Jorge Porcel

He has also become a newborn Christian. He also played actor Peter Sellers in the TV movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. He is currently touring Latin America to promote an autobiography, visiting such places as Puerto Rico and some other countries in that endeavor. Rush also starred in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Barbossa. After he retired from filming movies in Argentina, he moved to Miami, where he starred in a show named A la cama con Porcel (To Bed with Porcel), and was given a cameo in Hollywood production Carlito's Way. Rush's career continues at an amazingly fast pace, with nine films released from 2001 through 2003. Porcel had many TV hit shows as well, including Operación Ja Ja (both the 1960's original and the 1980's remake) and Polémica en el Bar (Debate at the café), where he had celebrated moments of comedy with fellow comedian Juan Carlos Altavista. Most of these TV efforts were linked to the Sofovich brothers. In 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played the Marquis de Sade.

Most of these movies were directed by Gerardo Sofovich or his brother Hugo. In 1998 he appeared in three major films -- Les Misérables, in which he played Inspector Javert; Elizabeth, in which he played the suspicious Sir Francis Walsingham; and Shakespeare in Love in which he played the acting company manager who remained calm in the midst of chaos (and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor). These movies are considered to be the pinnacle of Argentina's sexploitation movie genre. From that point on, his career skyrocketed. Conservative Argentine authorities rated these movies as PM-18 (age 18 and above), except for some movies planned for family audiences, which had "tamer" content. In 1996, he starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Many of Porcel and Olmedo's movies in the 1980's were adult-oriented comedies. His next film was in Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year.

(Little Rambo and Big Rambo: First Mission). Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. Among the movies they did together was 1986's Rambito Y Rambon: Primera Mision. While in college, he roomed with Mel Gibson. Many of these 48 movies were collaborations with Olmedo. He also has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland. Porcel made a total of 48 movies, starting with 1962's Disloque en Mar del Plata, and ending with El Profesor Punk (1988). Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, he began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane.

Porcel is often considered, along with Alberto Olmedo, one of Argentina's greatest comic actors of the twentieth century. Geoffrey Rush (born July 6, 1951) is an Australian actor. He is nicknamed El Gordo De America (The Americas' Fat Guy). Jorge Raúl Porcel De Peralta (born September 7, 1936) is a comedy actor from Argentina.