* 1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and producer

He, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-winning character.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

* July 6 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor

In 2002, she appeared in The Banger Sisters opposite Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush.

The 1996 drama Shine achieved an Academy Award for Best Actor award for Geoffrey Rush and Gregor Jordan's 1999 film Two Hands gave Heath Ledger his first leading role.

Their productions occasionally incorporate the return to the live stage of famous Australian screen actors such as Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush etc.

* Geoffrey Rush ( born 1951 ), Australian actor and film producer

The capital cities host such internationally renowned cultural institutions as the Sydney Opera House and National Gallery of Victoria, and Australia has contributed many artists to music and film internationally, from hard rock's AC / DC to opera's Joan Sutherland, to Hollywood actors Geoffrey Rush and Nicole Kidman.

Organisations such as the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art have fostered students of theatre, film, and television several of whom have continued to international success, with actors like Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush having been associated with both institutions.

Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna, for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critics ' Best Newcomer Award.

The 2010 film, The King's Speech, features a scene where the king's speech therapist Lionel Logue, as played by Geoffrey Rush, auditions for the role by reciting the lines, " Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun son of York ,".

The following year, Bana co-starred with Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush in Steven Spielberg's controversial film Munich.

A brown pelican ( voiced by Geoffrey Rush in an Australian accent ) was as illustrated as a friendly, virtuous talking character named Nigel in the animated children's film Finding Nemo, set in the Pacific Ocean near Australia, although only the white Australian Pelican is known to occur in that country.

* Quills ( 2000 ), directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine

In the 2010 film The King's Speech, Lionel Logue ( Geoffrey Rush ) recites Caliban's famous speech from Act 3, Scene 2, to amuse and educate his children.

He was portrayed by actor Geoffrey Rush in the Academy Award-winning film Shakespeare in Love.

The refurbishments also included other Audio-Animatronic figures of Jack Sparrow, and one of Hector Barbossa ( who replaced the original captain of the Wicked Wench ship ), along with new special effects, improved lighting and audio, and an appearance by the films ' supernatural character Davy Jones, all voiced by the original actors ( Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, and Bill Nighy, respectively ).

* The Trotsky assassination is depicted in the film Frida ( 2002 ), with Mercader portrayed by Antonio Zava ( uncredited ) and Trotsky by Geoffrey Rush.

Its captain, Hector Barbossa ( Geoffrey Rush ), is trying desperately to break an ancient Aztec curse that he and the crew are under.

The following year, she took the part of Julia Cook in Gregor Jordan's Australian film Ned Kelly opposite Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, and Geoffrey Rush, as well as the Merchant-Ivory film Le Divorce portraying Roxeanne de Persand, a poet who is abandoned by her husband Charles-Henri de Persand at the time she is pregnant.

Paul Hogan went from painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to local TV star, then global film star with his hugely successful Crocodile Dundee in 1986 ( a film which begins with scenes of Sydney ) while theatre institutions like the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art nurtured the budding careers of actors Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett and elsewhere actors Nicole Kidman and Russel Crowe forged their early careers in the city.

Other Aussie ambassadors include Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman, Phillip Noyce, Heath Ledger, Eric Bana, Anthony LaPaglia, Gillian Armstrong, Simon Baker, Toni Collette, Deborra Lee Furness, Melissa George, Scott Hicks, Barry Humphries, Julian McMahon, Jacqueline McKenzie, Kylie Minogue, Radha Mitchell, Poppy Montgomery, Olivia Newton-John, Frances O ' Connor, Miranda Otto, Guy Pearce, Fred Schepisi, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham and Sarah Wynter.

* Mercury ( Australian TV series ), featuring Geoffrey Rush in an early lead role

High profile present and past residents Geoffrey Rush and Barry Humphries supported the protest action, but the development was finally approved in 2009.

Martin starred alongside Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon in the Broadway revival of Exit the King which played at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from March 7 to June 14, 2009.

Ambrose recently returned to Broadway in Exit the King ( by Eugene Ionesco ) at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway, opposite Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon.

* 2009: Geoffrey Rush – Exit the King as King Berenger

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

The official scapegoat for the disaster was Geoffrey de Rancon, who had made the decision to continue, and it was suggested that he be hanged ( a suggestion which the King ignored ).

From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.

Geoffrey provides prehistoric London with a rich array of legendary kings, such as King Lud ( see also Lludd, from Welsh Mythology ) who, he claims, renamed the town CaerLudein, from which London was derived, and was buried at Ludgate.

Henry the Young King was allowed to travel widely in Europe with his own household of knights, Richard was given Aquitaine back, and Geoffrey was allowed to return to Brittany ; only Eleanor was imprisoned for her role in the revolt.

13th-century depiction of Henry II of England | Henry II and John's siblings: ( l to r ) William IX, Count of Poitiers | William, Henry the Young King | Henry, Richard I of England | Richard, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | Geoffrey, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile | Eleanor, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Joan and John

With his primary heir dead, Henry rearranged the plans for the succession: Richard was to be made King of England, albeit without any actual power until the death of his father ; Geoffrey would retain Brittany ; and John would now become the Duke of Aquitaine in place of Richard.

Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902

* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.

Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt ( Merlinus Caledonensis ), a North Brythonic prophet and madman with no connection to King Arthur, with tales of the Romano-British war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus to form the composite figure he called Merlin Ambrosius ().

With Henry the Young King and Geoffrey of Brittany he maintained friendship until their deaths.

Arms of King Richard I adopted towards the end of his reign, a version of the lion emblems or recognizance used on the shield of his grandfather Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou ( d. 1151 ), which became fixed during his reign as the Royal Arms of England: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or

Henry II planned to divide his and his wife's territories between their sons, of which there were three at the time ; Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine from his mother and become Count of Poitiers, and Geoffrey would get Brittany through marriage alliance with Constance, the heiress to the region.

Henry the Young King abandoned his father and left for the French court seeking the protection of Louis VII ; he was soon followed by his younger brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, while the 5-year-old John remained with Henry II.

The terms the three brothers accepted were less generous than those they had been offered earlier in the conflict ( when Richard was offered four castles in Aquitaine and half of the income from the duchy ) and Richard was given control of two castles in Poitou and half the income of Aquitaine ; Henry the Young King was given two castles in Normandy ; and Geoffrey was permitted half of Brittany.

Finally, in 1183 Henry the Young King and Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany invaded Aquitaine in an attempt to subdue Richard.

Geoffrey and Matilda's son, the future King Henry II, mounted a small mercenary invasion of England in 1147 but the expedition failed, not least because Henry lacked the funds to pay his men.

To address the growing power of the Count of Anjou, Geoffrey Martel, William joined with King Henry in a campaign against him, the last known cooperation between the two.

On the death of Hugh of Maine, Geoffrey Martel occupied Maine in a move contested by William and King Henry ; eventually they succeeded in driving Geoffrey from the county, and in the process, William was able to secure the Bellême family strongholds at Alençon and Domfort for himself.

* Traditional date that Lud became King of Britain, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

* December 2 – Geoffrey le Scrope, Chief Justice of King Edward III of England

Eleanor was the daughter of Duke Geoffrey II of Brittany, elder brother of King John, which meant that she had a better claim to the English throne than John and Henry according to Primogeniture, thus should have been queen regnant in 1203.