Geoffrey Rush
Acting • Born 1951-07-06
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.
Filmography
75 credits
Finding Nemo
Movie • 2003
Nigel (voice)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Movie • 2003
Barbossa
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Movie • 2007
Barbossa
Frida
Movie • 2002
Leon Trotsky
Munich
Movie • 2005
Ephraim
Ned Kelly
Movie • 2003
Superintendent Francis Hare
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Movie • 2011
Hector Barbossa
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Movie • 2004
Peter Sellers
Shakespeare in Love
Movie • 1998
Philip Henslowe
The Tailor of Panama
Movie • 2001
Harry Pendel
Les Misérables
Movie • 1998
Javert
Candy
Movie • 2006
Casper
Quills
Movie • 2000
Marquis de Sade
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Movie • 2007
Sir Francis Walsingham
Elizabeth
Movie • 1998
Sir Francis Walsingham
Harvie Krumpet
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
House on Haunted Hill
Movie • 1999
Stephen Price
Intolerable Cruelty
Movie • 2003
Donovan Donaly
Shine
Movie • 1996
David as an adult
The Banger Sisters
Movie • 2002
Harry Plummer
Lantana
Movie • 2001
John Knox
The Magic Pudding
Movie • 2000
Bunyip Bluegum (voice)
Mystery Men
Movie • 1999
Casanova Frankenstein
Children of the Revolution
Movie • 1996
Zachary Welch
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Movie • 2010
Ezylryb (voice)
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
Movie • 1995
Dave Rudd
Swimming Upstream
Movie • 2003
Harold Fingleton
Green Lantern
Movie • 2011
Tomar-Re (voice)
Bran Nue Dae
Movie • 2009
Father Benedictus
The Warrior's Way
Movie • 2010
Ron
Hoodwink
Movie • 1981
$9.99
Movie • 2009
Angel (voice)
Raised Eyebrows
Movie
Groucho Marx
The Eye of the Storm
Movie • 2011
Basil Hunter
The Best Offer
Movie • 2013
Virgil Oldman
Gods of Egypt
Movie • 2016
Ra
The Book Thief
Movie • 2013
Hans Hubermann
The King's Speech
Movie • 2010
Lionel Logue
The Pixar Story
Movie • 2007
Nigel (voice) (archive footage)
Twelfth Night
Movie • 1987
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Movie • 2025
Stefan Mortensen
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Twisted
Movie • 1997
Harry Chisholm (segment 'Bonus Mileage')
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Movie • 2017
Hector Barbossa
Verona Spies
Movie
The Daughter
Movie • 2015
Henry
Final Portrait
Movie • 2017
Alberto Giacometti
Minions
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Unity
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Holding the Man
Movie • 2015
Barry
Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
Movie • 2015
Oak Tree
A Little Bit of Soul
Movie • 1998
Godfrey Usher
Starstruck
Movie • 1982
Floor Manager
Storm Boy
Movie • 2019
Mike 'Storm Boy' Kingley
Oscar and Lucinda
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
Whaledreamers
Movie • 2006
Self
The Nature of Lantana
Movie • 2002
Self
The Man Who Could Not Dream
Movie • 2012
Narrator / Talking Bird
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
Movie
The Man Inside Dame Edna
Movie • 2008
Narrator (Australian version) (voice)
Shearing the Love
Movie
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 2004
Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Kath & Kim
TV • 2002
Geoff
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Mercury
TV • 1996
Bill Wyatt
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Lowdown
TV • 2010
Narrator (voice)
Genius
TV • 2017
Albert Einstein
Chelsea
TV • 2016
Self
Australian Encounters
TV • 2013
Himself - Narrator
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Being Brendo
TV
Dr. Lance Pickering