Everything about Geoffrey Rush totally explained
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born
6 July 1951) is a
Golden Globe-,
BAFTA-,
Emmy-, AFI- and
Academy Award-winning
Australian
actor. He is the first Australian-born person to win an Academy Award for acting. He is also the only Australian person to win it playing an Australian character (American
Linda Hunt won one for playing an Australian character in
The Year of Living Dangerously).
Biography
Early life
Rush was born in
Toowoomba,
Queensland,
Australia, the son of Merle (
née Kiehne), a department store sales clerk, and Roy Baden Rush, an
accountant for the
Royal Australian Air Force. His parents divorced when he was five, and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in the suburbs. Before he began his acting career, he attended
Everton Park State High School. He began his acting career with the
Queensland Theatre Company in
Brisbane. In 1975, Rush took off for Paris for a couple of years, and studied
mime and
pantomime at the famous
Jacques Le Coq School of Mime, then returned to Australia to resume his stage career. In 1979, he shared an apartment with actor
Mel Gibson for four months, while they co-starred in a stage production of
Waiting for Godot. Rush is also the Patron of the Empire Theatre in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Filmography
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