Geoffrey Rush

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geoffrey Rush, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

July 9, 2003

Finding Nemo

May 30, 2003

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

July 6, 2006

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

May 19, 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

May 15, 2011

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Acting roles

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
—	Verona Spies
2024	The Rule of Jenny Pen
—	Raised Eyebrows	Groucho Marx
—	Being Brendo	Dr. Lance Pickering
2019	Storm Boy	Mike 'Storm Boy' Kingley
2017	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Hector Barbossa
2017	Genius	Albert Einstein
2017	Final Portrait	Alberto Giacometti
2016	Gods of Egypt	Ra
2016	Chelsea	Self
2015	Minions	Narrator (voice)
2015	Holding the Man	Barry
2015	The Daughter	Henry
2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)
2015	Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose	Oak Tree
2013	The Book Thief	Hans Hubermann
2013	The Best Offer	Virgil Oldman
2013	Australian Encounters	Himself - Narrator
2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)
2012	The Man Who Could Not Dream	Narrator / Talking Bird
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Hector Barbossa
2011	Green Lantern	Tomar-Re (voice)
2011	The Eye of the Storm	Basil Hunter
2010	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue
2010	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	Ezylryb (voice)
2010	The Warrior's Way	Ron
2010	Lowdown	Narrator (voice)
2009	$9.99	Angel (voice)
2009	Bran Nue Dae	Father Benedictus
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Hector Barbossa
2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Sir Francis Walsingham
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2007	The Pixar Story	Nigel (voice) (archive footage)
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Hector Barbossa
2006	Candy	Casper
2006	Whaledreamers	Self
2005	Munich	Ephraim
2005	The Colbert Report
2004	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Peter Sellers
2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self - Guest
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Hector Barbossa
2003	Finding Nemo	Nigel (voice)
2003	Intolerable Cruelty	Donovan Donaly
2003	Ned Kelly	Superintendent Francis Hare
2003	Harvie Krumpet	Narrator (voice)
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003	Swimming Upstream	Harold Fingleton
2003	An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Self
2002	Frida	Leon Trotsky
2002	The Banger Sisters	Harry Plummer
2002	Kath & Kim	Geoff
2002	The Nature of Lantana	Self
2001	The Tailor of Panama	Harry Pendel
2001	Lantana	John Knox
2001	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross	Self - Guest
2000	Quills	Marquis de Sade
2000	The Magic Pudding	Bunyip Bluegum (voice)
1999	House on Haunted Hill	Stephen Price
1999	Mystery Men	Casanova Frankenstein
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Philip Henslowe
1998	Elizabeth	Sir Francis Walsingham
1998	Les Misérables	Javert
1998	A Little Bit of Soul	Godfrey Usher
1997	The View	Self
1997	Oscar and Lucinda	Narrator (voice)
1997	Twisted	Harry Chisholm (segment 'Bonus Mileage')
1996	Shine	David as an adult
1996	Children of the Revolution	Zachary Welch
1996	Mercury	Bill Wyatt
1995	Dad and Dave: On Our Selection	Dave Rudd
1987	Twelfth Night	Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1982	Starstruck	Floor Manager
1981	Hoodwink
1953	The Oscars	Self

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2019	Storm Boy	Executive Producer
2011	The Eye of the Storm	Executive Producer
2010	The King's Speech	Executive Producer