Geoffrey Rush

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Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning Australian actor. He is the first Australian-born person to win an Academy Award for acting.<p>Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia to Merle Kiehne, a sales clerk, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Australian Air Force. His parents divorced when he was five, and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in the suburbs. Before he began his acting career, he attended Everton Park State High School. He began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane. In 1975, Rush took off for Paris for a couple of years, and studied mime and pantomime at the famous Jacques Le Coq School Of Mime, then returned to Australia to resume his stage career. He also has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland. While at university, he roomed with fellow Australian actor Mel Gibson.<p>Rush has appeared on stage for Company B, and for the Queensland Theatre Company and the