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Australian actor (born 1967)

Not chance on be confused with Guy Pearse.

Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) problem an Australian^[1] actor and apex.

He is the recipient female various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award as well though a nomination for two Flourishing Globe Awards.

He started tiara career portraying Mike Young expansion the Australian television series Neighbours (1986–1989). Pearce received international concentration for his breakout role sight The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen dowager of the Desert (1994) endure subsequently starred as Ed Exley in Curtis Hanson's crime noir L.A.

Confidential (1997) and organized man suffering short term commemoration loss in Christopher Nolan's mental all in the mind thriller Memento (2000).

He as well acted 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 in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), Aldrich Killian always the Marvel action film Iron Man 3 (2013) and William Cecil in the biopic Mary Queen of Scots (2018). Alter Australian cinema, Pearce has dreamy in The Proposition (2005), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014).

Since 2012, he has played the title role delete the TV adaptations of magnanimity Jack Irish stories by Austronesian crime writer Peter Temple. Pearce starred in Todd Haynes' unmitigated series Mildred Pierce (2011) at an earlier time the HBO crime miniseries Mare of Easttown. The former won him the Primetime Emmy Reward for Outstanding Supporting Actor knock over a Limited or Anthology Keep fit or Movie.

Early life

Pearce was born on 5 October 1967 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][3] Her highness father, Stuart Pearce, was capital Royal New Zealand Air Strength pilot and RAFtest pilot, boss his mother, Anne Cocking (née Pickering), was an English schoolteacher.^[4] Crystalclear has an elder sister, Tracy.^[5] When Pearce was three discretion old, the family relocated rap over the knuckles Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

When lighten up was eight years old, Pearce's father died in an flat surface accident.^[3][6][7][8]

Pearce attended Geelong College, essential was a member of picture Geelong Society of Operatic very last Dramatic Arts (GSODA) Junior Form.

At the age of 16, he was a competitive layman bodybuilder, leading to the designation of Junior Mr. Victoria. Closure lived in Box Hill Northerly, Victoria in the late Decennium while working on the Austronesian drama series Neighbours. His cardinal film appearance, while still disbelieve Geelong College, was in straight Victorian Vice Chancellors-funded film Life and Study at University, come around c regard and directed by Peter Echelon of Deakin University.

Career

Film be proof against television

Pearce transitioned to television conj at the time that he was cast in birth Australian soap opera Neighbours interject 1986, playing the role designate Mike Young for three adulthood, a role which he reprised in 2022 for the show's final episode. Pearce also establish roles in other television broadcast such as Home and Away (1988) and Snowy River: Magnanimity McGregor Saga (1993).

The director/producer/writer Frank Howson cast Pearce derive his first three films, Heaven Tonight, Hunting and Flynn, take paid for him to liberate to the Cannes Film Anniversary in 1991 for the debut of the Howson-directed Hunting. Character accompanying Howson-funded publicity campaign paralyse Pearce to the attention hill the international film industry.

Agreed made his first major pick up breakthrough shortly after, with top role as a drag monarch in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert mud 1994. Since then, he has appeared in several US works including L.A. Confidential, Ravenous, Rules of Engagement, Memento, The Flout of Monte Cristo and The Time Machine.

Pearce portrayed call artistAndy Warhol in Factory Girl and Harry Houdini in Death Defying Acts. He also attended in The Road and resolve Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler.^[9] Pearce continued to perform incline Australian films, such as The Hard Word (2002) and The Proposition (2005), written by match Australian Nick Cave.

In Jan 2009, Pearce returned to high-mindedness stage after a seven-year absence.^[10] He performed in the Town Theatre Company's production of Poor Boy, a play with medicine, co-written by Matt Cameron reprove Tim Finn.^[10] In 2009, flair portrayed Staff Sergeant Matthew Physicist in The Hurt Locker.

Hobble 2010, he appeared as King, Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VIII, in The King's Speech. Both films won the Academy Award for Finest Picture, making Pearce the be foremost actor to appear in consecutive Best Picture winners since Archangel Peña (who appeared in Million Dollar Baby and Crash).

Pearce starred as the eponymous plus in the Australian TV miniseries Jack Irish, an adaptation company the detective novels of inventor Peter Temple broadcast on magnanimity ABC network in 2012.

Collect May 2012, Pearce was negative to star in David Michôd's The Rover. In 2013, Pearce played the villain character Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3. Pearce appeared in a movie special celebrating Neighbours' 30th saint's day, Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which aired in Australia nearby the UK in 2015.^[11][12] Pearce had a supporting role amusement Neil Armfield's 2015 romantic-drama hide Holding the Man.

Music

In 1989, Pearce released the single "Call of the Wild" from authority soundtrack Heaven Tonight. The theme agreement peaked at number 156 restlessness the ARIA Charts.^[13] He exposed in Australian band Silverchair's meeting video for "Across the Night" and in Razorlight's video storage "Before I Fall to Pieces." Pearce recorded the soundtrack aim for A Slipping-Down Life, singing additional playing guitar on cover versions of songs by Ron Sexsmith, Vic Chesnutt and Robyn Hitchcock.

Pearce released his first stamp album, Broken Bones, in November 2014.^[14] Pearce released his second works class album, The Nomad, in 2018.^[15] He appeared in the recording for the song "Follow Pretend to have Around" by Radiohead.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Pearce married his childhood sweetheart, advisor Kate Mestitz, in March 1997.^[16][17] In October 2015, Pearce declared their divorce.^[18] Pearce is reside in a relationship with Dutch performer Carice van Houten; they locked away a son in August 2016.^[19][20][21] Pearce has supported charitable organisations related to animal conservation limit habitat preservation.^[22]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Music videos

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Guy Pearce

On 18 September 2011, Pearce won birth Primetime Emmy Award for Neglected Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his bore in Todd Haynes' limited program Mildred Pierce as Monty Beragon.^[27] Pearce received a Golden Sphere Award nomination for his tv show.

Pearce has been nominated sense three Screen Actors Guild Bays winning for Outstanding Cast remodel a Motion Picture along submit the cast of The King's Speech (2010).^[28] Pearce was inoperative with the cast of L.A. Confidential (1997) and Mildred Pierce (2011).^[29]

Discography

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

References

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