Geoffrey Rush

Highest Rated: 99% Finding Nemo (2003)

Lowest Rated: 15% Gods Of Egypt (2016)

Birthday: Jul 6, 1951

Birthplace: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

One of Australia's most popular and distinguished actors, Geoffrey Rush came to the attention of the international community in 1996 with his performance as pianist David Helfgott in Shine (1996). Rush won an Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe, and Australian Film Institute Award for his work, and he subsequently began appearing in films that would further make him known to audiences all over the world. A Queensland native, Rush was born in Toowoomba on July 6, 1951. After taking an arts degree from the University of Queensland, he began his theater career at Brisbane's Queensland Theatre Company. In addition to honing his skills with the classics, Rush lived in Paris for two years, where he studied pantomime at the Jacques Lecoq School of Mime. After returning to Australia, the actor resumed his stage work, at one point co-starring in Waiting for Godot with former roommate Mel Gibson. He spent much of the early '80s as part of director Jim Sharman's Lighthouse troupe and he also began working in film; his debut came in the 1981 Hoodwink, which also featured a young Judy Davis. Rush continued to appear in Australian films and on the stage, directing a number of theatrical productions in addition to acting in them. His big international break came in the form of the aforementioned Shine; following the adulation surrounding his performance as the unbalanced piano prodigy, Rush began to garner substantial roles in a number of high-profile projects. First was Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda (1997), in which he played Oscar's great-grandson. The following year the actor drew raves for his work in Elizabeth, which featured him as the Queen's casually sinister confidant, and Shakespeare in Love, for which he again donned tights, this time to play a debt-ridden theater owner. His work in that film scored him his second Oscar nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actor. The same year, he could also be seen as the dastardly Inspector Javert in Bille August's adaptation of Les Miserables.In 1999, Rush exchanged the past for the future with Mystery Men. Starring as the dastardly Casanova Frankenstein, he shared the screen with an unlikely assortment of actors, including Greg Kinnear, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller, and Paul Reubens. The same year, he starred as an eccentric millionaire who invites a few guests (including Bridgette Wilson, Taye Diggs, and Peter Gallagher) over for some tea and terror in the remake of William Castle's 1958 classic The House on Haunted Hill.At this point audiences in the know were indeed well aware of Rush's versitility, and any actor able to move from the campy, big budget B-horror to the Oscar nominated art-house antics of Phil Kaufman's Quills had little need to prove himself to either critics or audiences. Though he may not have taken home the trophy at the 2001 Academy Awards, his performance as the Marquis de Sade in the Kaufman film drew praise from nearly every corner of the critical spectrum and Rush was now recognized as one of the premier talents of his generation. Whether appearing in such deadly serious independent drama as Frida or wide release cotton candy as The Banger Sisters, Rush was never anything less than fascinating to watch and his enthusiasm for his craft always managed to shine through into his performances. Though the film wasn't seen by the majority of stateside audiences, 2003's Swimming Upstream offered Rush in a meorable turn as the distant father of Australian swimmer Tony Figleton. After taking on one of Austrailia's most notorious outlaws in the 2003 drama Ned Kelley and offering vocal work for the popular Pixar family adventure Finding Nemo, Rush remained on this high seas - this time mostly above water - as the leader of an undead crew of pirates in the 2003 swashbuckler Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Though his menacing performance may have been slightly overshadowed by the flamboyant antics of co-star Johnny Depp, Rush neverthele

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
74%	Final Portrait	Alberto Giacometti	—	2018
29%	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Barbossa	$172.6M	2017
75%	The Daughter	Henry Neilson	$26.9k	2017
82%	David Stratton: A Cinematic Life	Actor	—	2017
15%	Gods Of Egypt	Ra	$31.2M	2016
56%	Minions	TBA	$278M	2015
55%	The Best Offer	Virgil Oldman	$85.9k	2014
46%	The Book Thief	Hans	—	2013
59%	The Eye of the Storm	Executive Producer Basil Hunter	—	2012
26%	Green Lantern	Tomar-Re	$116.7M	2011
32%	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Captain Hector Barbossa	$241.1M	2011
28%	The Warrior's Way	Ron	$5.7M	2010
95%	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue Executive Producer	$138.3M	2010
51%	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	Ezylryb	$54.5M	2010
56%	Bran Nue Dae	Father Benedictus	$0.1M	2010
No Score Yet	Brand New Day	Actor	—	2009
73%	$9.99	The Angel/Homeless Man	—	2008
50%	Whaledreamers	Actor	—	2008
35%	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Sir Francis Walsingham	$16.3M	2007
45%	Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End	Captain Barbossa	$309.5M	2007
49%	Candy	Casper	—	2006
54%	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Captain Barbossa	$423.1M	2006
No Score Yet	Eucalyptus	Actor	—	2006
77%	Munich	Ephraim	$47.4M	2005
No Score Yet	Harvie Krumpet	Narrator	—	2004
61%	Swimming Upstream	Harold Fingleton	—	2004
72%	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Peter Sellers	—	2004
75%	Intolerable Cruelty	Donovan Donaly	$35.1M	2003
79%	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Captain Barbossa	$305.4M	2003
99%	Finding Nemo	Nigel	$380.6M	2003
56%	Ned Kelly	Francis Hare	—	2003
No Score Yet	Mercury	Actor	—	2003
75%	Frida	Leon Trotsky	$25.7M	2002
47%	The Banger Sisters	Harry	$30.2M	2002
90%	Lantana	John	$4.3M	2002
77%	The Tailor of Panama	Harold Pendel	$13.2M	2001
No Score Yet	The Magic Pudding	Bunyip Bluegum	—	2001
75%	Quills	The Marquis de Sade	$4.3M	2000
28%	House on Haunted Hill	Steven Price	—	1999
No Score Yet	A Little Bit of Soul	Godfrey Usher	—	1999
60%	Mystery Men	Casanova Frankenstein	—	1999
92%	Shakespeare in Love	Philip Henslowe	—	1998
82%	Elizabeth	Sir Francis Walsingham	—	1998
74%	Les Miserables	Javert	—	1998
66%	Oscar and Lucinda	Narrator	—	1997
80%	Children of the Revolution	Zachary Welch	—	1997
91%	Shine	David Helfgott (adult)	—	1996
No Score Yet	Dad and Dave: On Our Selection	Dave	—	1995
No Score Yet	Starstruck	Floor Manager	—	1982

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
69%	Genius 2017	Albert Einstein (older)	2018 2017
38%	Chelsea 2016-2017	Appearing	2017
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015	Guest	2017 2016
No Score Yet	CBS This Morning 2012	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 1999-2015	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson 2005-2014	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013	Guest	2011
No Score Yet	Colbert Report 2005-2014	Guest	2011
No Score Yet	Kath & Kim 2002-2007	Guest	2005

Quotes from Geoffrey Rush's Characters

Ra:	Have you gotten so lazy that you've forgotten that every god's life is a journey?

Casper:	When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to stop, you can't.
Candy:	That was beautiful. Let's have some more.

Casper:	When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to stop, you can't.
Dan:	I wasn't trying to wreck Candy's life. I was trying to make mine better.
Candy:	I wanna try it your way this time.

Casper:

When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to stop, you can't.

Billy:	Human emotions are like works of art. They can be forged. They seem just like the original, but they're a forgery.
Virgil Oldman:	Forgery?
Billy:	Everything can be faked, Virgil. Joy, pain, hate, illness, recovery, even love.

Virgil Oldman:

I suppose feeling a certain interest in a person necessarily engenders a conviction that she's beautiful.

Ron:	The warrior learned there's a heck of a lot more pleasure making things grow than there is in cutting them down.

Boron:	We only seek the truth.
Soren:	The truth? We told you the truth. The Pure Ones exist. They will enslave us all and rule our world without pity!! I know that the only proof I have are my words... but words were the only proof I had that you existed, and still I believed.
Ezylryb:	And you would argue with that?

Philip Henslowe:

See you in prison.

Hans:	I’m not sure what it all meant. Everything he went through. Everything we did.
Liesel:	We were just being people. That’s what people do.

Marquis de Sade:

It's a powerful aphrodisiac, isn't it? Having power over another man.

Hans:	"Better that we leave the paint behind, than ever forget the music."
Hans:	Better that we leave the paint behind, than ever forget the music.

Liesel:	It was not always mine.
Hans:	Did you steal it?
Max:	It was not always mine.
Liesel:	Did you steal it?

Lionel Logue:	Do you know any jokes?
King George VI:	...Timing isn't my strong suit.

Yang:	Sheriff?
Ron:	Woman.

Ephraim:	If I cut my nails off the grow up again.
Avner:	Did we accomplish anything at all? Every man we killed has been replaced by worse.
Ephraim:	Why cut my fingernails? They'll grow back.

Ephraim:

Some kitchen donkey thinks that there were two athletes murdered at Munich. But that doesn't make any sense.

George 'Bertie' VI:	I'm not here to discuss personal matters.
Lionel Logue:	Why're you here then?
Lionel Logue:	Why are you here then?
George 'Bertie' VI:	Because I bloody well stammer!
Lionel Logue:	Temper.

Captain Barbossa:	You know Jack, I thought I had you figured out. But it turns out you're a hard man to predict.
Jack Sparrow:	Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you never know when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
Jack Sparrow:	Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you never know when they're going to do something incredibly stupid.

Captain Barbossa:	The world used to be a bigger place.
Jack Sparrow:	World's still the same. There's just less in it.

Ephraim:	We Kill For Our Future, We Kill For Peace.
Ephraim:	We kill for our future. We kill for peace.

Captain Barbossa:

You better start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner, you're in one!

Jack Sparrow:	All hands to the boats! (Barbossa looks at him) Sorry. You give the orders.
Jack Sparrow:	All hands to the boats! [Barbossa looks at him] Sorry. You give the orders.
Captain Barbossa:	Gents, take a walk.
Jack Sparrow:	Not to the boats?

Jack Sparrow:	My ship, makes me captain!
Captain Barbossa:	They be me charts!
Jack Sparrow:	Well, then that makes you...chartman!

Elizabeth Swann:	Barbossa! Marry us!
Captain Barbossa:	I'm a little busy at the moment!

Captain Barbossa:	It be too late to alter course now, maties! Ha ha ha ha!
Captain Barbossa:	[while going down the Maelstrom] It be too late to alter course now, maties!

Nigel:

Now hop inside my mouth, if you want to live.

Marquis de Sade:

I've been to hell, young man. You've only read about it.

Ezylryb:	Fire my boy, is the blood of the tree
Ezylryb:	Fire my boy, is the blood of the tree.

Lionel Logue:	Please don't smoke. I believe sucking cigarette smoke into your lungs will kill you.
George 'Bertie' VI:	I need to relax. My physicians say it relaxes the throat.
Lionel Logue:	They're idiots.
George 'Bertie' VI:	They've all been knighted.
Lionel Logue:	Makes it official then.

Captain Barbossa:	...You need to start believing in ghost stories, you're in one!
Captain Barbossa:	You need to start believing in ghost stories, you're in one!

Captain Barbossa:

I feel... cold.

Captain Barbossa:	Aye, we are good and lost now.
Elizabeth Swann:	Lost?
Captain Barbossa:	For certain you have to be lost to find something that cannot be found, else everyone would know where it is.

Captain Barbossa:

The moon light shows us what we really are.

Captain Barbossa:	Masters Pintel and Ragetti, take this fishwife to the brig.
Pintel:	Right this way, Mrs. Fish.

Narrator:

Oscar had tasted the pudding. It did not taste like the fruit of Satan.

Sir Francis Walsingham:

Madam, if I may. A prince should never flinch from being blamed for acts of ruthlessness which are necessary for safe guarding the state and their own person. You must take these things so much to heart that you do not fear to strike. Even the very nearest that you have if they be implicated.

