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Geoffrey Rush Trivia Questions

How much do you really know about Geoffrey Rush? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

Geoffrey Rush played Captain Barbossa in all five 'Pirates of the Caribbean' films.

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He portrayed Captain Hector Barbossa in every film from 'The Curse of the Black Pearl' (2003) through 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' (2017).

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Geoffrey Rush voiced the character of Nigel the pelican in the Pixar film 'Finding Nemo'.

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Geoffrey Rush provided the voice for Nigel the pelican in the 2003 Pixar animated film Finding Nemo.

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Geoffrey Rush won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Peter Sellers in the TV film 'The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'.

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Rush won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for that 2004 HBO biopic.

4.

Geoffrey Rush was originally cast as King George VI in 'The King's Speech' but dropped out due to scheduling.

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Colin Firth played the King. Rush played speech therapist Lionel Logue in the film, earning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.

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Geoffrey Rush was the first Australian-born actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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He won for 'Shine' (1996) at the 1997 Oscars. Peter Finch, who won for 'Network' (1976), was born in England, making Rush the first winner born in Australia.

6.

Rush once performed Shakespeare's 'King Lear' entirely in reverse order as an experimental play.

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No record of such a performance exists. Geoffrey Rush played King Lear in a 2015 Sydney Theatre Company production, which was a standard staging, not an experimental reverse-order version.

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Geoffrey Rush studied at the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris, a school known for physical theatre and clowning.

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He attended the school from 1975 to 1977, where he learned mime, movement, and clowning techniques that influenced his acting.

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Geoffrey Rush has never won an Academy Award.

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Geoffrey Rush won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as David Helfgott in the 1996 film 'Shine'.

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