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Geoffrey Rush (b. July 6, 1951, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia) is an Academy Award-winning Australian stage and film actor. Rush may be remembered by younger fans for his role as Captain Barbosa in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Raised in Brisbane, Rush became interested in theatre in his youth. He made his stage debut in Wrong Side of the Moon and gained attention in the musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" . Rush made his film debut in 1981 in the film Hoodwink and landed his first major film role in the 1987 Shakespeare production Twelfth Night.
After taking a break from hard work in 1992, he returned to film in 1987. His first genre appearance was a 1996 episode of Twisted Tales. He followed up with the acclaimed filmShine which earned him an Oscar, a Golden Globe and several other awards and Children of the Revolution costarring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. Rush took on his first regular series role as Bill Wyatt in the short-lived 1996 series Mercury.
Over the years, Rush has taken on a variety of roles in noteworthy films. He appeared in the 1998 film Les Misérables as Inspector Javert alongside Liam Neeson and Uma Thurman, the hstorical bipic, Elizabeth starring fellow Australian, Cate Blanchett, the comic book adaptation Mystery Men, House on Haunted Hill with Famke Janssen and Taye Diggs, the biopic Frida and starring Salma Hayek. In 2003 he lent his voice to the animated tale Finding Nemo and followed up with his debut as Barbosa in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl he also appeared in the film's sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. In 2007, Rush reprised his role as Sir Francis Walsingham in the sequel to Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
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