Geoffrey Rush

Q: Has Geoffrey Rush won any major awards?

Yes, Geoffrey Rush won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 'Shine' and has received multiple BAFTA and AACTA awards throughout his career.

Q: What was Geoffrey Rush's first film?

Geoffrey Rush's first film role was in 'The Boneyard' (1989), where he played a supporting character, marking the beginning of his film career.

Q: What is Geoffrey Rush's acting style?

Rush is known for his immersive and versatile acting style, often bringing depth to complex characters, whether in drama or comedy.

Q: How many children does Geoffrey Rush have?

Geoffrey Rush has two children, Angelica and James Rush, who are both known to keep a low profile.

Q: What is Geoffrey Rush's estimated net worth?

Geoffrey Rush's estimated net worth is around $40 million, reflecting his successful career in film and theater.

Q: What notable theater work has Geoffrey Rush done?

Geoffrey Rush has a rich theater background, having performed in productions such as 'King Lear' and 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' showcasing his stage prowess.

Q: What character did Geoffrey Rush play in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'?

In 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' Geoffrey Rush played Captain Hector Barbossa, a memorable role that contributed to his international fame.

Known for

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl poster

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

IMDb 8.1 / 10

2003 / Action, Adventure / 143 min

Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 18th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End poster

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)

IMDb 7.1 / 10

2007 / Action, Adventure / 169 min

Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner...

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides poster

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2011 / Action, Adventure / 136 min

Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless...

Name

Geoffrey Rush

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

6 July 1951, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

Spouses

Jane Menelaus (1988–present)

Children

2, Angelica Rush, James Rush

Parents

Merle Rush, Geoffrey Rush Sr.

Estimated Net Worth

$40 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? Vietnam veteran Allen Nelson returns with severe PTSD, winding up on the streets before crossing paths with Dr. Daniels of...	Dr. Daniels	Not rated
2025	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean \| Disneyland Resort Set sail on a treacherous voyage to the 17th century! As part of the Disneyland® Resort 70th Celebration we're sending...	Captain Barbossa (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2025	Movie The Rule of Jenny Pen Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath...	Stefan Mortensen	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2019	Movie Storm Boy Storm Boy lives a lonely life with his reclusive father on a desolate coastline, but when he forms a close...	Mike 'Storm Boy' Kingley	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2017	Movie Final Portrait Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation,...	Alberto Giacometti	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when...	Hector Barbossa	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	TV Genius The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their...	Albert Einstein	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	TV Chelsea It's not her first talk show, but it is a first of its kind. Ideas, people and places that fascinate...	Self	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2016	Movie Gods of Egypt A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.	Ra	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	Movie The Daughter In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding....	Henry	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2015	Movie Holding the Man Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team,...	Barry	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2015	Movie Unity Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2015	Movie Minions Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2015	Movie Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose A nightingale bird discovers a true lover when she witnesses a young university student talk with great passion about his...	Oak Tree	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2013	Movie The Book Thief While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others....	Hans Hubermann	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2013	TV Australian Encounters Presented with humour and verve, Australian Encounters celebrates ten historic encounters, each between a renowned Australian and an international mover...	Himself - Narrator	Not rated
2013	Movie The Best Offer Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to...	Virgil Oldman	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2012	Movie The Man Who Could Not Dream Samuel is 9 years old, he will be remembered as a thief, an arsonist and a murderer.	Narrator / Talking Bird	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2012	Movie Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so...	(archive footage)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2011	Movie The Eye of the Storm In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter...	Basil Hunter	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2011	Movie Green Lantern For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order....	Tomar-Re (voice)	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2011	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides When Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past, he's not sure if it's love...or if she's a ruthless...	Hector Barbossa	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	Movie The Warrior's Way A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.	Ron	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	Movie The King's Speech The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II....	Lionel Logue	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2010	Movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the...	Ezylryb (voice)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2010	TV Lowdown Lowdown shines a torch on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2009	Movie Bran Nue Dae In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome...	Father Benedictus	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2009	Movie $9.99 Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question...	Angel (voice)	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2008	Movie The Man Inside Dame Edna A character portrait of the enigmatic comedian Barry Humphries on his most recent Australian tour and an examination of the...	Narrator (Australian version) (voice)	Not rated
2007	Movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must...	Sir Francis Walsingham	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	Movie The Pixar Story A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion...	Nigel (voice) (archive footage)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2007	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to...	Barbossa	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2007	TV The Graham Norton Show Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler...	Captain Hector Barbossa	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2006	Movie Whaledreamers "Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers...	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2006	Movie Candy A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of...	Casper	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2005	Movie Munich During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group...	Ephraim	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2005	TV The Colbert Report The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2004	Movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC...	Peter Sellers	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2004	TV The Tony Danza Show The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was...	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2003	Movie Harvie Krumpet The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2003	Movie Intolerable Cruelty A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.	Donovan Donaly	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2003	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann,...	Barbossa	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2003	Movie Finding Nemo Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's...	Nigel (voice)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2003	Movie Ned Kelly After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened....	Superintendent Francis Hare	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2003	Movie Swimming Upstream A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father...	Harold Fingleton	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2003	TV Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2002	Movie The Banger Sisters In the late '60s, the self-proclaimed belles of the rock 'n' roll ball, rocked the worlds of every music legend...	Harry Plummer	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2002	Movie Frida A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her...	Leon Trotsky	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2002	Movie The Nature of Lantana The making of Lantana, a 2001 Australian drama film directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2002	TV Kath & Kim Kath & Kim is a character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by...	Geoff	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2001	TV Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and...	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie Lantana Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her....	John Knox	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2001	Movie The Tailor of Panama A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection...	Harry Pendel	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2000	Movie The Magic Pudding Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff....	Bunyip Bluegum (voice)	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2000	Movie Quills In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate...	Marquis de Sade	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1999	Movie House on Haunted Hill An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a decrepit...	Stephen Price	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1999	Movie Mystery Men When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday...	Casanova Frankenstein	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1998	Movie Shakespeare in Love Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written....	Philip Henslowe	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1998	Movie Elizabeth The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts...	Sir Francis Walsingham	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1998	Movie Les Misérables In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The...	Javert	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1998	Movie A Little Bit of Soul Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both...	Godfrey Usher	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1997	Movie Oscar and Lucinda After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1997	Movie Twisted Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's...	Harry Chisholm (segment 'Bonus Mileage')	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie Children of the Revolution A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin...	Zachary Welch	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1996	TV Twisted Tales Stories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a...	Harry Chisholm	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie Shine Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to...	David as an adult	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1996	TV Mercury Mercury was an Australian TV series that launched in 1996. It featured Geoffrey Rush.	Bill Wyatt	Not rated
1995	Movie Dad and Dave: On Our Selection Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to...	Dave Rudd	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1987	Movie Twelfth Night Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her...	Sir Andrew Aguecheek	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1982	Movie Starstruck A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.	Floor Manager	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1981	Movie Hoodwink Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	TV Being Brendo Everything from BDSM to drag queens, gay bashings to gay-bies. In 'Being Brendo', being gay is just the beginning.	Dr. Lance Pickering	TMDB 1.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Verona Spies Verona, a lovable hot mess, is hired as an escort/assassin through a case of mistaken identity. Her mission: to seduce...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Raised Eyebrows Based on Steve Stoliar’s memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House.	Groucho Marx	Not rated
TBA	Movie Shearing the Love Set against New Zealand’s Golden Shears – the Olympics of competitive sheep shearing – Brian Castlehead, a washed-up hairstylist to...	Bob Castlehead	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie The Rule of Jenny Pen Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2019	Movie Storm Boy Storm Boy lives a lonely life with his reclusive father on a desolate coastline, but when he forms a close...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2011	Movie The Eye of the Storm In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2010	Movie The King's Speech The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II....	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.7 / 10
TBA	Movie Shearing the Love Set against New Zealand’s Golden Shears – the Olympics of competitive sheep shearing – Brian Castlehead, a washed-up hairstylist to...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated