Geoffrey Rush
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
Finding Nemo
2003
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007
Frida
2002
Munich
2005
Ned Kelly
2003
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Shakespeare in Love
1998
The Tailor of Panama
2001
Les Misérables
1998
Candy
2006
Quills
2000
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Elizabeth
1998
Harvie Krumpet
2003
House on Haunted Hill
1999
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
Shine
1996
The Banger Sisters
2002
Lantana
2001
The Magic Pudding
2000
Mystery Men
1999
Children of the Revolution
1996
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995
Swimming Upstream
2003
Green Lantern
2011
Bran Nue Dae
2009
The Warrior's Way
2010
Hoodwink
1981
$9.99
2009
Raised Eyebrows
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The Eye of the Storm
2011
The Best Offer
2013
Gods of Egypt
2016
The Book Thief
2013
The King's Speech
2010
The Pixar Story
2007
Twelfth Night
1987
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Twisted
1997
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017
Verona Spies
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The Daughter
2015
Final Portrait
2017
Minions
2015
Unity
2015
Holding the Man
2015
Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
2015
A Little Bit of Soul
1998
Starstruck
1982
Storm Boy
2019
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
Whaledreamers
2006
The Nature of Lantana
2002
The Man Who Could Not Dream
2012
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
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The Man Inside Dame Edna
2008
Shearing the Love
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006
Pirates of the Caribbean | Disneyland Resort
2025
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Kath & Kim
2002
The View
1997
The Colbert Report
2005
Mercury
1996
The Oscars
1953
Lowdown
2010
Genius
2017
Chelsea
2016
Australian Encounters
2013
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Being Brendo
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Twisted Tales
1996