Geoffrey Rush

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-07-06 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

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.

Acting

2003

Finding Nemo

as Nigel (voice)

2002

Frida

as Leon Trotsky

2005

Munich

as Ephraim

2003

Ned Kelly

as Superintendent Francis Hare

1998

Shakespeare in Love

as Philip Henslowe

2001

The Tailor of Panama

as Harry Pendel

1998

2006

Candy

as Casper

2000

Quills

as Marquis de Sade

1998

Elizabeth

as Sir Francis Walsingham

2007

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

as Sir Francis Walsingham

2003

Harvie Krumpet

as Narrator (voice)

1999

House on Haunted Hill

as Stephen Price

2003

Intolerable Cruelty

as Donovan Donaly

1996

Shine

as David as an adult

2002

The Banger Sisters

as Harry Plummer

2001

Lantana

as John Knox

2000

The Magic Pudding

as Bunyip Bluegum (voice)

1999

Mystery Men

as Casanova Frankenstein

1996

2003

Swimming Upstream

as Harold Fingleton

2011

Green Lantern

as Tomar-Re (voice)

2009

Bran Nue Dae

as Father Benedictus

2009

$9.99

as Angel (voice)

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Raised Eyebrows

as Groucho Marx

2011

The Eye of the Storm

as Basil Hunter

2013

The Best Offer

as Virgil Oldman

2016

2013

The Book Thief

as Hans Hubermann

2010

The King's Speech

as Lionel Logue

2007

The Pixar Story

as Nigel (voice) (archive footage)

1987

Twelfth Night

as Sir Andrew Aguecheek

2025

The Rule of Jenny Pen

as Stefan Mortensen

2012

1997

Twisted

as Harry Chisholm (segment 'Bonus Mileage')

2015

The Daughter

as Henry

2017

Final Portrait

as Alberto Giacometti

2015

Minions

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2015

1998

A Little Bit of Soul

as Godfrey Usher

1982

Starstruck

as Floor Manager

2019

Storm Boy

as Mike 'Storm Boy' Kingley

1997

Oscar and Lucinda

as Narrator (voice)

2006

2012

The Man Who Could Not Dream

as Narrator / Talking Bird

2008

The Man Inside Dame Edna

as Narrator (Australian version) (voice)

Production

2010

The King's Speech

as Executive Producer

2011

The Eye of the Storm

as Executive Producer

2019

Storm Boy

as Executive Producer

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