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2 unusual facts about Geoffrey Rush


Bedlam Productions

Bedlam's first major feature production was the award winning The King's Speech (2010), starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter.

Norwood Town Hall

The Town Hall's concert hall featured in the film Shine with Geoffrey Rush playing the role of the pianist David Helfgott.


Bob Burden

Burden's Mystery Men was the subject of a 1999 film adaptation, directed by Kinka Usher and starring Ben Stiller and Geoffrey Rush.

Graeme Brosnan

While at NIDA Graeme studied under such luminaries as George Ogilvie (Mad Max, Bodyline) and George Whalley (On Our Selection, Harp in the South) and worked on Whalley’s Jane Street Theatre production of Waiting for Godot which starred Mel Gibson and Geoffrey Rush.

Hugh Lunn

Lunn is now famous in Queensland for a number of autobiographical books: in June 2009 he was voted as a Queensland Icon as one of 15 "influential artists" in the state's history in a list of 15 which included the Bee Gees, Geoffrey Rush, Powderfinger and David Malouf.

Jim Sharman

The ensemble included many major Australian artists, including actors Geoffrey Rush, Gillian Jones, John Wood and Kerry Walker and associate director Neil Armfield, who would further develop this adventurous tradition at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre.

Jonathan Biggins

Stage appearances include The Importance of Being Earnest (in which he appeared as "John Worthing", inheriting the role from Geoffrey Rush) — also appearing in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Orpheus in the Underworld, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy operas Ruddigore and The Mikado .

Melissa Thomas

Her film work to date includes: Ghost Town (2000) playing a patient, alongside Ricky Gervais, Swimming Upstream (2003) playing Dawn Fraser, alongside Geoffrey Rush and Jesse Spencer, Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997) playing a bridesmaid, alongside Cate Blanchett (known as The Wedding Party in the USA), and Dallas Doll (1993) playing Margaret, alongside Sandra Bernhard and Rose Byrne.

Raymond Longford

Since the introduction of the award by the AFI in 1968, winners have included Peter Weir, David Stratton, Ian Jones and Geoffrey Rush.

Renya Xydis

Xydis has rendered her services to well-known people, including Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh, Hugh Jackman, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths, Miranda Otto and Ian Thorpe.

State Theatre Company of South Australia

Notable actors, writers and directors, working with the Company include Neil Armfield, Ruth Cracknell, Andrew Bovell, Judy Davis, Gale Edwards, Mel Gibson, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sharman, Hugo Weaving and John Wood.


see also

Lech Mackiewicz

He received the New South Wales Performing Arts Scholarship in 1991; assisted Neil Armfield on the production of Diary of A Madman with Geoffrey Rush at Belvoir St Theatre; directed and acted internationally: Australia, Poland, Japan, Korea, Italy.