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Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. Known for often playing eccentric roles on both stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award, making him the only Australian to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, in addition to three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Rush is the founding president of the Australian Acade…
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In the circumstances, I have decided to step aside in my ambassadorial role as president of Aacta effective immediately and until these issues have been resolved. “This decision has not been made lightly. However, in the current climate of innuendo and unjustifiable reporting, I believe the decision to make a clean break to clear the air is the best for all concerned.
Costume drama is a very difficult phrase for me. I want to be taken into the inner lives and the world and the political forces, the inner and outer worlds of the narrative with an immediacy that makes me not even think about the costumes.
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“In the circumstances, I have decided to step aside in my ambassadorial role as president of Aacta effective immediately and until these issues have been resolved. “This decision has not been made lightly. However, in the current climate of innuendo and unjustifiable reporting, I believe the decision to make a clean break to clear the air is the best for all concerned.”
“Costume drama is a very difficult phrase for me. I want to be taken into the inner lives and the world and the political forces, the inner and outer worlds of the narrative with an immediacy that makes me not even think about the costumes.”
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“tragic comedy about mortality”
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The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’
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It was announced Rush would star opposite Isabelle Huppert in a film adaptation of the Justin Fleming stage play Burnt Piano directed by Fred Schepisi
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It was announced Rush would star opposite John Lithgow in the horror thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen
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Was announced to be starring as Groucho Marx in an adaptation of the memoir Raised Eyebrows
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Received the Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush appeal: Daily Telegraph and Nationwide News lose defamation case against actor – live news
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush case: Daily Telegraph and Nationwide News lose defamation appeal against actor
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush defamation appeal: testimony of other actors 'squarely against' star witness
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush defamation appeal: $2.9m 'manifestly excessive', newspaper says
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush defamation appeal: Daily Telegraph drops claim judge displayed bias
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush's record $2.9m defamation payout faces appeal by Daily Telegraph
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush loses bid to prevent News Corp from repeating allegations
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush defamation case: newspaper's appeal 'weighs heavily' on actor
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush to receive record $2.9m damages in Daily Telegraph defamation case
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The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush defamation case: News Corp appeal to claim judge was 'biased'
The Guardian: The Geoffrey Rush trial shows defamation can make victims become victims all over again | Richard Ackland
The Guardian: Geoffrey Rush versus Daily Telegraph: what swung the ruling the actor's way
Rush played the character of adult Michael Kingley in the family drama Storm Boy alongside Finn Little, Jai Courtney, and Trevor Jamieson
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Upon winning the Screen Actors Guild Award as Winston Churchill for Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman praised Rush as a "giant of acting" along with Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Richard Jenkins, and Denzel Washington
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The film was named the 16th "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" by The New York Times
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Rush starred in Stanley Tucci's film Final Portrait alongside Armie Hammer
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Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (2014).
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Was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) Australia's highest civilian honour, for eminent service to the arts as a theatre performer, motion picture actor and film producer, as a role model and mentor
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Rush appeared alongside Jim Sturgess in psychological thriller The Best Offer with The Hollywood Reporter noting in their mixed review, "[The film] is worth watching for Geoffrey Rush’s sensitive, never pandering perform
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Awarded Australian of the Year (2012).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The King's Speech (2011).
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Was honoured with Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Award
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Rush made a cameo in a commercial, The Potato Peeler, for the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), playing a Polish farmer
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Rush played the lead in a theatrical adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's short story The Diary of a Madman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Rush portrayed Sir Basil Hunter in the Fred Schepisi directed adaptation of Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White's novel, The Eye of the Storm
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Rush returned to the stage, playing Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone on its Australian tour
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Awarded Theatre World Award (2009).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Exit the King (2009).
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Rush made his Broadway debut in a re-staging of Exit the King under Malthouse Theatre's touring moniker Malthouse Melbourne and Company B Belvoir
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Received Australian Film Institute Longford Life Achievement Award and was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artist"
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Earning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
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Starred as King Berenger in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne and Company B in Sydney, directed by Neil Armfield
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Rush hosted the Australian Film Institute Awards for the Nine Network
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2005).
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Appeared in Steven Spielberg's Munich as Ephraim, a Mossad agent
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Received the Hollywood Film Festival for Supporting Actor of the Year
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Received the Australian Film Institute Award for Global Achievement Award
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Rush played Leon Trotsky to Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo in Julie Taymor's Frida
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Won Centenary Medal (2001).
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Was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to the arts
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Rush starred in Philip Kaufman's Quills where he played the Marquis de Sade alongside Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Elizabeth (1999).
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Rush took the lead role as Steven Price in the horror film House on Haunted Hill, and played the villain in the superhero comedy film Mystery Men
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Shine (1998).
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Appeared in three major costume dramas
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Shine (1997).
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With Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor
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Rush played Horatio in a production of Hamlet alongside Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie and David Wenham in the Company B production at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney
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At The Playhouse in Adelaide) and Troilus and Cressida (at the Old Museum Building in 1989)
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Shared an apartment with actor Mel Gibson for four months while they co-starred in a stage production of Waiting for Godot
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Rush went to Paris for two years and studied mime, movement and theatre at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq
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Born 1951-07-06.
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