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.

KNOWN FOR

The View
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2011
The Colbert Report
2011
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2007
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Finding Nemo
2003
Chelsea
2017
Genius
2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007
The Oscars
1997
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
78
Producing
5
2026
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
as Dr. Daniels
2025
The Rule of Jenny Pen
as Stefan Mortensen
2025
Pirates of the Caribbean | Disneyland Resort
as Captain Barbossa (voice)
2019
Storm Boy
as Mike 'Storm Boy' Kingley
2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
as Hector Barbossa
2017
Final Portrait
as Alberto Giacometti
2017
Genius
as Albert Einstein
2017
Chelsea
as Self
2016
Gods of Egypt
as Ra
2015
The Daughter
as Henry
2015
Minions
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Holding the Man
as Barry
2015
Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
as Oak Tree
2013
The Best Offer
as Virgil Oldman
2013
The Book Thief
as Hans Hubermann
2013
Australian Encounters
as Himself - Narrator
2013
Being Brendo
as Dr. Lance Pickering
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
The Man Who Could Not Dream
as Narrator / Talking Bird
2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Hector Barbossa
2011
Green Lantern
as Tomar-Re (voice)
2011
The Eye of the Storm
as Basil Hunter
2011
The Colbert Report
2011
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Ezylryb (voice)
2010
The Warrior's Way
as Ron
2010
The King's Speech
as Lionel Logue
2010
Lowdown
as Narrator (voice)
2009
Bran Nue Dae
as Father Benedictus
2009
$9.99
as Angel (voice)
2008
The Man Inside Dame Edna
as Narrator (Australian version) (voice)
2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Barbossa
2007
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Sir Francis Walsingham
2007
The Pixar Story
as Nigel (voice) (archive footage)
2007
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2007
The View
as Self
2006
Candy
as Casper
2006
Whaledreamers
as Self
2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Captain Hector Barbossa
2005
Munich
as Ephraim
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Peter Sellers
2004
The Tony Danza Show
as Self - Guest
2004
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest
2004
Kath & Kim
as Geoff
2003
Finding Nemo
as Nigel (voice)
2003
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
as Barbossa
2003
Ned Kelly
as Superintendent Francis Hare
2003
Harvie Krumpet
as Narrator (voice)
2003
Intolerable Cruelty
as Donovan Donaly
2003
Swimming Upstream
as Harold Fingleton
2002
Frida
as Leon Trotsky
2002
The Banger Sisters
as Harry Plummer
2002
The Nature of Lantana
as Self
2001
The Tailor of Panama
as Harry Pendel
2001
Lantana
as John Knox
2000
Quills
as Marquis de Sade
2000
The Magic Pudding
as Bunyip Bluegum (voice)
1999
House on Haunted Hill
as Stephen Price
1999
Mystery Men
as Casanova Frankenstein
1998
Shakespeare in Love
as Philip Henslowe
1998
Les Misérables
as Javert
1998
Elizabeth
as Sir Francis Walsingham
1998
A Little Bit of Soul
as Godfrey Usher
1997
Twisted
as Harry Chisholm (segment 'Bonus Mileage')
1997
Oscar and Lucinda
as Narrator (voice)
1997
The Oscars
as Self
1996
Shine
as David Helfgott - Adult
1996
Children of the Revolution
as Zachary Welch
1996
Mercury
as Bill Wyatt
1996
Twisted Tales
as Harry Chisholm
1995
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
as Dave Rudd
1987
Twelfth Night
as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1982
Starstruck
as Floor Manager
1981
Hoodwink
Raised Eyebrows
as Groucho Marx
Verona Spies
Shearing the Love
as Bob Castlehead