Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce

1967-10-05 Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK 94 Credits

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 Curti...

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The Dog Stars

2026

Acting

After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gu...

The Shrouds

The Shrouds

2025

as Maury

5.9
Acting

Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living...

Inside

Inside

2025

as Warren Murfett

10.0
Acting

After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Mark Shepard, Australia’s most despised criminal, an...

Inside

Inside

2025

Executive Producer

10.0
Producing

After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Mark Shepard, Australia’s most despised criminal, an...

The Brutalist

The Brutalist

2024

as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr

7.0
Acting

When a visionary architect and his wife flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern United States, their live...

The Convert

The Convert

2024

as Thomas Munro

6.1
Acting

Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maian...

Sunrise

Sunrise

2024

as Reynolds

5.8
Acting

When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a v...

The Infernal Machine

The Infernal Machine

2022

as Bruce Cogburn

6.2
Acting

Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought h...

Neighbours Made Me a Star

Neighbours Made Me a Star

2022

as Self

7.0
Acting

Following the soap's final episodes, a tribute to the residents of Ramsay Street and the stars that Neighbours shot to fame. Aside from a look at Kyli...

Memory

Memory

2022

as Vincent Serra

6.8
Acting

Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime s...

Back to the Outback

Back to the Outback

2021

as Frank (voice)

7.7
Acting

Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an e...

Zone 414

Zone 414

2021

as David Carmichael

5.3
Acting

In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

2021

as Thomas Clay

7.0
Acting

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

The Seventh Day

The Seventh Day

2021

as Father Peter

5.3
Acting

A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and ...

The Seventh Day

The Seventh Day

2021

Executive Producer

5.3
Producing

A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and ...

Bloodshot

Bloodshot

2020

as Dr. Emil Harting

6.7
Acting

After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman,...

Disturbing the Peace: A Small Town Standoff

Disturbing the Peace: A Small Town Standoff

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

Behind the scenes of Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace

2020

as Jim Dillon

4.6
Acting

A small-town marshal who hasn't carried a gun since he left the Texas Rangers after a tragic shooting must pick up his gun again to do battle with a g...

FX's A Christmas Carol

FX's A Christmas Carol

2019

as Ebenezer Scrooge

7.2
Acting

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts...

The Last Vermeer

The Last Vermeer

2019

as Han van Meegeren

6.5
Acting

A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a f...

Domino

Domino

2019

as Joe Martin

4.6
Acting

Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitou...

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots

2018

as William Cecil

6.6
Acting

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ru...

The Catcher Was a Spy

The Catcher Was a Spy

2018

as Robert Furman

6.2
Acting

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.

Spinning Man

Spinning Man

2018

as Evan Birch

5.6
Acting

Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reaso...

Swinging Safari

Swinging Safari

2018

as Keith Hall

5.3
Acting

1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed ...

Donny The Drone

Donny The Drone

2017

as Donny (voice)

4.5
Acting

Donny the Drone --the world’s first sentient machine goes on stage to accept a prestigious “Person of the Year” award as an auditorium of humans are c...

Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant

2017

as Peter Weyland (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but ...

Genius

Genius

2016

as F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.5
Acting

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...

Brimstone

Brimstone

2016

as The Reverend

7.1
Acting

In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

Lorne

Lorne

2016

as Lorne

5.5
Acting

Lorne, a wasteland traveler dealing with the oppressing boundaries of isolation, is confronted by a mysterious stranger, who helps him realize his exi...

Holding the Man

Holding the Man

2015

as Dick Conigrave

7.7
Acting

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor ...

Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life

Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life

2015

as Self

5.3
Acting

The story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his earliest days in Scotland, through his family's emig...

Equals

Equals

2015

as Jonas

6.1
Acting

A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.

Between a Frock and a Hard Place

Between a Frock and a Hard Place

2015

as Self

7.8
Acting

This is the story behind one of the world’s most loved films; about three unlikely Australian hero-(ine)s daring to step up from the shadows in their ...

Results

Results

2015

as Trevor

5.1
Acting

Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.

Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite

Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite

2015

as Self

0.5
Acting

The stars of Neighbours, past and present, reminisce about their time on the show, plus a countdown of the top five most memorable moments chosen by v...

Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'

Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'

2014

as Self

5.0
Acting

Behind the scenes look at David Michôd's 2014 film 'The Rover'.

The Rover

The Rover

2014

as Eric

6.3
Acting

Ten years after a severe economic collapse in the western world, lawlessness reigns and life is cheap. Eric is a lone drifter, and his car is his only...

Jack Irish: Dead Point

Jack Irish: Dead Point

2014

as Jack Irish

6.8
Acting

Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.

Hateship Loveship

Hateship Loveship

2014

as Ken

5.8
Acting

A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's pran...

Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3

2013

as Aldrich Killian

6.9
Acting

When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

Breathe In

Breathe In

2013

as Keith Reynolds

5.9
Acting

When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters th...

Jack Irish: Black Tide

Jack Irish: Black Tide

2012

as Jack Irish

6.7
Acting

Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading ph...

Jack Irish: Bad Debts

Jack Irish: Bad Debts

2012

as Jack Irish

6.4
Acting

Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investi...

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus

2012

as Self

7.2
Acting

An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," featuring cast and crew interviews, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. Rele...

Lawless

Lawless

2012

as Charlie Rakes

7.1
Acting

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging....

Prometheus

Prometheus

2012

as Peter Weyland

6.6
Acting

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they ...

