Geoffrey Rush

Also Credited As:

Geoffrey Roy Rush
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Biography

Arguably his country's top stage actor, he had struggled for years to achieve recognition, but post-"Shine," Rush would remain both prolific and highly regarded as a film presence. Rush chewed the scenery with relish in the Academy Award-winning "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, and brought the depraved Marquis de Sade to life with unsettling voracity in "Quills" (2000). He played brilliantly off of a cast-against-type …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer

Born

Geoffrey Roy Rush on July 6, 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, AU

LATEST CREDITS

Swimming Upstream

Harold Fingleton

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

Quills

Marquis de Sade

The Eye of the Storm

Basil Hunter

Frontier: Stories From Australia's Forgotten War

Actor

A Little Bit of Soul

Godfrey Usher

The House on Haunted Hill

Steven Price

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Sir Francis Walsingham

Bran Nue Dae

Father Benedictus

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Voice of The Angel/Homeless Man

Shakespeare in Love

Philip Henslowe

Twisted

Harry Chisholm

The King's Speech

Lionel Logue

Candy

Casper

Les Miserables

Javert

The Warrior's Way

Ron

The Magic Pudding

of Bunyip Bluegum--The Koala

The Tailor of Panama

Harry Pendel

Lantana

John Knox

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirate Captain Barbossa/Captain Blackheart

The Magician's Wife

Henri Lambert

Elizabeth

Sir Francis Walsingham

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Barbossa

Shine

David Helfgott as an Adult

The Banger Sisters

Harry