Guy Pearce

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Gender: Male
Born: 5th October 1967 (currently 44 years old)
Nationality: Australia, United Kingdom
TV programs: The Man from Snowy River, Neighbours, Home and Away, Mildred Pierce
Movies: Dating the Enemy, Factory Girl, L.A. Confidential, Memento, Ravenous, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Time Machine, Two Brothers, First Snow, Winged Creatures, A Slipping-Down Life, Death Defying Acts, Rules of Engagement, Bedtime Stories, Till Human Voices Wake Us, The Hard Word, The Hurt Locker, Woundings, Traitor, The Road, Animal Kingdom, The King's Speech, Flynn, In Her Skin, Seeking Justice, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, The Proposition, Lockout, Prometheus, 33 Postcards, Thicker, Yellow Earth, Lawless, Seeking Justice, Untitled Drake Doremus Project, Untitled International Thriller, Iron Man 3

Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L.A. Confidential, a drag queen in the The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours and King Edward VIII ("David") in The King's Speech. Pearce has won an Emmy Award, and received nominations for Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Saturn Awards.

Pearce was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire. His mother, Anne Cocking (née Pickering), was a County Durham-born schoolteacher specialising in needlework and home economics, and his father, Stuart Pearce, was a New Zealand-born air force test pilot who died when Pearce was nine. When he was three years old, Pearce moved to Geelong, Australia, where his mother ran a deer farm. He attended the Geelong College, a local private school, and was a member of the GSODA Junior Players. From the age of 15 to 22, he was a competitive amateur bodybuilder, leading to the title of Junior Mr. Victoria. He also partook in fencing. He lived in Box Hill North, Victoria in the late 1980s while working on

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