- Born
- Birth nameGuy Edward Pearce
- Nickname
- Mike from Neighbours
- Height5′ 10¼″ (1.79 m)
- Guy Edward Pearce was born October 5, 1967 in Cambridgeshire, England, UK to Margaret Anne and Stuart Graham Pearce. His father was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to English and Scottish parents, while Guy's mother is English. Pearce and his family initially traveled to Australia for two years, after his father was offered the position of Chief test pilot for the Australian Government. Guy was just 3-years-old. After deciding to stay in Australia and settling in the Victorian city of Geelong, Guy's father was killed 5 years later in an aircraft test flight, leaving Guy's mother, a schoolteacher, to care for him and his older sister, Tracy.
Having little interest in subjects at school like math or science, Guy favored art, drama and music. He joined local theatre groups at a young age and appeared in such productions as "The King and I," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "The Wizard of Oz." In 1985, just two days after his final high school exam, Guy started a four-year stint as "Mike Young" on the popular Aussie soap Neighbours (1985). At age 20, Guy appeared in his first film, Heaven Tonight (1989), then, after a string of appearances in film, television and on the stage, he won the role of an outrageous drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994).
Most recently, he has amazed film critics and audiences, alike, with his magnificent performances in L.A. Confidential (1997), Memento (2000), The Proposition (2005), Factory Girl (2006), The Hurt Locker (2008), The King's Speech (2010) and the HBO mini-series, Mildred Pierce (2011). Next to acting, Guy has had a life-long passion for music and songwriting.
Guy likes to keep his private life very private. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, which is also where he married his childhood sweetheart, Kate Mestitz in March 1997.- IMDb mini biography by: Tim Neal
- SpouseKate Mestitz(March 15, 1997 - January 2015) (divorced)
- ChildrenMonte Pearce
- ParentsMargaret Anne PearceStuart Graham Pearce
- RelativesTracy Pearce(Sibling)
- Often plays smart but arrogant characters
- Father was a test pilot who died in a crash in 1976.
- For his role in Prometheus (2012), he was required to sit in a make-up chair for five hours. The make-up and prosthetics would then take one hour to remove.
- Turned down the title role in Daredevil (2003).
- (March 19, 2016) Announced that he and his then-girlfriend Carice van Houten are expecting their first child together in August 2016.
- His favorite movie is The Elephant Man (1980).
- You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.
- Well, if you'd like to get technical, I'm English, and Russell's from New Zealand. [when asked about the studio's reluctance to hire "two Australians" for roles in American period piece L.A. Confidential (1997)]
- I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
- A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.
- I love being at home in Melbourne, reading scripts, doing the gardening and running around after my wife.
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