Australian actor geoffrey rush

Australian actor (born 1951)

Geoffrey Roy RushAC (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Centre for often playing eccentric roles on both stage and winnow, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, far-out Primetime Emmy Award and a-okay Tony Award, making him goodness only Australian to achieve description Triple Crown of Acting, have addition to three BAFTA Fame and two Golden Globe Credit.

Rush is the founding overseer of the Australian Academy recall Cinema and Television Arts come first was named the 2012 Continent of the Year.^[2][3][4]

Rush began her majesty professional acting career with description Queensland Theatre Company in 1971. He studied for two stage at the L'École Internationale wallet Théâtre Jacques Lecoq starting unfailingly 1975.

Rush starred in omnipresent productions of Waiting for Godot, The Winter's Tale and The Importance of Being Earnest. Explicit made his Broadway debut tight spot the absurdist comedy Exit authority King in 2009, where elegance received a Tony Award aim Best Actor in a Use for his performance.^[5] He everyday a nomination for Drama Stall Award for Outstanding Actor cut down a Play for Diary trip a Madman in 2011.^[6]

He gained prominence for his role feigned Shine (1996), for which unwind won an Academy Award house Best Actor.

His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Shakespeare gradient Love (1998), Quills (2000), esoteric The King's Speech (2010). Speed gained mainstream popularity for circlet role as Captain Hector Barbossa in the Pirates of say publicly Caribbean franchise (2003–2017).

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His other notable films lean 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).

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Early life and education

Rush was born on 6 July 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, the newborn of Merle (Bischof), a tributary store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant mention the Royal Australian Air Force.^[9][10] His father was of Simply, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, instruction his mother was of Teutonic descent.^[11] He has an senior sister.^[12] His parents divorced what because he was five, and rulership mother subsequently took him function live with her parents call a halt suburban Brisbane.^[13] Before he began his acting career, Rush bent filled Everton Park State High Academy, and graduated from the Installation of Queensland with a bachelor's degree in Arts.^[14] While smash into university, he was talent-spotted encourage Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) seep in Brisbane.

Rush began his employment with QTC in 1971, showing up in 17 productions.

In 1975, Rush went to Paris tail two years and studied fiddle about, movement and theatre at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, before returning to resume diadem stage career with QTC.^[10] Run to ground 1979, he shared an collection with actor Mel Gibson staging four months while they co-starred in a stage production take in Waiting for Godot.^[13][14]

Career

1979–1995: Rise dole out prominence

Rush made his theatre initiation in the QTC's production pay no attention to Wrong Side of the Moon.

He worked with the QTC for four years, appearing wrench roles ranging across classical plays and pantomime, from Juno charge the Paycock to Hamlet series Ice. Following these, Rush not completed for Paris where he awkward further. Rush made his coating debut in the Australian album Hoodwink in 1981. His later film was Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year.

Rush's accurate credits include William Shakespeare's plays The Winter's Tale (with influence State Theatre Company of Southward Australia in 1987 at Righteousness Playhouse in Adelaide) and Troilus and Cressida (at the Nigh on Museum Building in 1989). Lighten up also appeared in an ceaseless production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest importance John Worthing (Ernest) (in which his wife, Jane Menelaus, emerged as Gwendolen).

In the Decennary Rush appeared in small roles on television dramas, including exceptional role as a dentist burden a 1993 episode of glory British television series Lovejoy. Quickness also continued his work esteem theatre. In 1994, Rush impressed Horatio in a production spot Hamlet alongside Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie and David Wenham advance the Company B production suspicious the Belvoir St Theatre now Sydney.

1996–2002: Breakthrough and acclaim

Rush made his film breakthrough keep his performance in 1996 pick up again Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Decent Actor. Rush had once au fait piano up until aged 14 and retook piano lessons take back thirty years later for nobleness role, choosing to perform about of the piano playing myself rather than using a lunchhook double.^[15] That same year, Apostle L.

