Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was inside Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the as punishment month. Inside 1996, he starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. From either that point in, his career skyrocketed. Around 1998 he appeared in iii major films --
Les Misérables, in which he played Inspector Javert; Elizabeth, in which he played a suspicious Sir Francis Walsingham; and Shakespeare in Love in which he played the acting company manager world health organization remained equanimity midmost of chaos (& received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor).

Within 1999, Geoffrey Rush appeared in the title role of Figaro in the play "The Marriage of Figaro" (on which a opera was depending) for the Queensland Theatre Company premiere (opening) production of the Optus Playhouse, at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The pun on Geoffrey Rush's name (& a circumstances), was utilized in a opening prologue of a play using the comment that the "Optus Playhouse was opening with a Rush".

Within 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played a Marquis de Sade.

Rush's career continues at an astonishingly convenient pace, sustaining nine films freed from either 2001 through 2003. Rush as well starred in the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Barbossa. He too played actor Peter Sellers in the TV movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. For even this performance, he recieved an Emmy winside for Better Actor in the Mini-series or Moving-picture show.