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Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on 6 July 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, of Scottish, Irish, English and German ancestry. Geoffrey is a film producer and actor, known for his varied performance abilities, but particularly for being the youngest among the few people who have won the “Triple Crown of Acting” – an Academy Award, Primetime Emmy Award and Tony Award. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Geoffrey Rush? As of mid-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $40 million, mostly earned through a successful career as an actor. For his performance in the film “Shine”, he became the first actor to win an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics’ Choice Movie Award for a single performance. All of these achievements ensured the position of his wealth.

Geoffrey attended Everton Park State High School, and after matriculating went to the University of Queensland, graduating with a BA degree. During his time at the university, he performed with the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC), appearing in 17 productions with the company. In 1975 he moved to Paris, studying theatre, movement and mime at L’Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq.

Rush’s first theatre production was “Wrong Side of the Moon” – he performed with QTC for four years and he then started appearing in various Shakespeare plays, and in “The Importance of Being Earnest”. He continued in numerous stage productions which increased his net worth, including in 1998 playing the title role in “The Marriage of Figaro”, and he also started working as a theatre director, contributing further to his net worth.

In 2007, he was cast in a production of “Exit the King”, for which he received a Helpmann Award nomination. He later made his Broadway debut in a re-staging of “Exit the King”, winning many awards for his performance. Some of his latest productions include “The Drowsy Chaperone”, “The Diary of a Madman” and another production of “The Importance of Being Earnest”.

For his film career, Geoffrey made his debut in 1981 with the film “Hoodwink”, which led him to other small roles in television dramas which steadily increased his net worth. He then got his film breakthrough in 1996 with “Shine” which won him the plethora of awards already mentioned. Two years later, he would appear in “Shakespeare in Love”, “Les Miserables”, and “Elizabeth”, and then received his third Academy Award nomination for “Quills” in which he played Marquis de Sade. He continued to make films, and would become very popular in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film series as Captain Hector Barbossa. He then scored several awards in the television film “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”, and in 2010 earned more nominations when he was cast in “The King’s Speech” as speech therapist Lionel Logue. One of his latest projects is the film “The Best Offer” which is based on the novel “The Book Thief”.

For his personal life, it is known that Rush married actress Jane Menelaus in 1988 and they have two children. He is based with his family in Camberwell, Victoria.

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• [In response to being asked about favorite actors he has worked with] Johnny Depp, we’ve been together for four-and-a-half years now on these films; he’s one of the great character actors in a leading man’s body who constantly surprises himself and his audience with his capabilities and imagination.
• [ on Johnny Depp] — I’ve been lucky because I do regard myself as a slightly aging character and I’ve been able to be in scenes with delightful women, like Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, Goldie Hawn . . . It’s been a perk of the job. And the prettiest of all, of course, was Johnny Depp. He’s so good-looking and he’s a highly unpredictable and quite genius-type actor. He’s so irreverent, so playful, so surprising on screen. He’s an actor of such oblique approach to any given project; he always does something that no one’s done before. With the pirate thing, you expect someone to be a bit like Barbossa, because he’s historical-it goes back to Basil Rathbone or Robert Newton, the golden age of Hollywood villainy. But Jack Sparrow is not what anyone expected-[Depp] approaches it as a great actor. He’s also a very cunning craftsman. He knows how to give you the fun of the character in the wide shots, and then he has these little internal moments in the close-ups. I always felt a bit like a piece of industrial machinery next to his efforts. Someone like Johnny is a great team leader . . . it’s great not to have a diva. It’s great to have someone who’s very laid-back, very playful . . . he’s probably the only person who dares to ad-lib. A lot of what he throws in makes it into the final mix. Jack Sparrow is some crazy part of Johnny’s brain.
• [on Johnny Depp] — Jack is probably the pirate that everyone wants to be; he is freewheeling, he is absolutely his own man, he’s hilarious-he’s like Johnny. It was extraordinary to watch Johnny create this character. It was such a cool performance, very masterfully done. He is a brilliant actor. I’m Johnny’s biggest fan. I was having a conversation with someone the other day and saying, “Do you know anyone in all of Hollywood history who’s had the kind of independent, idiosyncratic, chameleon-like character actor career that Johnny Depp’s got?” He brings all of that into this big pop, commercial film as Jack, and in the meantime goes off and does Finding Neverland and The Libertine, and now Sweeney Todd! If you look back on old Hollywood, I can’t think of anyone who was that sort of model good-looking, Hollywood star who happened to be a brilliant character actor.
• [on replaying the role of “Barbossa” to Johnny Depp’s “Captain Jack Sparrow”] It’s become an imaginative metaphor for me and Johnny as actors. It feels like we’ve been married for a long time and there are certain things that are never going to resolve themselves within the marriage. It’s an interesting way for us to find the context for this kind of constant spat.
• [on accepting roles that might be considered risky] Occasionally you need to jump off a cliff and do things you know are not immediately within your grasp.
• [on performing with Colin Firth] [He] made me better. I didn’t have to act listening. I was mesmerized by the hidden areas of truth he was uncovering.
• [on accepting the role of “Lionel Logue” in The King’s Speech (2010)]: I first got the script in a fairly unorthodox way. It was in a brown paper package at my front door, like an orphaned child. A neighbour of mine knew this woman in London who wanted to produce it as a play, and on the coverlet it said, “Please forgive me, Mr. Rush, for sending this to your home, blah blah blah”, and I read it and I went wow, great story.
• [about Quills (2000)] When you get to tongue kiss Kate Winslet and get paid for it, you say: I’ll sign!
• “My career has been in theatre for 23 years, with spits and coughs in bits and pieces of films. Scott [Hicks] very nicely said my entire career had been my audition [for the role in Shine (1996)]”.
• [Regarding he and Joseph Fiennes appearing in both Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Elizabeth (1998)] “He got to make love to Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. All I got was an Oscar nomination”.

