Finding Nemo as Nigel (voice)
2003Ned Kelly as Superintendent Francis Hare
2003Swimming Upstream as Harold Fingleton
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002The Banger Sisters as Harry Plummer
2002Frida as Leon Trotsky
2002The Nature of Lantana as Self
2002Kath & Kim as Geoff
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
2001Lantana as John Knox
2001The Tailor of Panama as Harry Pendel
2000The Magic Pudding as Bunyip Bluegum (voice)
2000Quills as Marquis de Sade
1999House on Haunted Hill as Stephen Price
1999Mystery Men as Casanova Frankenstein
1998Shakespeare in Love as Philip Henslowe
1998Elizabeth as Sir Francis Walsingham
1998Les Misérables as Javert
1998A Little Bit of Soul as Godfrey Usher
1997Oscar and Lucinda as Narrator (voice)
1997The View as Self
1997Twisted as Harry Chisholm (segment 'Bonus Mileage')
1996Children of the Revolution as Zachary Welch
1996Shine as David as an adult
1996Mercury as Bill Wyatt
1995Dad and Dave: On Our Selection as Dave Rudd
1987Twelfth Night as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1982Starstruck as Floor Manager
1981Hoodwink
1953The Oscars as Self
—Raised Eyebrows as Groucho Marx
—Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
—Verona Spies
—Shearing the Love
—Being Brendo as Dr. Lance Pickering