Geoffrey Rush
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"Geoffrey Roy Rush", , is an Australian actor and film producer. He is one of the few people who have won the "List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards#Three competitive awards/Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting (from four nominations), three British Academy Film Awards (from five nominations), two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the founding President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year. He is also notable for being the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor/Oscar, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role/BAFTA, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama/Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role/SAG Award, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor/Critics' Choice Award for a single performance (Shine (film)/Shine).

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I had a total of 38 wigs, for a start. There were prosthetics, too - silicone pieces which go on the skin, which absorb the light. They looked like seven pieces of uncooked veal to start with.

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I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

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People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

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He's a failed Hollywood writer in his 50s and he's going back to Phoenix to address a problem he has with his father. This is where I think [writer/director] Bob Dolman has been really clever.

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The Tailor of Panama.

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Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

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Pirates of the Caribbean.

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When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

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