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Geoffrey Rush

Australian actor (born 1951)

  • Fame65.2
  • Momentum12.1
  • Australia rank#157
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Born 1951 · age 75Australia
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  • Wikipedia
    74 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Australia
    #157
    Actors
  • Age
    75
    Born 1951
  • Known for
    Pirates of the Caribbe…
    2003
Summary
Updated 2026-08-31

He's the only Australian to win the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony — the Triple Crown — and he did it playing eccentrics: a unhinged pianist, a profane pirate captain, a king's speech therapist, Peter Sellers losing his mind.

Biography

About

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 (…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Rush
saidundated
But there is a scary side to acting for me, because I have always wanted to develop rather than plateau out.
— "Geoffrey Rush interview".
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Filmography

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TV credits

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Awards

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  • Companion of the Order of Australia
  • Australian of the Year
  • BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Where to find them

Platforms

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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Stable
65.2
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum12.1
Historical28.8
Now attention26.4
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
Global rank
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Country rank
#157
Category rank
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence