Geoffrey Roy Rush AC (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. He is known for his eccentric leading man roles on stage and screen. He is among 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting, having received an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award. He also received three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.

Filmography

• 2026Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? — Dr. Daniels
• 2025Pirates of the Caribbean | Disneyland Resort — Captain Barbossa (voice)
• 2025The Rule of Jenny Pen — Stefan Mortensen, Executive Producer
• 2019Storm Boy — Mike 'Storm Boy' Kingley, Executive Producer
• 2017Final Portrait — Alberto Giacometti
• Genius — Albert Einstein
• 2017Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales — Hector Barbossa
• 2016Gods of Egypt — Ra
• 2015Holding the Man — Barry
• 2015Minions — Narrator (voice)
• 2015Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose — Oak Tree
• 2015The Daughter — Henry
• 2015Unity — Narrator (voice)
• 2013The Best Offer — Virgil Oldman
• 2013The Book Thief — Hans Hubermann
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• 2012The Man Who Could Not Dream — Narrator / Talking Bird
• 2011Green Lantern — Tomar-Re (voice)
• 2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — Hector Barbossa
• 2011The Eye of the Storm — Basil Hunter, Executive Producer
• 2010Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole — Ezylryb (voice)
• Lowdown — Narrator (voice)
• 2010The King's Speech — Lionel Logue, Executive Producer
• 2010The Warrior's Way — Ron
• 2009$9.99 — Angel (voice)
• 2009Bran Nue Dae — Father Benedictus
• 2008The Man Inside Dame Edna — Narrator (Australian version) (voice)
• 2007Elizabeth: The Golden Age — Sir Francis Walsingham
• 2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End — Barbossa
• 2007The Pixar Story — Nigel (voice) (archive footage)
• 2006Candy — Casper
• 2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Captain Hector Barbossa
• 2005Munich — Ephraim
• The Colbert Report
• 2004The Life and Death of Peter Sellers — Peter Sellers
• 2003Finding Nemo — Nigel (voice)
• 2003Harvie Krumpet — Narrator (voice)
• 2003Intolerable Cruelty — Donovan Donaly
• 2003Ned Kelly — Superintendent Francis Hare
• 2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — Barbossa
• 2003Swimming Upstream — Harold Fingleton
• 2002Frida — Leon Trotsky
• Kath & Kim — Geoff
• 2002The Banger Sisters — Harry Plummer
• 2001Lantana — John Knox
• 2001The Tailor of Panama — Harry Pendel
• 2000Quills — Marquis de Sade
• 2000The Magic Pudding — Bunyip Bluegum (voice)
• 1999House on Haunted Hill — Stephen Price
• 1999Mystery Men — Casanova Frankenstein
• 1998A Little Bit of Soul — Godfrey Usher
• 1998Elizabeth — Sir Francis Walsingham
• 1998Les Misérables — Javert
• 1998Shakespeare in Love — Philip Henslowe
• 1997Oscar and Lucinda — Narrator (voice)
• 1997Twisted — Harry Chisholm (segment 'Bonus Mileage')
• 1996Children of the Revolution — Zachary Welch
• Mercury — Bill Wyatt
• 1996Shine — David Helfgott - Adult
• Twisted Tales — Harry Chisholm
• 1995Dad and Dave: On Our Selection — Dave Rudd
• 1987Twelfth Night — Sir Andrew Aguecheek
• 1982Starstruck — Floor Manager
• 1981Hoodwink
• Being Brendo — Dr. Lance Pickering
• Raised Eyebrows — Groucho Marx
• Shearing the Love — Bob Castlehead, Executive Producer
• Verona Spies

Appearances as themselves (10)

• Chelsea — Self
• Australian Encounters — Himself - Narrator
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006Whaledreamers — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• 2002The Nature of Lantana — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
• The View — Self
• The Oscars — Self