
Geoffrey Rush
Highest Rated: 99% Finding Nemo (2003)
Lowest Rated: 15% Gods of Egypt (2016)
Birthday: Jul 06, 1951
Birthplace: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Actor Geoffrey Rush was little known outside his native Australia when he soared to international prominence on the wings of his remarkable portrayal of eccentric pianist David Helfgott in Scott Hicks' acclaimed biopic "Shine" (1996), for which he won a slew of awards, including an Oscar for Best Actor. Arguably his country's top stage actor, he had struggled for years to achieve recognition, but post-"Shine," Rush would remain both prolific and highly regarded as a film presence. Rush chewed the scenery with relish in the Academy Award-winning "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, and brought the depraved Marquis de Sade to life with unsettling voracity in "Quills" (2000). He played brilliantly off of a cast-against-type Pierce Brosnan in the spy thriller "The Tailor of Panama" (2001) before taking to the high seas in the mega-franchise "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003), as the ghost pirate Barbossa, who Rush would portray several more times. He went on to win awards for his title performance in the cable biopic "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" (HBO, 2004), and won critical praise for his role as an early 20th-Century vocal therapist in "The King's Speech" (2010). Always unconventional, Rush excelled in essaying characters who were alternately eccentric, cowardly, brilliant, or insane - sometimes a combination of all four - creating one of the most impressive résumés of any actor of his generation.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Storm Boy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
68% | 73% | Storm Boy |
Mike "Storm Boy" Kingley (Character), Executive Producer |
$67.7K | 2019 |
73% | 49% | Final Portrait | Alberto Giacometti (Character) | $460.9K | 2017 |
29% | 61% | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Captain Hector Barbossa (Character) | $172.5M | 2017 |
15% | 37% | Gods of Egypt | Ra (Character) | $31.1M | 2016 |
77% | 63% | The Daughter | Henry (Character) | $26.4K | 2015 |
55% | 49% | Minions | Narrator | $336M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose | Oak Tree (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Unity | Narrator | - | 2015 |
81% | 81% | Holding the Man | Barry (Character) | - | 2015 |
56% | 77% | The Best Offer | Virgil Oldman (Character) | $82K | 2013 |
48% | 73% | The Book Thief | Hans Hubermann (Character) | $21.4M | 2013 |
60% | 46% | The Eye of the Storm | Basil Hunter (Character) | $67K | 2011 |
33% | 54% | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Barbossa (Character) | $241.1M | 2011 |
26% | 45% | Green Lantern | Tomar-Re (Voice) | $116.6M | 2011 |
31% | 47% | The Warrior's Way | Ron (Character) | $5.7M | 2010 |
94% | 92% | The King's Speech |
Lionel Logue (Character), Executive Producer |
$138.8M | 2010 |
52% | 63% | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Ezylryb (Voice) | $55.7M | 2010 |
56% | 52% | Bran Nue Dae | Father Benedictus (Character) | $110K | 2009 |
73% | 55% | $9.99 | Angel (Voice) | $52.1K | 2008 |
44% | 72% | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Capt. Barbossa (Character) | $309.4M | 2007 |
35% | 59% | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Sir Francis Walsingham (Character) | $16.3M | 2007 |
47% | 77% | Candy | Casper (Character) | $44.7K | 2006 |
53% | 72% | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Barbossa (Character) | $423.3M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eucalyptus | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
78% | 83% | Munich | Ephraim (Character) | $47.4M | 2005 |
69% | 72% | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Peter Sellers (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Harvie Krumpet | Narrator | - | 2003 |
75% | 48% | Intolerable Cruelty | Donovan Donaly (Character) | $35.1M | 2003 |
79% | 86% | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Barbossa (Character) | $305.4M | 2003 |
99% | 86% | Finding Nemo | Nigel (Voice) | - | 2003 |
55% | 53% | Ned Kelly | Superintendent Hare (Character) | $74.9K | 2003 |
75% | 85% | Frida | Leon Trotsky (Character) | $25.8M | 2002 |
48% | 42% | The Banger Sisters | Harry (Character) | $30.3M | 2002 |
61% | 80% | Swimming Upstream | Harold Fingleton (Character) | $47.2K | 2002 |
77% | 46% | The Tailor of Panama | Harry Pendel (Character) | $13.5M | 2001 |
90% | 82% | Lantana | John (Character) | $4.5M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 55% | The Magic Pudding | Bunyip Bluegum (Voice) | - | 2000 |
75% | 83% | Quills | The Marquis de Sade (Character) | $7.1M | 2000 |
31% | 42% | House on Haunted Hill | Stephen H. Price (Character) | $40.8M | 1999 |
61% | 57% | Mystery Men | Casanova Frankenstein (Character) | $29.8M | 1999 |
92% | 80% | Shakespeare in Love | Philip Henslowe (Character) | $100.2M | 1998 |
82% | 86% | Elizabeth | Sir Francis Walsingham (Character) | $30.1M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 0% | A Little Bit of Soul | Godfrey Usher (Character) | - | 1998 |
75% | 83% | Les Miserables | Javert (Character) | $13.9M | 1998 |
66% | 65% | Oscar and Lucinda | Narrator | $1.6M | 1997 |
91% | 90% | Shine | David as an Adult (Character) | $35.9M | 1996 |
80% | 71% | Children of the Revolution | Welch (Character) | $830.6K | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Dad and Dave: On Our Selection | Dave Rudd (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twelfth Night | Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Character) | - | 1986 |
TV
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70% | 58% | Genius | Albert Einstein (Character) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2017 2013 |
41% | 61% | Chelsea | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Access Hollywood Live | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 34% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Do You Think You Are? | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS This Morning | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Morning America | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lowdown | Unknown (Character) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Q With Jian Ghomeshi | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live With Regis and Kelly | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Made in Hollywood | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Oprah Winfrey Show | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS News Sunday Morning | Guest | 2011 |
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