Geoffrey Rush, the Academy award-winning actor, on Monday faced fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour by an actress, amid his defamation battle with an Australian newspaper over separate claims.

Australian actress Yael Stone, who stars in Netflix hit "Orange is the New Black", said that Rush had danced naked in front of her in their dressing room, when she starred opposite him in the theatre production "The Diary of a Madman" in 2010 and 2011.

The 33-year-old said he used a mirror to watch her as she showered.

"I believe that it was meant with a playful intention, but the effect was that I felt there was nowhere for me to feel safe and unobserved," Stone told The New York Times.

She also accused him of sending her erotic text messages.

"Gradually the text messages became more sexual in nature, but always encased in this very highfalutin intellectual language," she told the newspaper.

“I’m embarrassed by the ways I participated. I certainly wouldn’t engage as the person I am now in the way I did when I was 25.”