Geoffrey Rush

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Geoffrey Rush
AC
Rush in 2017
Born
Geoffrey Roy Rush

(1951-07-06) 6 July 1951 (age 72)
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Alma materUniversity of Queensland (BA)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • film producer
  • composer
Years active1971–present
Spouse
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(m. 1988)​
Children2
AwardsFull list
Geoffrey Rush's voice
from the BBC program Front Row, 1 May 2013[1]

Geoffrey Roy Rush

Tony Award, making him the only Australian to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, in addition to three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.[2][3][4]

Rush began his professional acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in 1971. He studied for two years at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq starting in 1975. Rush starred in international productions of Waiting for Godot, The Winter's Tale and The Importance of Being Earnest. He made his Broadway debut in the absurdist comedy Exit the King in 2009, where he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance.[5] He received a nomination for Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for Diary of a Madman in 2011.[6]

He gained prominence for his role 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 performances in television receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nominations for his portrayals of comedian Peter Sellers in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), and scientist Albert Einstein in National Geographic anthology series Genius (2017), winning for the former.[7][8]

Early life and education

Rush was born on 6 July 1951 in

Queensland Theatre Company
(QTC) in Brisbane. Rush began his career with QTC in 1971, appearing in 17 productions.

In 1975, Rush went to Paris for two years and studied

mime, movement and theatre at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, before returning to resume his stage career with QTC.[10] In 1979, he shared an apartment with actor Mel Gibson for four months while they co-starred in a stage production of Waiting for Godot.[13][14]

Career

1979–1995: Rise to prominence

Rush made his theatre debut in the QTC's production of Wrong Side of the Moon. He worked with the QTC for four years, appearing in roles ranging across classical plays and pantomime, from Juno and the Paycock to Hamlet on Ice. Following these, Rush left for Paris where he studied further. Rush made his film debut in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year. Rush's acting credits include William Shakespeare's plays The Winter's Tale (with the State Theatre Company of South Australia in 1987 at The Playhouse in Adelaide) and Troilus and Cressida (at the Old Museum Building in 1989). He also appeared in an ongoing production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest as John Worthing (Ernest) (in which his wife, Jane Menelaus, appeared as Gwendolen).

In the 1990s Rush appeared in small roles on television dramas, including a role as a dentist in a 1993 episode of the British television series

Belvoir St Theatre
in Sydney.

1996–2002: Breakthrough and acclaim

Sir Francis Walsingham in Elizabeth
(1998)

Rush made his film breakthrough with his performance in 1996 with

hand double.[15] That same year, James L. Brooks flew him to Los Angeles to audition for the part of Simon Bishop in As Good as It Gets and offered him the role, but Rush declined it (it went to Greg Kinnear).[16] In September 1998, Rush played the title role in the Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro for the QTC. This was the opening production of the Optus Playhouse at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank in Brisbane. A pun
on Rush's name (and the circumstances) was used in the opening prologue of the play with the comment that the "Optus Playhouse was opening with a Rush".

In 1998, he appeared in three major costume dramas. He played

Queen Elizabeth I in the historical drama Elizabeth. He received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination for his performance. Finally Rush portrayed Philip Henslowe in the romantic comedy-drama Shakespeare in Love acting opposite Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Judi Dench. For his performance he received nominations for Best Supporting Actor from the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 1999, Rush took the lead role as Steven Price in the horror film House on Haunted Hill, and played the villain in the superhero comedy film Mystery Men
.

In 2000, Rush starred in

#MeToo Movement, Hayek wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times detailing the harassment Harvey Weinstein perpetrated against her. In the article she wrote about her determination to make the movie and praised Rush as a collaborated and for agreeing to act in the film.[18]

2003–present: Established actor

Rush at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

Rush appeared in several films released in 2003. He played Superintendent Francis Hare in

Coen Brothers romantic comedy, Intolerable Cruelty alongside George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Rush starred in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, released in summer 2003, as Captain Hector Barbossa. The film was a massive financial success earning $654.3 million.[19] Rush would continue to 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 his character's voice for the enhancements at the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom theme parks, which involved an audio-animatronic with Rush's likeness being installed (including one at Tokyo Disneyland
).

