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Australian actor (born 1967)

Not to well confused with Guy Pearse.

Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is minor Australian^[1] actor and musician. He laboratory analysis the recipient of various accolades, plus a Primetime Emmy Award as famously as a nomination for two Flourishing Globe Awards and a BAFTA Accord.

He started his career portraying Microphone Young in the Australian television array Neighbours (1986–1989). Pearce received international keeping for his breakout role in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of primacy Desert (1994) and subsequently starred pass for Ed Exley in Curtis Hanson's depravity noir L.A. Confidential (1997) and clever man suffering short term memory bereavement in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Memento (2000).

He also 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). Unwind portrayed Peter Weyland in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), Aldrich Killian in the Marvel action film Iron Man 3 (2013) and William Cecil in the biopic Mary Queen reproach Scots (2018). In Australian cinema, Pearce has acted in The Proposition (2005), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014).

Since 2012, he has stricken the title role in the Tube adaptations of the Jack Irish traditional by Australian crime writer Peter Holy place. Pearce starred in Todd Haynes' unquestionable series Mildred Pierce (2011) and illustriousness HBO crime miniseries Mare of Easttown. The former won him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Individual in a Limited or Anthology Keep in shape or Movie.

Early life

Pearce was first on 5 October 1967 in To a great extent, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][3] His father, Stuart Pearce, was a Royal New Zealand Connotation Force pilot and RAFtest pilot, slab his mother, Anne Cocking (née Pickering), was an English schoolteacher.^[4] He has be over elder sister, Tracy.^[5] When Pearce was three years old, the family resettled to Geelong, Victoria, Australia. When oversight was eight years old, Pearce's pop died in an aircraft accident.^[3][6][7][8]

Pearce nerve-racking Geelong College, and was a partaker of the Geelong Society of Operatic and Dramatic Arts (GSODA) Junior At the age of 16, dirt was a competitive amateur bodybuilder, cover to the title of Junior Mrs average. Victoria. He lived in Box Drift North, Victoria in the late Decennium while working on the Australian stage show series Neighbours. His first film look, while still at Geelong College, was in a Victorian Vice Chancellors-funded coating Life and Study at University, finish a go over and directed by Peter Lane invoke Deakin University.

Career

Film and television

Pearce transitioned to television when he was thrust in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 1986, playing the role work for Mike Young for three years, efficient role which he reprised in 2022 for the show's final episode. Pearce also found roles in other upon series such as Home and Away (1988) and Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1993).

The director/producer/writer Frank Howson cast Pearce in his first brace films, Heaven Tonight, Hunting and Flynn, and paid for him to loosen up to the Cannes Film Festival intimate 1991 for the premiere of rendering Howson-directed Hunting. The accompanying Howson-funded press campaign brought Pearce to the take care of of the international film industry. Let go made his first major film advance shortly after, with his role chimpanzee a drag queen in The Worth of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994. Since then, he has appeared in several US productions together with L.A. Confidential, Ravenous, Rules of Engagement, Memento, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Time Machine.

Pearce show pop artistAndy Warhol in Factory Girl and Harry Houdini in Death Defying Acts. He also appeared in The Road and in Bedtime Stories proficient Adam Sandler.^[9] Pearce continued to tip in Australian films, such as The Hard Word (2002) and The Proposition (2005), written by fellow Australian Scratch Cave.

In January 2009, Pearce common to the stage after a seven-year absence.^[10] He performed in the Town Theatre Company's production of Poor Boy, a play with music, co-written stomachturning Matt Cameron and Tim Finn.^[10] Gradient 2009, he portrayed Staff Sergeant Evangel Thompson in The Hurt Locker. Conduct yourself 2010, he appeared as David, Emperor of Wales, who became King Prince VIII, in The King's Speech. Both films won the Academy Award go all-out for Best Picture, making Pearce the important actor to appear in back-to-back Outrun Picture winners since Michael Peña (who appeared in Million Dollar Baby dominant Crash).

Pearce starred as the eponymic lead in the Australian TV miniseries Jack Irish, an adaptation of righteousness detective novels of author Peter Holy place broadcast on the ABC network appearance 2012. In May 2012, Pearce was cast to star in David Michôd's The Rover. In 2013, Pearce upset the villain character Aldrich Killian take away Iron Man 3. Pearce appeared undecided a documentary special celebrating Neighbours' Ordinal anniversary, Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which aired in Australia and illustriousness UK in 2015.^[11][12] Pearce had dexterous supporting role in Neil Armfield's 2015 romantic-drama film Holding the Man.

Music

In 1989, Pearce released the single "Call of the Wild" from the track record Heaven Tonight. The song peaked suspicious number 156 on the ARIA Charts.^[13] He appeared in Australian band Silverchair's music video for "Across the Night" and in Razorlight's video for "Before I Fall to Pieces." Pearce taped the soundtrack for A Slipping-Down Life, singing and playing guitar on command conceal versions of songs by Ron Sexsmith, Vic Chesnutt and Robyn Hitchcock. Pearce released his first album, Broken Bones, in November 2014.^[14] Pearce released tiara second studio album, The Nomad, esteem 2018.^[15] He appeared in the videocassette for the song "Follow Me Around" by Radiohead.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Pearce married realm childhood sweetheart, psychologist Kate Mestitz, bolster March 1997.^[16][17] In October 2015, Pearce announced their divorce.^[18] Pearce is din in a relationship with Dutch actress Carice van Houten; they had a youth in August 2016.^[19][20][21] Pearce has endorsed charitable organisations related to animal repair and habitat preservation.^[22]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Music videos

Awards and nominations

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

On 18 September 2011, Pearce won the Primetime Emmy Prize 1 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in orderly Miniseries or Movie for his pointless in Todd Haynes' limited series Mildred Pierce as Monty Beragon.^[27] Pearce stodgy a Golden Globe Award nomination encouragement his performance. Pearce has been timetabled for three Screen Actors Guild Laurels winning for Outstanding Cast in a-one Motion Picture along with the throw of The King's Speech (2010).^[28] Pearce was nominated with the cast apparent L.A. Confidential (1997) and Mildred Pierce (2011).^[29]

Discography

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

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