Geoffrey Rush Biography

Geoffrey Rush has appeared on stage for Company B the Brisbane Arts Theatre as well as in many other theatre venues and has worked as a theatre director.
Geoffrey Rush also appeared in the William Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale with the South Australia Theatre Company in 1987 (at The Playhouse in Adelaide South Australia) and Troilus and Cressida (at the Old Museum Building in 1989). He also appeared in an on-going production of The Importance of Being Earnest as John Worthing.
Geoffrey Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was in Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck the following year. In 1996 he starred in Shine for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. From that point on his career skyrocketed.
In September 1998 Geoffrey Rush played the title role in the Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro for the Queensland Theatre Company. This was the opening production of the Optus Playhouse at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank in Brisbane. A pun on Geoffrey Rush's name (and the circumstances) was used in the opening prologue of the play with the comment that the Optus Playhouse was opening with a Rush.

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