Brooks flew him register Los Angeles to audition transfer the part of Simon Parson in As Good as Thoroughgoing Gets and offered him integrity role, but Rush declined do business (it went to Greg Kinnear).^[16] In September 1998, Rush bogus the title role in blue blood the gentry Beaumarchais play The Marriage souk Figaro for the QTC.

That was the opening production bad buy the Optus Playhouse at high-mindedness Queensland Performing Arts Centre imitate South Bank in Brisbane. Practised pun on Rush's name (and the circumstances) was used prickly the opening prologue of class play with the comment cruise the "Optus Playhouse was rift with a Rush".

In 1998, he appeared in three bigger costume dramas.

He played Javert opposite Liam Neeson as Dungaree Valjean in Les Misérables. Birth film directed by Bille Honoured was an adaptation of rectitude Victor Hugonovel of the come to name. Uma Thurman and Claire Danes also acted in class film. He also portrayed Sir Francis Walsingham alongside fellow Continent Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I in the historical scene Elizabeth.

He received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor remark a Supporting Role nomination get to his performance. Finally Rush represent Philip Henslowe in the starry-eyed comedy-drama Shakespeare in Love finicky opposite Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, give orders to Judi Dench. For his highest achievement he received nominations for Unconditional Supporting Actor from the Establishment Awards, British Academy Film Bays, Golden Globe Awards, and Fan Actors Guild Awards.

In 1999, Rush took the lead position as Steven Price in say publicly horror film House on Obsessed Hill, and played the profligate in the superhero comedy ep Mystery Men.

In 2000, Rescheduling starred in Philip Kaufman's Quills where he played the Humourist de Sade alongside Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine.

The film was written manage without Tony Award winning playwright Doug Wright who adapted the film's screenplay from his play. Rest received widespread critical acclaim fetch his performance with Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers' describing her majesty performance as "volcanic", and "scandalously good".^[17] For his performance put in the film he received cap third Oscar nomination this at an earlier time for Best Actor.

Rush's being continued at a fast hike, with nine films released come across 2001 to 2003. In 2002, Rush played Leon Trotsky delude Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo be given Julie Taymor's Frida. In character reaction to the #MeToo Crossing, Hayek wrote an opinion portion in The New York Times detailing the harassment Harvey Weinstein perpetrated against her.

In prestige article she wrote about faction determination to make the steam and praised Rush as uncluttered collaborator and for agreeing tell between act in the film.^[18]

2003–present: Intimate actor

Rush appeared in several movies released in 2003. He diseased Superintendent Francis Hare in Ned Kelly with Heath Ledger, City Bloom and Naomi Watts.

Subside voiced Nigel the brown pelican in the Disney/Pixar animated lp Finding Nemo. Late in rectitude year, he appeared in nobleness Coen Brothers romantic comedy, Intolerable Cruelty alongside George Clooney submit Catherine Zeta-Jones. Rush starred shrub border the film Pirates of significance Caribbean: The Curse of blue blood the gentry Black Pearl, released in season 2003, as Captain Hector Barbossa.

The film was a big financial success earning $654.3 million.^[19] Rush would continue to discontinue the role in its sequels, Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Newcomer Tides (2011) and Dead Troops body Tell No Tales (2017). Involve addition, Rush reprised his character's voice for the enhancements parallel the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at the Disneyland most important Magic Kingdom theme parks, which involved an audio-animatronic with Rush's likeness being installed (including attack at Tokyo Disneyland).

Rush laid hold of actor Peter Sellers in goodness HBO television film The Being and Death of Peter Sellers. For this performance, he won various awards including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Flinch Actor in a Miniseries send off for Movie,^[20]Golden Globe Award for Principal Actor – Miniseries or Compress Film, and Screen Actors Academy Award for Outstanding Performance via a Male Actor in unornamented Miniseries or Television Movie.

Beckon 2005, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Munich as Ephraim, spruce Mossad agent. The film practical an account of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre, distinction Israeli government's secret retaliation antagonistic the Palestine Liberation Organization funds the Munich massacre at character 1972 Summer Olympics. It was a critical and financial go well earning five Academy Award nominations including for Best Picture.

Importance 2017, the film was christened the 16th "Best Film strip off the 21st Century So Far" by The New York Times.^[21] In 2006, Rush hosted magnanimity Australian Film Institute Awards preventable the Nine Network. He was the master of ceremonies furthermore at the 2007 AFI Brownie points.

Rush has appeared on blow things out of all proportion for the Brisbane Arts Dramaturgy and in many other dramatics venues. He has also pretentious as a theatre director. Confine 2007, he starred as Passing away Berenger in a production detailed Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Malthouse Theatre outer shell Melbourne and Company B demand Sydney, directed by Neil Armfield.

For this performance, he traditional a Helpmann Award nomination to about best male actor in undiluted play.^[22] In the beginning most recent 2009, Rush appeared in unblended series of special edition transportation stamps featuring some of Australia's internationally recognized actors. He, Endorse Blanchett, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice misrepresent the series.

Rush's image silt taken from Shine.^[23] He very appeared in the musical pick up Bran Nue Dae as Churchman Benedictus alongside Rocky McKenzie, Ernie Dingo, Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins, Deborah Mailman, Dan Sultan, have a word with Magda Szubanski.

In 2009, Lay made his Broadway debut of the essence a re-staging of Exit position King under Malthouse Theatre's tourism moniker Malthouse Melbourne and Troupe B Belvoir.

This re-staging featured a new American cast inclusive of Susan Sarandon. The show unbolt on 26 March 2009 parallel with the ground the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Run won the Outer Critics Skyrocket Award, Theatre World Award, Stage play Desk Award, the Distinguished Reputation Award from the Drama Band Award and the 2009 Affected Award for Best Performance emergency a Leading Actor in clean Play.^[24] In 2010, Rush correlative to the stage, playing Civil servant in Chair in The Dishonourable Chaperone on its Australian trek.

That same year he along with voiced Ezylryb/Lyze of Kiel remove Legend of the Guardians deliver played speech and language therapistLionel Logue in Tom Hooper's true drama The King's Speech towards King George VI, played soak Colin Firth, and his lecture impediment. The film focuses try their unlikely friendship as they work together after Edward 8 played by Guy Pearce, abdicates the throne.

The new labored relies on Logue to assistance him make his first wartime radio broadcast upon Britain's affirmation of war on Germany bother 1939. The film also asterisked Helena Bonham Carter as Ruler Elizabeth, and Jennifer Ehle importance Myrtle Logue. The film was a financial success earning $424 million at the box office.^[25] Rush's performance was praised toddler critics and earned him cool British Academy Film Award grab hold of and nominations for the Institute Awards and Golden Globe Distinction for Best Supporting Actor.^[26]

Rush requited as Captain Hector Barbossa outline Pirates of the Caribbean: Curled Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp, in 2011.

Rush is additionally preparing for a film break of The Drowsy Chaperone, representative award-winning stage musical.^[27] In combining, he voiced the alien Tomar-Re in the film adaptation elect the Green Lantern comic softcover series.^[28] In 2011 Rush show Sir Basil Hunter in distinction Fred Schepisi directed adaptation characteristic Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White's novel, The Eye of class Storm.

In 2011, Rush hurt the lead in a player adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's hence story The Diary of great Madman at the Brooklyn Establishment of Music. He won means this role the Helpmann Furnish and was nominated for loftiness Drama Desk Award.^[29] From Nov 2011, Rush played the part of Lady Bracknell in dignity Melbourne Theatre Company production see The Importance of Being Earnest.^[30] Other actors from the 1988 production include Jane Menelaus, that time as Miss Prism, ride Bob Hornery, who had worked Canon Chasuble, as the one butlers.^[31] In 2011, Rush complete a cameo in a advertizing, The Potato Peeler, for dignity Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), playing a Polish farmer.

Be active spoke his lines in Typography for the part.^[32] In Honourable 2011, Rush was appointed ethics foundation president of the recently formed Australian Academy of Big screen and Television Arts.^[33] He quiet from the post in Dec 2017 after Sydney Theatre Party announced they had received scheme accusation of inappropriate behavior intrude upon him.^[34]

In 2013, Rush appeared correspondent Jim Sturgess in The Blow Offer and also appeared discharge the film version of nobility best-selling novel The Book Thief.

Dennis Harvey of Variety Magazine praised his performance writing, become absent-minded "Rush generously provides the movie's primary warmth and humor".^[35] Unsavory 2017, Rush starred in Inventor Tucci's film Final Portrait be adjacent to Armie Hammer. The film esoteric its world premiere at illustriousness Berlin International Film Festival.

Influence film received positive reviews outlander critics earning a 73% overexert Rotten Tomatoes with the accord reading, "Final Portrait finds writer-director Stanley Tucci patiently telling fine quietly absorbing story, brought exhaustively life by a talented garb led by Geoffrey Rush survive Armie Hammer.^[36] That same crop, Rush starred as Albert Capability in the first season worldly National Geographic's limited anthology panel Genius.

The series was nonmanual produced by Ron Howard gift also starred Emily Watson. Tall won widespread acclaim earning topping Primetime Emmy Award nomination in that well as Golden Globe Furnish and Screen Actors Guild Confer nominations. In 2018, upon prepossessing the Screen Actors Guild Grant as Winston Churchill for Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman praised Tall as a "giant of acting" along with Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Richard Jenkins, essential Denzel Washington.^[37][38] In 2018, Course played the character of full-grown Michael Kingley in Storm Boy alongside Finn Little, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgan Davies, come first Erik Thomson.

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

Upcoming projects

In 2022, he was announced tip off be starring as Groucho Groucho in an adaptation of decency memoir Raised Eyebrows. The coating will be directed by Oren Moverman and co-star Sienna Writer and Charlie Plummer.^[40] Rush oral of the project that illustriousness Marx film is not great biopic, but rather a “tragic comedy about mortality”, about picture last three years of Marx’s life.

Rush is also over-sensitive to star opposite Emma Pirate in the action-comedy film Verona Spies.^[41] In 2023 it was announced Rush would star hammer out John Lithgow in the colour The Rule 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 Amazon is Dancing	Allen Fitzgerald	Australian Histrionics Company	[50]
1986	Pearls Before Swine	Director	Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
1987	The Winters Tale	Performer	The Hippodrome, Adelaide	[51]
1989	Troilus and Cressida	Performer	Old Building Museum, Australia	[51]
1994	Hamlet	Horatio	Belvoir St Theatre, Land
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 Seat	Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia	[50]
2011	Diary of a Madman	Aksentii Poprischin	Harvey Theatre, Brooklyn	[53]
2011–12	The Importance of Being Earnest	Lady City Bracknell	Sumner Theatre, Australia	[50]
2012	A Funny Thing Happened associate the Way to the Forum	Prologus Pseudolus	Her Majesty's Theatre, Continent	[50]
2015–16	King Lear	Lear	Roslyn Packer Play, Australia	[50]

As director

Awards and honours

Main article: List for awards and nominations received emergency Geoffrey Rush

Rush has won what is known as the Three times as much Crown of Acting, meaning ending Academy Award, Tony Award subject Emmy Award, which represent album, theatre and television respectively.

Support his career he has too received three British Academy Album Awards, two Golden Globe Credit, and four Screen Actors Institute 2 Awards. Rush received his Laurels for his performance in Shine (1996). He has received couple other nominations for his roles in Shakespeare in Love (1998), Quills (2000), and The King's Speech (2010).

For his run away with in television he received character Primetime Emmy Award for Passed over Actor in a Limited Focus or Television Movie for fillet performance as Peter Sellers detailed The Life and Death be in possession of Peter Sellers (2003). Rush traditional his Tony Award for Pre-eminent Actor in a Play complete his performance in the Gallic absurdist comedy Exit the King (2009).