Elizabeth I:	She has such power over men's hearts. They died for her.
Sir Francis Walsingham:	They have found nothing to replace her.

Basil Hunter:

Bless you darling, for your generosity.

Basil Hunter:

I can't really afford to piss off my mother at the moment.

Captain Barbossa:

Ya gotta start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. YOU'RE IN ONE!

Captain Barbossa:	So what now, Jack Sparrow? Are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle until judgment day and trumpets sound? Hmmm?
Jack Sparrow:	Or you could surrender!

Captain Barbossa:	Aye, we're good and lost now.
Elizabeth Swann:	Lost?
Captain Barbossa:	For certain you have to be lost to find a place as can't be found. Elseways, everyone would know where it was
Captain Barbossa:	For certain you have to be lost to find a place as can't be found. Elseways, everyone would know where it was.

Captain Barbossa:

It's not gettin' to the land of the dead that's the problem...It's gettin' back.

Captain Barbossa:	You've always run away from a fight!
Jack Sparrow:	Have not!
Captain Barbossa:	You have so!
Captain Barbossa:	Have so and you know it!
Jack Sparrow:	Have not slander and callumy. I have only embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. I submit that here now, that is what we all must do. We must fight... To Run Away.
Jack Sparrow:	Have not slander and callumy. I have only embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. I submit that here now, that is what we all must do. We must fight... To run away.
Gibbs:	AYE! (Other pirates repeat)
Gibbs:	AYE! [other pirates repeat]

Elizabeth Swann:	Captain Barbosa, I have come to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal.
Captain Barbossa:	That's a lot of long words, miss. We're naught but humble pirates! What is it you were wanting, exactly?
Elizabeth Swann:	I want you to leave and never come back.
Captain Barbossa:	I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. It means no.

Jack Sparrow:	I'd really hoped we could avoid this.
Captain Barbossa:	Jack, Jack, did you not notice? That be the same island we made you governor of last time around. Maybe you can conjure up another miraculous escape. But I doubt it.
Jack Sparrow:	Last time you gave me a pistol.
Captain Barbossa:	By thunder, your right! Where be Jack's pistol?
Jack Sparrow:	A gentleman would give me a Pair of pistols.
Captain Barbossa:	No, it'll be one pistol like before, and You can be the gentleman and shoot the lady and starve to death yourself.

Captain Barbossa:

What's in your head, boy?

Captain Barbossa:	Who are you?
Jack Sparrow:	He's nobody! A distant relation of my aunt's second cousin's nephew twice removed. [pointing back at Will] Eunuch.
Will Turner:	I am William Turner! The son of William Turner! His blood runs in my veins!
Ragetti:	He's the spitting image of old Bootstrap!
Captain Barbossa:	Name your terms Mr. Turner.
Will Turner:	Elizabeth goes free!
Captain Barbossa:	Yes, we know that one. Anything else?

Lionel Logue:	Do you know The "F Word"?
Lionel Logue:	Do you know The 'F word'?
George 'Bertie' VI:	F-F-Fornication?

King George VI:	Listen to Me! Listen to Me!
Lionel Logue:	Why would i waste my time listening to you?
Lionel Logue:	Why would I waste my time listening to you?
King George VI:	because i have a voice!
King George VI:	because I have a voice!
Lionel Logue:	yes you do
Lionel Logue:	Yes you do.

Ephraim:

We have eleven Palestenian names, each who handed on planning Munich, you are going to kill' em one by one.

King George VI:	What are you doing? Get up you can't seat there. Get up.
King George VI:	[Sees Logue is sitting on the coronation throne] What are you doing? Get up! You can't sit there! GET UP!
Lionel Logue:	Why not? It's a chair.

Captain Barbossa:

I feel... cold.

Captain Barbossa:

Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, so we cannot die, but neither are we dead.

Captain Barbossa:	You're supposed to be dead!
Jack Sparrow:	Am I not?
Jack Sparrow:	Am I not?

