Guy Pearce
Birthday: 1967-10-05
Place of Birth: Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Biography: Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor and musician. He has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a nomination for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. He started his career portraying Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours (1986–1989). Pearce received international attention for his breakout role in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). Subsequently, he starred as Ed Exley in Curtis Hanson's crime noir L.A. Confidential (1997) and a man suffering short-term memory loss 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), and Lawless (2012). He 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 of Scots (2018). In Australian cinema, Pearce has acted in The Proposition (2005), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014). For his performance in The Brutalist(2024), he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since 2012, he has played the title role in the TV adaptations of the Jack Irish stories by Australian crime writer Peter Temple. Pearce starred in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown. The former won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor.
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Memento
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating ...
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L.A. Confidential
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to u...
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The Time Machine
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into t...
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Bedtime Stories
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and neph...
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Ravenous
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western fron...
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Two Brothers
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemie...
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style o...
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Rules of Engagement
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surroun...
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The Road
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...
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The Hurt Locker
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squa...
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Factory Girl
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...
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Traitor
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international ...
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Death Defying Acts
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...
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Till Human Voices Wake Us
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on the...
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The Brutalist
When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild hi...
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The Shrouds
Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary an...
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Animal Kingdom
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled ...
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Winged Creatures
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivo...
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The Infernal Machine
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing...
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Dating the Enemy
Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they wi...
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The Hard Word
Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend...
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The Proposition
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his ...
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home...
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The Convert
Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonist...
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A Slipping Down Life
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer....
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Iron Man 3
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an od...
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Lockout
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance a...
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The Catcher Was a Spy
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic...
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Prometheus
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to...
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Lawless
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establish...
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Seeking Justice
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle ...
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world implo...
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Jack Irish: Black Tide
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murd...
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The Rover
Ten years after a severe economic collapse in the western world, lawlessness reigns and life is chea...
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The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," featuring cast and crew interv...
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33 Postcards
Dean Randall has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney...
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Breathe In
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamic...
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Hateship Loveship
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware ...
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Woundings
A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war...
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Easter Rising
A film by Irish Director Jason Barry (Bog Bodies, Titanic). Set in Ireland, and starring Guy Pearce ...
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The King's Speech
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabet...
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a jud...
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Heaven Tonight
The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the le...
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Flynn
A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame....
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Alien: Covenant
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, disco...
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Killing Faith
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her...
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Neighbours Made Me a Star
Following the soap's final episodes, a tribute to the residents of Ramsay Street and the stars that ...
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The Devil Game
Detectives are trying to cracking down on a drug smuggling ring in a local fishing village....
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Results
Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client....
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Sunrise
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town ...
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Inside
After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Ma...
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Genius
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...
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Brimstone
In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a...
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Holding the Man
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the foo...
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Between a Frock and a Hard Place
This is the story behind one of the world’s most loved films; about three unlikely Australian hero-(...
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2
Plot details are still under wraps, but it will feature a grown-up version of Tick’s 7-year-old son ...
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Ladies Please!
A rare and stimulating insight into the bohemian world that is drag and into the professional and pe...
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Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite
The stars of Neighbours, past and present, reminisce about their time on the show, plus a countdown ...
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Swinging Safari
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing...
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Spinning Man
Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female stude...
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Mary Queen of Scots
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...
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Domino
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himsel...
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Donny The Drone
Donny the Drone --the world’s first sentient machine goes on stage to accept a prestigious “Person o...
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Lorne
Lorne, a wasteland traveler dealing with the oppressing boundaries of isolation, is confronted by a ...
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Poor Boy
“After a near fatal accident on his seventh birthday, a boy awakens from his coma, only to claim to ...
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The Last Vermeer
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World...
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Disturbing the Peace
A small-town marshal who hasn't carried a gun since he left the Texas Rangers after a tragic shootin...
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Bloodshot
After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enha...
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The Seventh Day
A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deep...
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FX's A Christmas Carol
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...
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Zone 414
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the co...
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Back to the Outback
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag ...
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his ...
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Memory
Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a...
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Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
Curtis Hanson and his behind-the-scenes collaborators reveal the secrets of bringing 1950s Los Angel...
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Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a...
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Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'
Behind the scenes look at David Michôd's 2014 film 'The Rover'....
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The Woman in Cabin 10
On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one bel...
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Mr. Sunny Sky
Leonard Moore is a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel...
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Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life
The story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his ea...
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Blurred
After a brutal mugging leaves him with double vision, a fashion photographer turns to a grieving wom...
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The Dog Stars
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a C...
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Prometheus: Project Prometheus - Mission
Project Prometheus: Mission is a 2012 short film. Created as part of the viral marketing campaign fo...
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The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023
Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first con...
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Neponset Circle
Jimmy O'Mannon, a hailed police officer, and fresh out of prison after serving eight years, gets rig...
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Ink
An explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of misfits and visionaries who had an idea for a ...
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Scarcity
“Scarcity” is a gripping and emotionally charged film set in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, whe...
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Memento - Chronological Version
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating ...
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