Geoffrey Roy Rush Important Facts

• He won an Oscar for playing David Helfgott in _Shine (1996), making him one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Seargent York (1941)_, Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President’s Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)_, Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and most recently Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).
• He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The King’s Speech (2010). Colin Firth also appeared in both films.
• Is an accomplished pianist, whom needed no hand stand-in for Shine (1996) and played almost all of the pieces in the movie himself.
• As of 2014, has appeared in five films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Shine (1996), Elizabeth (1998), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Munich (2005) and The King’s Speech (2010). Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The King’s Speech (2010) are winners in the category.
• Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia [January 2009]
• Currently lives in Melbourne, Australia [May 2004]
• His father was of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, and his mother was of German descent.
• Is one of 9 actors to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Thomas Mitchell, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Scofield, Jack Albertson, Jason Robards, Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino and Christopher Plummer.
• Rush was awarded the Australian of the Year for 2012 by Australian PM Julia Gillard.
• Became the fourth actor to appear in 2 films to gross $1 billion with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011). He is the first actor from the southern hemisphere to achieve this feat.
• His favorite film is City Lights (1931) and often shows it at parties to people who have never seen the film before. Other favorites include Zelig (1983), War and Peace (1966), Persona (1966) and Amarcord (1973).
• Became the 19th actor to win the triple crown of acting: In 2009 won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (Exit the King) to go with his Oscar for Shine (1997) and his Emmy for Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).
• He was awarded the 2009 Tony Award for Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the play, “Exit the King” on Broadway in New York City.
• Is one of 11 actors to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Jamie Foxx for Ray (2004), Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005), Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006), Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men (2007), Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007), Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008), and Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Colin Firth for The King’s Speech (2010), Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010), and J.K. Simmons for Whiplash (2014).
• He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen’s New Years Honours List for his services to the arts especially through a distinguished acting career.
• He won an Oscar for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), making him one of 12 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2007).
• He was named Alumnus of the Year by the University of Queensland (Australia) in 1998.
• Actively involved with Melbourne Community Groups in preserving historical landscapes from adverse development; particularly in regard to Camberwell Railway Station where he organized a protest march, attended by Barry Humphries amongst other luminaries (2004).
• Attended the Jacques Lecoq School of Mime, Movement and Theater.
• Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Queensland, in Australia.
• Has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland.
• He began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Once lived with Mel Gibson while they were in college.
• Children: Angelica (1992) and James (1995)
• He adapted Beaumarchais’s play “The Marriage of Figaro”, with Neil Armfield, for the inaugural production in the new Optus Playhouse in the Queensland Performing Arts Complex, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in September, 1998. He also played the title role of Figaro in the same production.

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