Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, but was raised in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia after his parents split up.  He attended Everton Park State High School during his formative years.  His early interest in the theatre led to his 1971 stage debut at age 20 in "Wrong Side of the Moon" with the Queensland Theatre Company.

Geoffrey Roy Rush

I know him as Captain Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, just at the ending of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

He suffered a temporary nervous breakdown in 1992 due to overwork and anguish over his lack of career advancement.  Within a few years filmgoers finally began taking notice of Geoffrey after his performance in Children of the Revolution (1996).  This led him to THE role of a lifetime as the highly dysfunctional piano prodigy David Helfgott in Shine (1996).  His astonishing tour-de-force performance won him every unthinkable award imaginable, including the Oscar, Golden Globe, British Film Award and Australian Film Institute Award.

Married to Jane Menelaus from November 20, 1988 - Present, and has 2 children.  Angelica was born in 1992, and James was born in 1995.

He has been in more movies that some of us can't even imagine.  Here's a couple of them: Mystery Men (1999), House on Haunted Hill (1999), Finding Nemo (2003), and The Life and Death of Peter Stellers (2004).

I'm really excited for his upcoming movie The Book Thief!  We're reading it in class right now and we're almost done with it.  It's about the horrors of WWII Germany, a young girl named Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others.  Under the stairs in her home (with her adoptive parents), a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.  Im not going to give anymore spoilers, YOU HAVE TO READ IT FIRST!!!!!!!

The Book Thief

Anyways, he has made a real fortune from his acting career.  Let's hope his acting career keeps moving forward, while he's still alive at least.