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Geoffrey Roy Rush (age 57) was born 6 July 1951. He is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, Emmy-, AFI- and Academy Award-winning Australian actor. He is the first Australian-born person to win an Academy Award for acting. He is also the only Australian person to win it playing an Australian character (although American Linda Hunt won one for playing an Australian character in The Year of Living Dangerously).
Originally a Queenslander from regional Toowoomba, Rush moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria.

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Rush lives in Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He has become involved in the preservation of heritage and architecture, becoming a figurehead for a campaign for the preservation of Camberwell Railway Station from demolition by developers and championing a National Trust of Australia (Victoria) poll for the Victorian Heritage Icons Awards.
Since 1988, Rush has been married to actress Jane Menelaus, with whom he has a daughter, Angelica was born 1992 and a son, James was born 9th Sep 1995.
Filmography
1981 Hoodwink Detective 1
Menotti TV Series
1982 Starstruck Floor Manager
1987 Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1996 Shine David Helfgott (adult) Academy Award for Best Actor
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Mercury Bill Wyatt TV series
Children of the Revolution Zachary Welch
1997 Frontier Soldier Administrator David Collins TV mini-series
Oscar and Lucinda Narrator voice
1998 A Little Bit of Soul Godfrey Usher Nominated - Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Les Misérables Inspector Javert
Elizabeth Sir Francis Walsingham BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Shakespeare in Love Philip Henslowe Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1999 Mystery Men Casanova Frankenstein
House on Haunted Hill Stephen H. Price
2000 Quills Marquis de Sade Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
The Magic Pudding Bunyip Bluegum voice
2001 The Tailor of Panama Harold 'Harry' Pendel
Lantana John Knox
2002 Frida Leon Trotsky
The Banger Sisters Harry Plummer
2003 Swimming Upstream Harold Fingleton Nominated - Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Ned Kelly Superintendent Francis Hare
Finding Nemo Nigel voice
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Captain Hector Barbossa
Intolerable Cruelty Donovan Donaly
Harvie Krumpet Narrator voice
Australian Film Institute Global Achievement Award
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Peter Sellers Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
2005 Munich Mossad case officer Ephraim
2006 Candy Casper Nominated - Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Captain Hector Barbossa uncredited cameo
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Captain Hector Barbossa
Elizabeth: The Golden Age Sir Francis Walsingham
2008 $9.99 Angel post-production
Laundry Warrior Town Drunk post-production
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Thomas Jack Black (age 39) was born August 28, 1969. He is an American actor, comedian and musician. With his friend Kyle Gass, he makes up one half of the comedy and rock music duo Tenacious D. The group has two albums and a full-length movie. His acting career is extensive, starring primarily as bumbling, cocky, but internally self-conscious outsiders in comedy films. He is a member of the Frat Pack, a group of comedians who have appeared together in several Hollywood films, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe award.
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Regarding exercise, Black has been quoted as saying that Ultimate is the only form of exercise that he doesn't hate. Black dated actress and comedian Laura Kightlinger from 1997 until 2005. In January 2006, he became engaged to Tanya Haden (daughter of the jazz double bassist Charlie Haden, and sister of violinist and singer Petra Haden). Haden herself is an accomplished cellist. Both attended Crossroads school, but met again 15 years after graduating, at a friend's birthday party. Black proposed marriage around Christmas 2005 with a $50,000 Neil Lane ring. They married on March 14, 2006, in Big Sur, California. Their son, Samuel Sammy Jason Black, was born on June 10, 2006, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. On May 23, 2008, Black and his wife welcomed their second child, another boy, whom they named Thomas Tommy David Black.
Black's comedic style combines many key elements from both sides of the traditional double act. Black typically begins a skit in which he presents an earnest introduction to a premise or subject that quickly reveals itself to be flawed or fundamentally ludicrous. Black then switches completely to a far-extreme caricature of human emotion.
His would-be straight-man Gass often functions to trigger these outbursts. Tenacious D’s subject matter illustrates this technique. In Tribute, Tenacious D tells a story in which they claim to have performed, The Greatest Song in the World, for a, Shiny Demon, who would otherwise EAT THEIR SOULS. In Inward Singing, Black doesn’t merely discover a new vocal technique, he discovers what he refers to as "the most powerful tool in singing technology since yodeling". Black's skits also use the catchphrase 'more cushion for the pushin', a self-deprecating reference to his abdominal body fat.
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