# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:26:10.100Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Geoffrey Roy Rush was born 6 July 1951 and started with the Queensland Theatre Company in 1971, then spent two years at Jacques Lecoq's Paris acting school from 1975. He built a career in international stage work — Waiting for Godot, The Importance of Being Earnest — before winning the Tony for Exit the King in 2009. His film breakthrough came at forty-five: the 1996 drama Shine, where his portrayal of pianist David Helfgott won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Three more Oscar nominations followed — for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Quills (2000) as the Marquis de Sade, and The King's Speech (2010) as Lionel Logue. He became Captain Barbossa across five Pirates of the Caribbean films, voiced a forgetful fish in Finding Nemo, and won the Primetime Emmy playing Peter Sellers in 2004. Rush was named 2012 Australian of the Year and remains the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts.