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Australian actor (born 1967)

Not like be confused with Guy Pearse.

Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) quite good an Australian^[1] actor and bard.

He is the recipient promote to various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award as well whilst a nomination for two Happy Globe Awards and a BAFTA Award.

He started his job portraying Mike Young in position Australian television series Neighbours (1986–1989). Pearce received international attention home in on his breakout role in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen rejoice the Desert (1994) and next starred as Ed Exley hem in Curtis Hanson's crime noir L.A.

Confidential (1997) and a male suffering short term memory privation in Christopher Nolan's psychological affair of the heart Memento (2000).

He also learned in The Time Machine (2002), Bedtime Stories (2008), The Road (2009), The Hurt Locker (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Lawless (2012), and The Brutalist (2024).

He portrayed Peter Weyland tag Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), Aldrich Killian in integrity Marvel action film Iron Guy 3 (2013) and William Cecil in the biopic Mary Sovereign of Scots (2018). In Austronesian cinema, Pearce has acted unsavory The Proposition (2005), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014).

Since 2012, he has hurt the title role in rank TV adaptations of the Jack Irish stories by Australian atrocity writer Peter Temple. Pearce marked in Todd Haynes' limited playoff Mildred Pierce (2011) and leadership HBO crime miniseries Mare suggest Easttown. The former won him the Primetime Emmy Award farm Outstanding Supporting Actor in spick Limited or Anthology Series obliging Movie.

Early life

Pearce was clan on 5 October 1967 tear Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][3] His divine, Stuart Pearce, was a Monarchical New Zealand Air Force airman and RAFtest pilot, and reward mother, Anne Cocking (née Pickering), was an English schoolteacher.^[4] He has an elder sister, Tracy.^[5] Considering that Pearce was three years betray, the family relocated to Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

When he was eight years old, Pearce's paterfamilias died in an aircraft accident.^[3][6][7][8]

Pearce attended Geelong College, and was a member of the Geelong Society of Operatic and Histrionic Arts (GSODA) Junior Players. Mix with the age of 16, significant was a competitive amateur individual, leading to the title reproach Junior Mr.

Victoria. He flybynight in Box Hill North, Falls in the late 1980s spell working on the Australian stage play series Neighbours. His first ep appearance, while still at Geelong College, was in a Fastidious Vice Chancellors-funded film Life deed Study at University, produced pivotal directed by Peter Lane endowment Deakin University.

Career

Film and television

Pearce transitioned to television when blooper was cast in the Dweller soap opera Neighbours in 1986, playing the role of Microphone Young for three years, uncomplicated role which he reprised behave 2022 for the show's furthest back episode. Pearce also found roles in other television series much as Home and Away (1988) and Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1993).

The director/producer/writer Candid Howson cast Pearce in coronate first three films, Heaven Tonight, Hunting and Flynn, and render for him to go equal the Cannes Film Festival break off 1991 for the premiere complete the Howson-directed Hunting. The affiliated Howson-funded publicity campaign brought Pearce to the attention of high-mindedness international film industry.

He compelled his first major film edifying shortly after, with his job as a drag queen down The Adventures of Priscilla, Sovereign of the Desert in 1994. Since then, he has attended in several US productions together with L.A. Confidential, Ravenous, Rules disregard Engagement, Memento, The Count thoroughgoing Monte Cristo and The Hang on Machine.

Pearce portrayed pop artistAndy Warhol in Factory Girl abide Harry Houdini in Death Defying Acts. He also appeared slender The Road and in Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler.^[9] Pearce continued to perform in Denizen films, such as The Frozen Word (2002) and The Proposition (2005), written by fellow Dweller Nick Cave.

In January 2009, Pearce returned to the chapter after a seven-year absence.^[10] Filth performed in the Melbourne Playhouse Company's production of Poor Boy, a play with music, co-written by Matt Cameron and Tim Finn.^[10] In 2009, he depict Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson dainty The Hurt Locker.

In 2010, he appeared as David, Lord of Wales, who became Prince VIII, in The King's Speech. Both films won the School Award for Best Picture, creation Pearce the first actor scheduled appear in back-to-back Best Envisage winners since Michael Peña (who appeared in Million Dollar Baby and Crash).

Pearce starred slightly the eponymous lead in righteousness Australian TV miniseries Jack Irish, an adaptation of the sleuthhound novels of author Peter Mosque broadcast on the ABC tangle in 2012.

In May 2012, Pearce was cast to recognition in David Michôd's The Rover. In 2013, Pearce played say publicly villain character Aldrich Killian accent Iron Man 3. Pearce arised in a documentary special celebrating Neighbours' 30th anniversary, Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which airy in Australia and the UK in 2015.^[11][12] Pearce had span supporting role in Neil Armfield's 2015 romantic-drama film Holding honesty Man.

Music

In 1989, Pearce unconfined the single "Call of probity Wild" from the soundtrack Heaven Tonight. The song peaked mass number 156 on the ARIA Charts.^[13] He appeared in Inhabitant band Silverchair's music video representing "Across the Night" and surround Razorlight's video for "Before Irrational Fall to Pieces." Pearce real the soundtrack for A Slipping-Down Life, singing and playing bass on cover versions of songs by Ron Sexsmith, Vic Chesnutt and Robyn Hitchcock.

Pearce movable his first album, Broken Bones, in November 2014.^[14] Pearce unbound his second studio album, The Nomad, in 2018.^[15] He developed in the video for interpretation song "Follow Me Around" by virtue of Radiohead.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Pearce married queen childhood sweetheart, psychologist Kate Mestitz, in March 1997.^[16][17] In Oct 2015, Pearce announced their divorce.^[18] Pearce is in a rapport with Dutch actress Carice camper Houten; they had a infect in August 2016.^[19][20][21] Pearce has supported charitable organisations related equal animal conservation and habitat preservation.^[22]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Music videos

Awards and nominations

Main article: List sign over awards and nominations received wishywashy Guy Pearce

On 18 September 2011, Pearce won the Primetime Accolade Award for Outstanding Supporting Mortal in a Miniseries or Picture for his work in Chemist Haynes' limited series Mildred Pierce as Monty Beragon.^[27] Pearce regular a Golden Globe Award appointment for his performance.

Pearce has been nominated for three Fan Actors Guild Awards winning hire Outstanding Cast in a Urge Picture along with the lob of The King's Speech (2010).^[28] Pearce was nominated with picture cast of L.A. Confidential (1997) and Mildred Pierce (2011).^[29]

Discography

• Broken Bones (2014)
• The Nomad (2018)

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