Editing Geoffrey Rush (section)

== Style and influences == 
Known for his deep voice and expressive face has acted in extensive roles in film, theater and television. He is one of the few people to have won the "Triple Crown" ([[Emmy Award]], [[Tony Award]] and [[Academy Award]]).<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/geoffrey-rush-kings-speech|title= Geoffrey Rush to the Rescue|website= [[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|date= 22 November 2010|accessdate= March 8, 2025}}</ref> Throughout Rush's career he has been known to play eccentric off-beat characters. He credits the traditional theater as well as the movements of [[Jacques Lecoq]] and European actor-based traditions which appealed to him.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.abc.net.au/education/one-plus-one-geoffrey-rush-behind-the-mask/13979102|title= One Plus One: Geoffrey Rush behind the mask|website= [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]|date= 19 July 2022|accessdate= March 8, 2025}}</ref> He has described the roles he's played as being, "the [[drunks]], the rogues, the ratbags, the idiots, and the [[wise fools]]."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoffrey-rush-wants-to-leave-you-speechless/|title= Geoffrey Rush Wants to Leave You Speechless|website= [[CBS News]]|date= 30 January 2011|accessdate= March 8, 2025}}</ref> ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' noted his memorable roles in period dramas.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.timeout.com/film/geoffrey-rush-on-the-kings-speech-interview|title= Geoffrey Rush on The King's Speech Interview|website= Time Out|accessdate= March 8, 2025}}</ref> Rush has stated, "Costume drama is a very difficult phrase for me. I want to be taken into the inner lives and the world and the political forces, the inner and outer worlds of the narrative with an immediacy that makes me not even think about the costumes."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://the-talks.com/interview/geoffrey-rush/|title= Geoffrey Rush: "Why have we become this way?"|website= The Talks|date= 18 October 2012|accessdate= March 8, 2025}}</ref>

Blanchett has cited Rush as an acting influence and mentor when they acted alongside each other in a 1993 production of [[David Mamet]]'s ''[[Oleanna (play)|Oleanna]]'' at the [[Sydney Theater Company]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/magazine/what-the-camera-sees-in-her.html|title= What the Camera Sees in Her|website= [[The New York Times]]|date= 9 November 2003|accessdate= March 8, 2025|last1= Merkin|first1= Daphne}}</ref> [[Toni Collette]] has said that she was influenced by Rush to become an actress after seeing him in the stage performance of ''[[Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol)#Adaptions|The Diary of a Madman]]'' in 1989.<ref name="Denton">{{cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s951646.htm | title = Toni Collette | last = Denton | first = Andrew |author-link = Andrew Denton | work = [[Enough Rope]] | date = 22 September 2003 | via = National Library of Australia | archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20100125102016/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s951646.htm | archive-date=25 January 2010 | access-date = 8 March 2025 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> [[John Lithgow]] described him as "one of the great actors".<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-lithgow-and-geoffrey-rush-talk-horror-in-the-rule-of-jenny-pen/|title= John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush talk horror in "The Rule of Jenny Pen"|website= [[CBS News]]|date= 2 March 2025|accessdate= March 8, 2025}}</ref> In 2018, upon winning the [[Screen Actors Guild Award]] as [[Winston Churchill]] for ''[[Darkest Hour (film)|Darkest Hour]]'', [[Gary Oldman]] praised Rush as a "giant of acting" along with [[Robert De Niro]], [[Morgan Freeman]], [[Richard Jenkins]], and [[Denzel Washington]].<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/VNlbpOXl6sU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20180123023332/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNlbpOXl6sU Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNlbpOXl6sU|title= Gary Oldman: Acceptance Speech – 24th Screen Actors Guild Award|date= 21 January 2018|via= [[YouTube]]|access-date= June 9, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://people.com/movies/sag-awards-2018-gary-oldman-male-actor-leading-role/|title= Gary Oldman Cries Accepting SAG Award: 'There Are Giants of Acting in This Room Tonight'|magazine= [[People (magazine)|People]]|first=Maria|last=Pasquini|date=January 21, 2018|access-date= June 9, 2020}}</ref>