What roll did Geoffrey Rush win a Tony Award for?”
The American Theatre Wing’s 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony”® Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7, 2009 and broadcast on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com. Nominations in 27 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing’s 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony”® Awards were announced on May 5th by Tony Award Winners Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
GEOFFREY Rush has joined acting’s most exclusive club, joining Al Pacino, Anne Bancroft and Ingrid Bergman in winning the Holy Trinity of the profession – Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards. The 57-year-old Australian added the final piece, the Tony, on Sunday night at Broadway’s night of nights for his performance as a 400-year-old dying monarch in Exit the King, a play Rush and Australian director Neil Armfield adapted from playwright Eugene Ionesco’s original work. Rush and Armfield first performed the play in Sydney and Melbourne two years ago.
Australian actor Geoffrey Rush won a Tony Award for his performance in the play ‘Exit the King’ on Broadway, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. Rush, 57, won the award for the best performance by a leading actor in a play, the ABC said. He has won an Oscar, two Golden Globes and three Screen Actors Guild awards, it said.