Rush played actor

Academy Award nominations including for Best Picture. In 2017, the film was named the 16th "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" by The New York Times.[21] In 2006, Rush hosted the Australian Film Institute Awards for the Nine Network. He was the master of ceremonies
again at the 2007 AFI Awards.

Rush at the Sydney premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in 2011

Rush has appeared on stage for the

Helpmann Award nomination for best male actor in a play.[22] In the beginning of 2009, Rush appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps featuring some of Australia's internationally recognised actors. He, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series. Rush's image is taken from Shine.[23] He also appeared in the musical film Bran Nue Dae as Father Benedictus alongside Rocky McKenzie, Ernie Dingo, Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins, Deborah Mailman, Dan Sultan, and Magda Szubanski
.

In 2009, Rush made his Broadway debut in a re-staging of Exit the King under

British Academy Film Award win and nominations for the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor.[26]

Rush at TIFF in 2023

Rush returned as

Helpmann Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.[29] From November 2011, Rush played the role of Lady Bracknell in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of The Importance of Being Earnest.[30] Other actors from the 1988 production include Jane Menelaus, this time as Miss Prism, and Bob Hornery, who had played Canon Chasuble, as the two butlers.[31] In 2011, Rush made a cameo in a commercial, The Potato Peeler, for the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), playing a Polish farmer. He spoke his lines in Polish for the part.[32] In August 2011, Rush was appointed the foundation president of the newly formed Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts.[33] He resigned from the post in December 2017 after Sydney Theatre Company announced they had received an accusation of inappropriate behaviour against him.[34]

In 2013, Rush appeared alongside

Screen Actors Guild Award as Winston Churchill for Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman praised Rush as a "giant of acting" along with Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Richard Jenkins, and Denzel Washington.[37][38] In 2018, Rush played the character 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 the memoir Raised Eyebrows. The film will be directed by Oren Moverman and co-star Sienna Miller and Charlie Plummer.[40] Rush said of the project that the Marx film is not a biopic, but rather a “tragic comedy about mortality”, about the last three years of Marx’s life. Rush is also set to star opposite Emma Roberts in the action-comedy film Verona Spies.[41] In 2023 it was announced Rush would star alongside John Lithgow in the thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen.[42]

Acting credits

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1981 Hoodwink Detective 1
1982 Starstruck Floor Manager
1987 Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1995 Dad and Dave: On Our Selection Dave Rudd
1996 Shine David Helfgott (adult)
Children of the Revolution Zachary Welch
1997 Oscar and Lucinda Narrator Voice
1998 A Little Bit of Soul Godfrey Usher
Elizabeth Sir Francis Walsingham
Les Misérables Inspector Javert
Shakespeare in Love Philip Henslowe
1999 Mystery Men Casanova Frankenstein
House on Haunted Hill Stephen H. Price
2000 Quills Marquis de Sade
The Magic Pudding Bunyip Bluegum Voice; Animated Feature
2001 The Tailor of Panama Harold "Harry" Pendel
Lantana John Knox
2002 Frida Leon Trotsky
The Banger Sisters Harry Plummer
2003 Swimming Upstream Harold Fingleton
Ned Kelly Superintendent Francis Hare
Finding Nemo Nigel (the Pelican) Voice; Animated Feature
Harvie Krumpet Narrator Voice
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Captain Hector Barbossa
Intolerable Cruelty Donovan Donaly
2005 Munich Ephraim
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Captain Hector Barbossa Cameo (uncredited)
Candy Casper
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Captain Hector Barbossa
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Sir Francis Walsingham
2008 $9.99 Angel Voice
2009 Bran Nue Dae Father Benedictus
2010 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Ezylryb/Lyze of Kiel Voice; Animated Film
The King's Speech Lionel Logue
The Warrior's Way Ron
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Captain Hector Barbossa
Green Lantern Tomar-Re Voice
The Eye of the Storm Basil Hunter
2013 The Best Offer Virgil Oldman
The Book Thief Hans Hubermann
2014 Unity Narrator Documentary
2015 The Daughter Henry Neilson
Minions The Narrator Voice; Animated Film
Holding the Man Barry
2016 Gods of Egypt Ra
2017 Final Portrait Alberto Giacometti
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Captain Hector Barbossa
2019 Storm Boy Mike "Storm Boy" Kingley [43]
TBA Raised Eyebrows Groucho Marx [44]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1979–81 Consumer Capers Jim Boy TV series
1981 Menotti Fr. Peter Fuller 13 episodes
1987 Frontier David Collins Miniseries; 3 episodes
1996 Mercury Bill Wyatt 13 episodes
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Peter Sellers Television Movie, HBO [45]
Kath & Kim Geoff Episode: "Sitting on a Pile" [46]
2010 Lowdown Narrator/God Voice; 16 episodes
2015 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Episode: "Geoffrey Rush" [47]
2017
Genius
 		Albert Einstein Miniseries, National Geographic [48]

