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Geoffrey Rush a BAFTA and nominations for the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor. Rush returned as Captain Hector Barbossa in "", starring Johnny Depp, in 2011. Rush is also preparing for a film version of "The Drowsy Chaperone", an award-winning stage musical. In addition, he voiced the alien Tomar-Re in the film adaptation of the "Green Lantern" comic book series. In 2011, Rush made a cameo in a commercial, "The Potato Peeler", for the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), playing a Polish farmer. He spoke his lines in Polish for the part. In August 2011, Rush was