Shine

…dramatized in the 1996 film Shine, starring Geoffrey Rush, who won an Oscar for his performance.

…David Helfgott in the film Shine (1996), a role for which he won an Academy Award for best actor. Rush then turned in nuanced interpretations of Inspector Javert in Les Misérables (1998) and spy master Sir Francis Walsingham in Elizabeth (1998); he reprised the latter role in the 2007 sequel.…