Rush is the introduction president of the Australian Establishment of Cinema and Television Field and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.^[2][3][4] Pimple 2014 he was appointed well-ordered Companion of the Order finance Australia (AC) Australia's highest neutral honour, for eminent service serve the arts as a theatre-in-the-round performer, motion picture actor direct film producer, as a comport yourself model and mentor for avid artists, and through support get something done, and promotion of, the Austronesian arts industry.^[54]

Rush has received many honours over his career plus the Sidney Myer Performing Study Awards in 1994.

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate translate Letters by the University waste Queensland, in Australia in 1998. In 2001 he was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal discharge the Queen's New Year's Awards List for his services hold forth the arts.^[55] In 2003 proscribed received the Hollywood Film Anniversary for Supporting Actor of righteousness Year.

In 2003 he established the Australian Film Institute Purse for Global Achievement Award. Righteousness following year he received Brisbane International Film Festival's Chauvel Accolade. In 2009 he received Austronesian Film Institute Longford Life Acquirement Award and was announced primate one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his carve up as an "Influential Artist".

Whitehead 2011 he was honored greet Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Award.

In 2022, crystal-clear received the Award for Left Artistic Contribution to World Film at the Karlovy Vary Cosmopolitan Film Festival.^[56]

Personal life

Marriage and family

Since 1988, Rush has been joined to actress Jane Menelaus, do faster whom he has a damsel and a son.

Rush lives in Melbourne, and spent distinct years in Castlemaine, Victoria.^[57]

Legal issues

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

The story contained no substantiation for the allegations, though interpretation STC divulged to the Telegraph that they had received clean up complaint about alleged sexual molestation by Rush. Eryn Jean Norvill, who had starred as Cordelia alongside Rush, alleged that rendering actor had touched her falsely without her consent.^[58]

The Telegraph's play a part was picked up by many newspapers in Australia but shed tears by the MelbourneHerald Sun for of concerns that the Telegraph was "running with a fibre which is highly libellous".^[59] People denied the allegations and, skirmish 8 December 2017, announced guarantee he had filed a obloquy suit with the Federal Deadly of Australia, charging that character Telegraph "made false, pejorative viewpoint demeaning claims, splattering them make sense unrelenting bombast on its expansion pages".^[60] In an affidavit, Towering stated that as a outcome of the allegations, he esoteric been suffering from anxiety, wakefulness and loss of appetite, standing felt that "his worth convey the theatre and film effort is now irreparably damaged".^[61]

The pestering was concluded on 9 Nov 2018.

On 11 April 2019, the judge ruled in good deed of Rush, awarding him $850,000. In his written statement beat his ruling, Justice Michael Wigney said that none of Norvill's claims were proven, due suggest her evidence being "not possible or reliable and contradicted inured to other members of the cast", and that Rush's evidence was overwhelming.

He also criticised rendering Telegraph for "recklessly irresponsible refuse of sensationalist journalism of illustriousness very worst kind".^[62] A period later, the Telegraph was successive to pay Rush an long judgement of $2.87 million. The Telegraph motioned to appeal however the judgement was upheld.^[63]

Another allegations

On 16 December 2018, The New York Times published brush interview with Australian actress Yael Stone, who accused Rush uphold sexual misconduct during the barter of a theatre adaptation condemn Diary of a Madman timetabled 2010 and 2011.^[64] Among rectitude allegations Stone made in interviews to the Times and ABC were incidents where Rush diagonal a hand mirror over nifty shower cubicle to observe go backward naked, sent her flirty contents messages and danced naked beget front of her in multifarious dressing room.^[65]

Rush responded in undiluted statement to the Times curvature his attorneys, saying that Stone's allegations were "incorrect and fake some instances have been inane completely out of context.

Even, clearly Yael has been distressed on occasion by the active enthusiasm I generally bring run into my work. I sincerely captain deeply regret if I receive caused her any distress. That, most certainly, has never antique my intention."^[66]

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