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Guy Pearce
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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 Aw…
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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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Movie Rupert Murdoch
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2026
The Dog Stars
Movie Pops
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2025
The Woman in Cabin 10
Movie Richard Bullmer
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2025
Killing Faith
Movie Bender
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2025
Together for Palestine
Movie Self
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2025
Scarcity
Movie Voice
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2025
The Shrouds
Movie Maury Entrekin
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2025
Inside
Movie Warren Murfett
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2024
The Brutalist
Movie Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr
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2024
The Convert
Movie Thomas Munro
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2024
Sunrise
Movie Reynolds
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2023
The Clearing
TV show Dr. Bryce Latham
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2022
A Spy Among Friends
TV show Kim Philby
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2022
The Infernal Machine
Movie Bruce Cogburn
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2022
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
TV show Self
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2022
Neighbours Made Me a Star
Movie Self
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2022
Memory
Movie Vincent Serra
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2021
Back to the Outback
Movie Frank (voice)
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2021
Zone 414
Movie David Carmichael
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2021
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
Movie Thomas Clay
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2021
Mare of Easttown
TV show Richard Ryan
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2021
The Seventh Day
Movie Father Peter
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2020
Bloodshot
Movie Dr. Emil Harting
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2020
Disturbing the Peace: A Small Town Standoff
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Disturbing the Peace
Movie Jim Dillon
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2019
A Christmas Carol
TV show Ebenezer Scrooge
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2019
FX's A Christmas Carol
Movie Ebenezer Scrooge
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2019
The Last Vermeer
Movie Han van Meegeren
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2019
Domino
Movie Joe Martin
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2018
Mary Queen of Scots
Movie William Cecil
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2018
The Innocents
TV show Halvorson
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2018
The Catcher Was a Spy
Movie Robert Furman
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2018
Spinning Man
Movie Evan Birch
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2018
Swinging Safari
Movie Keith Hall
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2017
Donny The Drone
Movie Donny (voice)
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2017
Alien: Covenant
Movie Peter Weyland (uncredited)
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2017
When We Rise
TV show Cleve Jones
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2016
Genius
Movie F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2016
Brimstone
Movie The Reverend
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2016
Jack Irish
TV show Jack Irish