Ron:	[from trailer] Ninjas. Damn.
Ron:	Ninjas. Damn.

Lionel Logue:	Do you know the "F" word?
Lionel Logue:	Do you know the "f" word?
George 'Bertie' VI:	Fornicate?
George 'Bertie' VI:	Ffff... fornication?

Lionel Logue:	"We're not a family we're a firm."
Lionel Logue:	We're not a family, we're a firm.

Lionel Logue:	You still stammered on the 'W'.
King George VI:	Well I had to throw in a few so they knew it was me.

Lionel Logue:	I believe that sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you.
King George VI:	My physicians say it relaxes the throat.
Lionel Logue:	They're idiots.
King George VI:	They've all been knighted.
Lionel Logue:	Makes it official then.

Tomar-Re:	The biggest threat the corps ever faced was Parallax.
Tomar-Re:	The greatest threat the Corps ever faced was Parallax, an entity that fed on the yellow energy of fear.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

Mermaid waters, that be our path.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

Are we not king's men?

Captain Barbossa:	Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures... but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. You all know this to be true!
Captain Barbossa:	Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures, but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. You all know this to be true!

Elizabeth Swann:	I hardly believe in ghost stories, Captain Barbossa.
Captain Barbossa:	Aye. That's exactly what I thought when first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find it, we did. And there be the chest... and inside, be the gold. We took them all! Spent 'em, traded 'em and fritted 'em away, for drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave them away, the more we came to realize. The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, nor the company in the world would harm or slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were. But now, we are consumed by it.
Captain Barbossa:	Aye. That's exactly what I thought when first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find it, we did. And there be the chest, and inside, be the gold. We took them all! Spent 'em, traded 'em and fritted 'em away, for drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave them away, the more we came to realize. The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, nor the company in the world would harm or slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were. But now, we are consumed by it.

Captain Barbossa:

The Medallion! She's taken it! Get after her you feckless pack of ingrates!

Lionel Logue:	You don?t need to be afraid of things you were afraid of when you were five.
Lionel Logue:	You don't need to be afraid of things you were afraid of when you were five.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

What be wrong with an old man havin a hobby?

Captain Hector Barbossa:	The Revenge is mine.
Captain Hector Barbossa:	The revenge is mine.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

Gentlemen, the fountain is the prize. Mermaid waters, that be our path.

Lionel Logue:	Pauses are fine... it shows solemnity
Lionel Logue:	Pauses are fine, it shows solemnity
King George VI:	Then I'm the solemnest King in the world!

King George VI:	My doctor said smoking relaxes the larynx
Lionel Logue:	Well, they're idiots
Lionel Logue:	Well, they're idiots.
George 'Bertie' VI:	But I'm not supposed to light it
George 'Bertie' VI:	But I'm not supposed to light it.
Lionel Logue:	That makes it official
Lionel Logue:	That makes it official.

Lionel Logue:	Do you know the "F" word?
Lionel Logue:	Do you know the 'F' word?
George 'Bertie' VI:	Fu...fu...fu.... Fornication!

Tomar-Re:	The ring turns thought into reality
Tomar-Re:	The ring turns thought into reality.

Nigel:

Fish are friends, not food.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

Dying is the day worth living for.

Captain Hector Barbossa:	"So tell me.....What's become of my ship?"
Captain Hector Barbossa:	So tell me... What's become of my ship?
Captain Hector Barbossa:	So tell me. What's become of my ship?

Captain Barbossa:

We are cursed men, Miss Turner.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

You can sleep when you're dead!

Captain Barbossa:

Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures... but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. You all know this to be true!

Lionel Logue:	I believe sucking smoke into your lungs, well it will kill you.
Lionel Logue:	I believe sucking smoke into your lungs, well, it will kill you.
George 'Bertie' VI:	My physicians all say it relaxes the throat.
Lionel Logue:	Well they're idiots.
Lionel Logue:	Well, they're idiots.
George 'Bertie' VI:	They've all been knighted.
Lionel Logue:	(pause) Makes it official then.