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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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2025 The Woman in Cabin 10 as Richard Bullmer

2025 The Dog Stars

2025 Poor Boy as Danny Director

2025 Scott Matthews - Wait in the Car. as Robert

2025 Killing Faith as Bender

2025 Blurred

2025 Untitled Priscilla, Queen of the Desert sequel as Adam Whitely / Felicia Jollygoodfellow

2025 Mr. Sunny Sky as Leonard Moore

2025 The Shrouds as Maury

2025 Inside as Warren Murfett

2024 The Brutalist as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr

2024 The Convert as Thomas Munro

2024 Sunrise as Reynolds

2022 The Infernal Machine as Bruce Cogburn

2022 Neighbours Made Me a Star as Self

2022 Memory as Vincent Serra

2021 Back to the Outback as Frank (voice)

2021 Zone 414 as David Carmichael

2021 Tom Clancy's Without Remorse as Thomas Clay

2021 The Seventh Day as Father Peter Executive Producer

2020 Bloodshot as Dr. Emil Harting

2020 Disturbing the Peace: A Small Town Standoff as Self (archive footage)

2020 Disturbing the Peace as Jim Dillon

2019 FX's A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge

2019 The Last Vermeer as Han van Meegeren

2019 Domino as Joe Martin

2018 Mary Queen of Scots as William Cecil

2018 The Catcher Was a Spy as Robert Furman

2018 Spinning Man as Evan Birch

2018 Swinging Safari as Keith Hall

2017 Donny The Drone as Donny (voice)

2017 Alien: Covenant as Peter Weyland (uncredited)

2016 Genius as F. Scott Fitzgerald

2016 Brimstone as The Reverend

2016 Lorne as Lorne

2015 Holding the Man as Dick Conigrave

2015 Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life as Self

2015 Equals as Jonas

2015 Between a Frock and a Hard Place as Self

2015 Results as Trevor

2015 Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite as Self

2014 Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover' as Self

2014 The Rover as Eric

2014 Jack Irish: Dead Point as Jack Irish

2014 Hateship Loveship as Ken

2013 Iron Man 3 as Aldrich Killian

2013 Breathe In as Keith Reynolds

2012 Jack Irish: Black Tide as Jack Irish

2012 Jack Irish: Bad Debts as Jack Irish

2012 The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus as Self

2012 Lawless as Charlie Rakes

2012 Prometheus as Peter Weyland

2012 Project Prometheus: Mission as Peter Weyland

2012 Lockout as Snow

2012 Peter Weyland at TED2023 as Peter Weyland

2011 Seeking Justice as Simon

2011 33 Postcards as Dean Randall

2010 The King's Speech as King Edward VIII

2010 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark as Alex Hirst

2010 Animal Kingdom as Nathan Leckie

2009 The Road as Veteran

2009 Winged Creatures as Dr Bruce Laraby

2009 In Her Skin as Mr. Barber

2008 Bedtime Stories as Kendall

2008 The Hurt Locker as Sergeant Matt Thompson

2008 Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' as Self

2008 Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' as Self

2008 Traitor as Roy Clayton

2007 Death Defying Acts as Harry Houdini

2006 Factory Girl as Andy Warhol

2006 First Snow as Jimmy Starks

2005 The Proposition as Charlie Burns

2004 Two Brothers as Aidan McRory

2002 Till Human Voices Wake Us as Dr. Sam Franks

2002 The Hard Word as Dale

2002 The Time Machine as Alexander Hartdegen

2002 The Count of Monte Cristo as Fernand Mondego

2000 Memento as Leonard

2000 Rules of Engagement as Maj. Mark Biggs

1999 Ravenous as Boyd

1999 A Slipping Down Life as Drumstrings Casey

1998 Woundings as Jimmy Compton

1997 L.A. Confidential as Edmund 'Ed' Exley

1997 The Devil Game

1996 Dating the Enemy as Brett

1994 Ladies Please! as Self

1994 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as Adam Whitely / Felicia Jollygoodfellow

1993 Flynn as Errol Flynn

1991 Hunting as Sharp

1990 Heaven Tonight as Paul Dysart

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