FILMOGRAPHY

2006] Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007] Pirates of the Caribbean 3
2006] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2005] Kingdom Hearts II (VG)
2005] Munich
2005] Candy
2004] The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (TV)
2003] Harvie Krumpet (voice)
2003] Intolerable Cruelty
2003] Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003] Finding Nemo (voice)
2003] Ned Kelly
2003] Swimming Upstream
2002] The Banger Sisters
2002] Frida
2001] Lantana
2001] The Tailor of Panama
2000] The Magic Pudding (voice)
2000] Quills
1999] House on Haunted Hill
1999] Mystery Men
1998] Shakespeare in Love
1998] Elizabeth
1998] Les Misérables
1998] A Little Bit of Soul
1997] "Frontier" (mini)
1997] Oscar and Lucinda (voice)
1996] Call Me Sal
1996] "Mercury"
1996] Children of the Revolution
1996] Shine
1995] Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1987] Twelfth Night
1982] Starstruck
1981] Hoodwink
1981] "Menotti"

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Geoffrey Rush

Born 6 July 1951 Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

Married to actress Jane Menelaus since 1988, together they have 2 children.

He adapted Pierre Augustin Caron de 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.

Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Queensland, in Australia.

Rush on the Australian film industry:
"You can tell when you look at our film history that it has a very interesting series of ups and downs. We had a very prolific film industry in the silent and early talkies period. Unfortunately we sort of lost out to the more powerful global distribution from the American studio system in the 30s and 40s. We really didn't have an active film industry for about 40 years until, if you can remember back in the 70s film makers like Peter Weir and Julian Armstrong, and Fred Schepisi and Bruce Barrister who emerged. So during my childhood I never ever dreamed that you could made a big Hollywood film in Australia. We had a couple of notable international stars at the time like Rod Taylor and before that Errol Flynn, but it wasn't as active as it seems to be now."

Rush on Pirates Of The Carribean:
"I loved it because it was highly original. This film was unashamedly ear marked to be a summer popcorn blockbuster movie, and it was really great to see a great screen actor like Johnny create a highly original and very imaginative character. Because we tend to associate those kinds of franchises with the explosions or the special effects not the acting."

Rush on who he'd like to work with:
"I never really have a kind of specific wish list, because it doesn't seem to work like that. You know? What I do now is I keep a book in which I write down all the things that I don't do. Because I think that kind of highlights something about the ones that I do, do. I can sit and read a screenplay and have a clear sense that I'd like to work on a particular project or work with a particular person. It was like that for me when I met Philip Kaufman for lunch for the first time ever, and all I've done was read the screenplay (for Quill). It was similar with John Boorman (for Tailor of Panama). You find out in the course of that first meeting, exactly why you want to work with this person. Then you make that decision, and then 10 or 12 other possibilities or 2 or 1 other possibilities drop by the wayside because they don't sort of match that level of potential that you see. Working with Kaufman and Boorman was a great little period for me where I always said I was working with the tribal elders. For me as an actor they took me somewhere very important in my development."

Rush on doing The Life of Death of Peter Sellers:
"It was the ride of my life. It was extraordinary, because it covers all of his life. All kind of curious elements of it. The ups and the down sides of his celebrity.. And curious personality.. And marriages. It was a wonderful thing to do."