Geoffrey Rush Net Worth

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Geoffrey Rush is an Australian actor and film producer who has a net worth of $40 million. Rush is credited as being one of the few people to have won the Triple Crown of Acting, an Academy Award, Tony Award, and Emmy Award. Geoffrey was named Australian of the Year in 2012, and he served as President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts from 2011 to 2017. Rush has appeared in more than 60 film and television projects, including “Shine” (1996), “Shakespeare in Love” (1998), “Quills” (2000), “The King’s Speech” (2010), “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers” (2004), and “Genius” (2017).

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Career

In 1980, Rush was cast as Father Peter Fuller on the Australian television series “Menotti,” and he made his film debut in 1981’s “Hoodwink.” He then appeared in the films “Starstruck” (1982) and “Twelfth Night” (1986) and the miniseries “Frontier” (1987). Geoffrey got his big break when he landed the role of David Helfgott in 1996’s “Shine,” which earned him several awards, including an Oscar. In 1998, he portrayed Inspector Javert in “Les Misérables,” Sir Francis Walsingham in “Elizabeth,” and Philip Henslowe in “Shakespeare in Love.” In 1999, Rush starred in the superhero comedy “Mystery Men” and the horror movie “House on Haunted Hill,” then he portrayed the Marquis de Sade in 2000’s “Quills.” He played Leon Trotsky in “Frida” (2002) and appeared in “The Tailor of Panama” (2001), “Lantana” (2002), “The Banger Sisters” (2002), “Swimming Upstream” (2003), “Ned Kelly” (2003), “Intolerable Cruelty” (2003), “Munich” (2005), and “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2007), and he voiced Nigel the pelican in 2003’s “Finding Nemo,” which brought in $940.3 million at the box office.

Personal Life

Geoffrey married actress Jane Menelaus on November 20, 1988, and they welcomed daughter Angelica in 1992 and son James in 1995. In November 2017, the tabloid “The Daily Telegraph” reported that Rush had engaged in “inappropriate behaviour” with a co-star onstage during a Sydney Theatre Company production of “King Lear.” Eryn Jean Norvill alleged that Geoffrey had “touched her genitals during the production of ‘King Lear’ without her consent” on five consecutive nights in 2015. Rush filed a defamation lawsuit against “The Daily Telegraph” and he was awarded $850,000 in November 2018. The following month, the publication was ordered to pay Geoffrey $2.87 million.

Inspirational Quotes by Geoffrey Rush

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

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Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

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Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'

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I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

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I die in almost every film I've been in.

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