William Petersen

Petersen, who has one child from a previous marriage, married longtime girlfriend Gina Cirone in June of 2003. He also played actor Peter Sellers in the TV movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. From 2000 to the present, Petersen has starred as Gil Grissom in the successful CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Rush also starred in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Barbossa. Hathaway is a candidate for Vice President following the death of the incumbent. Rush's career continues at an amazingly fast pace, with nine films released from 2001 through 2003. In the 2000 release The Contender, Petersen played the role of Governor Jack Hathway. In 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played the Marquis de Sade.

Instead, he worked on the 1987 made for TV movie Long Gone. 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). In a move perhaps indicative of his career choices, Petersen is alleged to have passed on a part in Oliver Stone's Platoon, as it would have kept him away from his family. From that point on, his career skyrocketed. His film career began with a small part in the 1981 film Thief, and in 1986 he starred as Will Graham in Manhunter (later to be remade as Red Dragon). In 1996, he starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. After attending Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho and Idaho State University, the latter on a football scholarship, Petersen became a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company. His next film was in Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year.

William Petersen, an American actor, was born on February 21, 1953, in Evanston, Illinois. Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. While in college, he roomed with Mel Gibson. He also has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, he began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane.

Geoffrey Rush (born July 6, 1951) is an Australian actor.