Guy Pearce
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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Movies (41)
The Dog Stars
2026
The Woman in Cabin 10
as Richard Bullmer
2025
Killing Faith
as Bender
2025
Together for Palestine
as Self
2025
Scarcity
as Voice
2025
The Shrouds
as Maury Entrekin
2025
Inside
as Warren Murfett
2025
The Brutalist
as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr
2024
The Convert
as Thomas Munro
2024
Sunrise
as Reynolds
2024
The Infernal Machine
as Bruce Cogburn
2022
Neighbours Made Me a Star
as Self
2022
Memory
as Vincent Serra
2022
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
2021
Bloodshot
as Dr. Emil Harting
2020
Disturbing the Peace: A Small Town Standoff
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Disturbing the Peace
as Jim Dillon
2020
FX's A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
2019
The Last Vermeer
as Han van Meegeren
2019
Domino
as Joe Martin
2019
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
2018
Donny The Drone
as Donny (voice)
2017
Alien: Covenant
as Peter Weyland (uncredited)
2017
Genius
as F. Scott Fitzgerald
2016
Brimstone
as The Reverend
2016
Lorne
as Lorne
2016
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
2015
Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'
as Self
2014
The Rover
as Eric
2014
Jack Irish: Dead Point
as Jack Irish
2014
TV Shows (9)
The Clearing
as Dr. Bryce Latham
2023
A Spy Among Friends
as Kim Philby
2022
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
as Self
2022
Mare of Easttown
as Richard Ryan
2021
The Innocents
as Halvorson
2018
When We Rise
as Cleve Jones
2017
Jack Irish
as Jack Irish
2016
The Wizards of Aus
as Morgan Wright
2016
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015