Guy Pearce
Guy Pearce ( born October 5, 1967 in Ely, Cambridgeshire ) is an Australian- British actor.
Life and career
Pearce moved at the age of three years with his parents from England to Australia. His father, a New Zealand pilot, died in a plane crash killed when Pearce was eight years old.
He made the first television experience immediately after his graduation in the Australian soap opera Neighbours ( Neighbours ). His breakthrough as a serious actor Guy Pearce had with the Australian low-budget production Priscilla - Queen of the Desert (1994). In it, he plays Adam / Felicia, a drag queen. The film received an Oscar for the costumes.
Great attention was paid to Pearce in the Hollywood films LA Confidential, here he plays an ambitious police officer, and in the thriller Memento, in which he played a man who suffers from memory loss.
2002 Pearce in The Time Machine, the remake of the on the science fiction novel The Time Machine (Original Title: The Time Machine ) to see HG Wells based film The Time Machine, in which he played the scientist Alexander Hart sword.
Also in 2002, he plays in the film Monte Cristo the sly friend Fernand Mondego. In 2010 he was seen in the supporting role of abdicating the British King Edward VIII in the Oscar - winning film The King's Speech. A year later he brought the part of Monty Beragon in Todd Haynes television miniseries Mildred Pierce an Emmy. In 2012 he stood as an entrepreneur Peter Weyland in Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller Prometheus - in front of the camera.
Pearce lives with his wife Kate in Melbourne, where he also plays the theater.