Geoffrey Rush
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1951-07-06
Place of birth: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
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
2003Nigel (voice)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003Barbossa
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007Barbossa
Frida
2002Leon Trotsky
Munich
2005Ephraim
Ned Kelly
2003Superintendent Francis Hare
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011Hector Barbossa
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004Peter Sellers
Shakespeare in Love
1998Philip Henslowe
The Tailor of Panama
2001Harry Pendel
Les Misérables
1998Javert
Candy
2006Casper
Quills
2000Marquis de Sade
Elizabeth
1998Sir Francis Walsingham
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007Sir Francis Walsingham
Harvie Krumpet
2003Narrator (voice)
House on Haunted Hill
1999Stephen Price
Intolerable Cruelty
2003Donovan Donaly
Shine
1996David as an adult