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 [49]
1986 Pearls Before Swine Director Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
1987
The Winters Tale
 		Performer The Playhouse, Adelaide [50]
1989 Troilus and Cressida Performer Old Building Museum, Australia [50]
1994 Hamlet Horatio
Belvoir St Theatre
, Australia
1998 The Marriage of Figaro Figaro Queensland Arts Centre, Australia
2007 Exit the King King Berenger Malthouse Theatre, Australia
2009 Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway [51]
2010 The Drowsy Chaperone Man in Chair Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia [49]
2011 Diary of a Madman Aksentii Poprischin Harvey Theatre, Brooklyn [52]
2011–12 The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Augusta Bracknell Sumner Theatre, Australia [49]
2012 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Prologus Pseudolus
Her Majesty's Theatre
, Australia 		[49]
2015–16 King Lear Lear Roslyn Packer Theatre, Australia [49]

As director

Year Title Role Venue
1986 Pearls Before Swine Director Belvoir St Theatre, Seymour Centre, Universal Theatre, Melbourne

Awards and honours

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

Rush has won what is known as the

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the French absurdist comedy Exit the King
(2009).

Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.[2][3][4] In 2014 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) Australia's highest civilian honour, for eminent service to the arts as a theatre performer, motion picture actor and film producer, as a role model and mentor for aspiring artists, and through support for, and promotion of, the Australian arts industry.[53]

Rush has received various honours over his career including the

Australian Centenary Medal in the Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to the arts.[54] In 2003 he received the Hollywood Film Festival for Supporting Actor of the Year. In 2003 he received the Australian Film Institute Award
for Global Achievement Award. The following year he received
Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artist". In 2011 he was honored with Santa Barbara International Film Festival
's Montecito Award.

In 2022, he received the Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[55]

Personal life

Marriage and family

Since 1988, Rush has been married to actress Jane Menelaus, with whom he has a daughter and a son. Rush lives in Melbourne, and spent several years in Castlemaine, Victoria.[56]

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 corroboration for the allegations, though the STC divulged to the Telegraph that they had received a complaint about alleged sexual harassment by Rush. Eryn Jean Norvill, who had starred as Cordelia alongside Rush, alleged that the actor had touched her inappropriately without her consent.[57]

The Telegraph's story was picked up by various newspapers in Australia but not by the

libellous".[58] Rush denied the allegations and, on 8 December 2017, announced that he had filed a defamation suit with the Federal Court of Australia, charging that the Telegraph "made false, pejorative and demeaning claims, splattering them with unrelenting bombast on its front pages".[59] In an affidavit, Rush stated that as a result of the allegations, he had been suffering from anxiety, insomnia and loss of appetite, and felt that "his worth to the theatre and film industry is now irreparably damaged".[60]

The trial was concluded on 9 November 2018. On 11 April 2019, the judge ruled in favour of Rush, awarding him $850,000. In his written statement defending his ruling, Justice Michael Wigney said that none of Norvill's claims were proven, due to her evidence being "not credible or reliable and contradicted by other members of the cast", and that Rush's evidence was overwhelming. He also criticised the Telegraph for "recklessly irresponsible pieces of

sensationalist journalism of the very worst kind".[61] A month later, the Telegraph was ordered to pay Rush an extended judgement of $2.87 million. The Telegraph motioned to appeal but the judgement was upheld.[62]

Further allegations

On 16 December 2018,

text messages and danced naked in front of her in her dressing room.[64]

Rush responded in a statement to the Times through his attorneys, saying that Stone's allegations were "incorrect and in some instances have been taken completely out of context. However, clearly Yael has been upset on occasion by the spirited enthusiasm I generally bring to my work. I sincerely and deeply regret if I have caused her any distress. This, most certainly, has never been my intention."[65]

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