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Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Roy Rush AC 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.


Aliases
  • Geoffrey Roy Rush
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Storm Boy

2019
as Mike 'Storm Boy' Kingley

Final Portrait

2017
as Alberto Giacometti

Genius (2017)

2017
as Albert Einstein

The Daughter

2015
as Henry

Unity

2015
as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Minions

2015
as Narrator (voice)

The Best Offer

2013
as Virgil Oldman

The Book Thief

2013
as Hans Hubermann

Green Lantern

2011
as Tomar-Re (voice)

The Eye of the Storm

2011
as Basil Hunter

Being Brendan

2010
as Dr Lance Pickering

The King's Speech

2010
as Lionel Logue

Bran Nue Dae

2009
as Father Benedictus

$9.99

2008
as Angel (voice)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

2007
as Sir Francis Walsingham

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2007
as Captain Hector Barbossa

Candy

2006
as Caspar

Munich

2005
as Ephraim

Intolerable Cruelty

2003
as Donovan Donaly

Swimming Upstream

2003
as Harold Fingleton

Finding Nemo

2003
as Nigel (voice)

Harvie Krumpet

2003
as Narrator (voice)

Ned Kelly

2003
as Superintendent Francis Hare

The Banger Sisters

2002
as Harry Plummer

Frida

2002
as Leon Trotsky

Lantana

2001
as John Knox

The Tailor of Panama

2001
as Harold " Harry " Pendel

Quills

2000
as The Marquis de Sade

The Magic Pudding

2000
as Bunyip Bluegum (voice)

Mystery Men

1999
as Casanova Frankenstein

House on Haunted Hill

1999
as Stephen H. Price

Les Misérables

1998
as Javert

Elizabeth

1998
as Sir Francis Walsingham

Shakespeare in Love

1998
as Philip Henslowe

Oscar and Lucinda

1997
as Narrator (voice)

Shine

1996
as David Helfgott

Children of the Revolution

1996
as Zachary Welch

Twelfth Night

1987
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Starstruck

1982
as Floor Manager

Hoodwink

1981
as Detective 1

Producer

Movie Storm Boy 2019
Movie The King's Speech 2010

Guest Star

Episode Genius (2017)
Einstein: Chapter Ten
2017
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jason Schwartzman, Nicole Richie, Geoffrey Rush, Depeche Mode
2017
Episode Genius (2017)
Einstein: Chapter Nine
2017
Episode Genius (2017)
Einstein: Chapter Eight
2017
Episode The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Episode 14
2017
Episode Genius (2017)
Einstein: Chapter Seven
2017
Episode Genius (2017)
Einstein: Chapter One
2017
Episode Who Do You Think You Are? (AU)
Geoffrey Rush
2015
Episode One Plus One
Geoffrey Rush
2014
Episode The Daily Show
Geoffrey Rush
2013
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Geoffrey Rush, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
2013
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Geoffrey Rush, OK Go
2011
Episode At the Movies (2004)
25 Years of Australian Cinema
2011
Episode The Colbert Report
Geoffrey Rush
2011
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 5
2011
Episode Revealed
The King's Speech
2011
Episode Spicks and Specks
Dan Sultan, Denise Scott, Geoffrey Rush & Hamish Blake
2008
Episode Spicks and Specks
Christine Anu, Hamish Blake, Geoffrey Rush & Felicity Ward
2008
Episode Frontline (1994)
The Code
1997