Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on 6 July 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, of Scottish, Irish, English and German ancestry. Geoffrey is a film producer and actor, known for his varied performance abilities, but particularly for being the youngest among the few people who have won the “Triple Crown of Acting” – an Academy Award, Primetime Emmy Award and Tony Award. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Geoffrey Rush? As of mid-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $40 million, mostly earned through a successful career as an actor. For his performance in the film “Shine”, he became the first actor to win an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics’ Choice Movie Award for a single performance. All of these achievements ensured the position of his wealth.
Geoffrey Rush Net Worth $40 million
Geoffrey attended Everton Park State High School, and after matriculating went to the University of Queensland, graduating with a BA degree. During his time at the university, he performed with the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC), appearing in 17 productions with the company. In 1975 he moved to Paris, studying theatre, movement and mime at L’Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq.
Rush’s first theatre production was “Wrong Side of the Moon” – he performed with QTC for four years and he then started appearing in various Shakespeare plays, and in “The Importance of Being Earnest”. He continued in numerous stage productions which increased his net worth, including in 1998 playing the title role in “The Marriage of Figaro”, and he also started working as a theatre director, contributing further to his net worth.
In 2007, he was cast in a production of “Exit the King”, for which he received a Helpmann Award nomination. He later made his Broadway debut in a re-staging of “Exit the King”, winning many awards for his performance. Some of his latest productions include “The Drowsy Chaperone”, “The Diary of a Madman” and another production of “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
For his film career, Geoffrey made his debut in 1981 with the film “Hoodwink”, which led him to other small roles in television dramas which steadily increased his net worth. He then got his film breakthrough in 1996 with “Shine” which won him the plethora of awards already mentioned. Two years later, he would appear in “Shakespeare in Love”, “Les Miserables”, and “Elizabeth”, and then received his third Academy Award nomination for “Quills” in which he played Marquis de Sade. He continued to make films, and would become very popular in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film series as Captain Hector Barbossa. He then scored several awards in the television film “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”, and in 2010 earned more nominations when he was cast in “The King’s Speech” as speech therapist Lionel Logue. One of his latest projects is the film “The Best Offer” which is based on the novel “The Book Thief”.
For his personal life, it is known that Rush married actress Jane Menelaus in 1988 and they have two children. He is based with his family in Camberwell, Victoria.
