Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce was born on October 5, 1967 in Cambridgeshire (England) and when he was 3 years old his whole family moved to Australia. The change of residence was motivated by the work of his father, who was a New Zealand pilot. The Pearces’ lives changed drastically when five years after they arrived in Australia his father died in a plane crash. A fact that could have motivated the return to England of the family; but nevertheless, they chose to stay in their new home, where they ended up making their lives. Guy was still very young, but he already showed a lot of interest in art and music, so at the age of 11 he joined a theater group with which he performed works such as “The Wizard of Oz” or “Alice in Wonderland.” ”.

Already at that time, Guy was not a very self-confident child, as he admits he is today. Motivated by these insecurities, he decided to combine his acting facet with the world of bodybuilding, where he came to win some prize. However, he did not follow in the footsteps of fellow professionals like Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger . He soon turned to acting, and in 1985 he landed a role on the popular television series Neighbors , where he played Mike Young, a student-turned-teacher. His time in the series made him famous, especially among teenagers.

His first film role came in 1990 with the thriller Friday on My Mind , a genre that has been repeated quite a bit throughout his career. From that moment on, she worked on various inconsequential titles, until she was presented with the opportunity to co-star in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.(1994), where he was a crazy transvestite on a concert tour of Australia. With this role he demonstrated his quality as an actor, something he has done again later. Until then, his career took place in Australia, where he had his past and future home, since in 1997 he married his youthful love Kate Mestitz, with whom he lives in Melbourne. Despite this justified Australian attachment that continues to this day, Hollywood candy is tempting, and Guy did not turn down the role of Lieutenant Ed Exley in Curtis Hanson ‘s fabulous film noir L.A. Confidential (1997). In the company of Kevin Spacey , Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger, Pearce boarded his rookie police officer eager to clean up the corrupt police force. His character, both horrifying and endearing, has been the actor’s best work to date. This good performance, however, was not followed by memorable titles. In 1999 he became a pop star in A Slipping-Down Life , which allowed him to show the public his talent as a musician, since Guy is passionate and sings, plays the piano, guitar and sax. In this line of more unknown works is the peculiar Ravenous , also from 1999, a vintage film about cannibalism. A year later he once again had the opportunity to demonstrate his good skills as a secondary in the military drama Rules of Engagement , in which they starredTommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson .

Then came his most commercial moment, hand in hand with the disturbing thriller Memento (2000) by Christopher Nolan , where he played a man with no short-term memory who was trying to solve the death of his wife. Despite this more commercial point, of reaching a broader audience, Guy’s professional and personal life is tied to discretion. And the fame from the beginning of his career hasn’t gotten out of hand, something that pleases him, because as he himself states, “I don’t want to be a celebrity. The small amount of fame I had in the past was nice, but when you’ve known it you realize you really don’t want it again.” And this is precisely how his current life is, because despite his worth as an actor, he is not particularly known worldwide.

Although Guy has managed to carve out a career in Hollywood, he has not forgotten his beloved Australia, where he has continued to star in titles such as the western The Proposal (2005). Among his most recent works are two in which he has become a real character. For the occasion he already had experience, since his first leading role was in Flynn (1996), a biographical drama about actor Errol Flynn . He recently played Andy Warhol in Factory Girls (2006), a dramatized biography of Edie Sedgwick, the artist’s muse, and Houdini in The Last Great Wizard .(2007), which is now in theaters, although this time the character is real, but the facts are not. The love story that he lives on the screen with Catherine Zeta-Jones clashes with one of the last images that Pearce had left in the public’s retina. It was in the disturbing thriller First Snow (2006), marked by the fatality of fate. This genre has continued to give work to Pearce, who has just shot How to Change in 9 Weeks , about the death of a teenager, The Hurt Locker , seasoned with notes of war, and Traitor , which combines the military thriller of the previous two, but this time with a few drops of espionage. He currently rolls alongside Viggo Mortensen andCharlize Theron ‘s apocalyptic title The Highway , based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy . What is not lacking is freelance work for this discreet businessman.