Prometheus: Project Prometheus - Mission

Prometheus: Project Prometheus - Mission

2012

as Peter Weyland

Acting

Project Prometheus: Mission is a 2012 short film. Created as part of the viral marketing campaign for Prometheus and to promote the interactive Projec...

Lockout

Lockout

2012

as Snow

5.9
Acting

Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission ...

The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023

The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023

2012

as Peter Weyland

8.5
Acting

Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of th...

Seeking Justice

Seeking Justice

2011

as Simon

5.9
Acting

After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.

33 Postcards

33 Postcards

2011

as Dean Randall

5.7
Acting

Dean Randall has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are cha...

The King's Speech

The King's Speech

2010

as King Edward VIII

7.7
Acting

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie...

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

2010

as Alex Hirst

5.8
Acting

A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom

2010

as Nathan Leckie

6.8
Acting

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved i...

The Road

The Road

2009

as Veteran

7.0
Acting

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough t...

Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009

as Dr Bruce Laraby

5.9
Acting

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horre...

In Her Skin

In Her Skin

2009

as Mr. Barber

6.0
Acting

Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories

2008

as Kendall

6.2
Acting

Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fa...

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker

2008

as Sergeant Matt Thompson

7.3
Acting

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his wo...

Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'

2008

as Self

5.0
Acting

Curtis Hanson and his behind-the-scenes collaborators reveal the secrets of bringing 1950s Los Angeles to life in unforgettable style.

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

2008

as Self

7.0
Acting

Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a modern classic.

Traitor

Traitor

2008

as Roy Clayton

6.6
Acting

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former ...

Death Defying Acts

Death Defying Acts

2007

as Harry Houdini

6.0
Acting

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

Factory Girl

Factory Girl

2006

as Andy Warhol

6.0
Acting

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems ...

First Snow

First Snow

2006

as Jimmy Starks

6.1
Acting

A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.

The Proposition

The Proposition

2005

as Charlie Burns

7.0
Acting

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hun...

Two Brothers

Two Brothers

2004

as Aidan McRory

7.1
Acting

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces...

Till Human Voices Wake Us

Till Human Voices Wake Us

2002

as Dr. Sam Franks

5.3
Acting

Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side...

The Hard Word

The Hard Word

2002

as Dale

5.4
Acting

Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you ...

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

2002

as Alexander Hartdegen

6.3
Acting

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two...

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

2002

as Fernand Mondego

7.7
Acting

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable ...

Memento

Memento

2000

as Leonard

8.2
Acting

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the f...

Rules of Engagement

Rules of Engagement

2000

as Maj. Mark Biggs

6.2
Acting

A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.

Ravenous

Ravenous

1999

as Boyd

6.8
Acting

Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving...

A Slipping Down Life

A Slipping Down Life

1999

as Drumstrings Casey

4.1
Acting

A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.

Woundings

Woundings

1998

as Jimmy Compton

2.8
Acting

A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers.

L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential

1997

as Edmund 'Ed' Exley

7.8
Acting

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of...

The Devil Game

The Devil Game

1997

1.0
Acting

Detectives are trying to cracking down on a drug smuggling ring in a local fishing village.

Dating the Enemy

Dating the Enemy

1996

as Brett

6.3
Acting

Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their firs...

Ladies Please!

1994

as Self

1.0
Acting

"Ladies Please" is a rare and stimulating insight into the bohemian world that is drag and into the professional and personal lives of three of its mo...

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

1994

as Adam Whitely / Felicia Jollygoodfellow

7.3
Acting

Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they ...

Flynn

Flynn

1993

as Errol Flynn

4.2
Acting

A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.

Hunting

Hunting

1991

as Sharp

1.7
Acting

An American tycoon goes to Melbourne where he meets a married secretary.

Heaven Tonight

Heaven Tonight

1990

as Paul Dysart

3.0
Acting

The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but ...

Easter Rising

N/A

as Padraig Pearse

10.0
Acting

A film by Irish Director Jason Barry (Bog Bodies, Titanic). Set in Ireland, and starring Guy Pearce (Memento, LA Confidential) as Padraig Pearse, East...

Killing Faith

Killing Faith

N/A

as Bender

Acting

In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journ...

Untitled Priscilla, Queen of the Desert sequel

N/A

as Adam Whitely / Felicia Jollygoodfellow

Acting

Plot details are still under wraps, but it will feature a grown-up version of Tick’s 7-year-old son from the original film.

Poor Boy

Poor Boy

N/A

as Danny

Acting

A little boy announces on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny, a grown man who died seven years earlier.

The Woman in Cabin 10

The Woman in Cabin 10

N/A

Acting

A journalist witnesses a passenger being thrown overboard a luxury yacht at night—only to be told that it didn’t happen as all the passengers and crew...

Mr. Sunny Sky

N/A

as Leonard Moore

Acting

Leonard Moore is a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel. One night he meets Shirley, another lost soul wi...

Blurred

Blurred

N/A

Acting

After a brutal mugging leaves him with double vision, a fashion photographer turns to a grieving woman for inspiration—until obsession warps reality, ...

Neponset Circle

N/A

Acting

Jimmy O'Mannon, a hailed police officer, and fresh out of prison after serving eight years, gets right back to being a detective, by following-up on a...

Poor Boy

Poor Boy

N/A

Director

Directing

A little boy announces on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny, a grown man who died seven years earlier.