Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 139 of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards

podcast presented by the iconic Empire Hotel on New York's Upper West Side.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the greatest Australian actors of all time.

An Oscar winner for 1996's Shine, an Emmy winner for 2004's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,

and a Tony winner for 2009's Exit the King, the great Jeffrey Rush.

Rush, who is now 65, has had a most unusual career.

He worked in the Australian theater as a character

actor almost entirely under the radar until he was well into his 40s,

at which point he was offered the starring role in the Tiny Aussie Indie

Shine, Scott Hicks Bio-Pick of the schizophrenic pianist David Helftgot.

Largely because of his performance, the film became an international sensation, and he took

home not only an Oscar, but also Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA Critics Choice, New York

Film Critics Circle, and LA Film Critics Association awards, cementing his reputation

as an actor of the first order.

Over the ensuing years, he garnered three more Oscar nominations.

For his supporting performance in the Best Picture Oscar winner for 1998, Shakespeare

in Love, for his leading performance in 2000's Quills, and for his supporting performance in the

Best Picture Oscar winner for 2010, the King's Speech.

He has also played the key supporting part of Barbosa in the Pirates of the Caribbean

film franchise which has encompassed four of the biggest blockbusters of all time

with a fifth on the way. His latest project Genius is in some ways unlike any

he has undertaken before.

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