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Guy Pearce
Born 5 Oct 1967, in Ely, Cambridgeshire
Wise words: "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."
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Guy Pearce - news / articles
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Pearce in talks to join Iron Man 3 cast -
20 April 2012
-Aussie actor Guy Pearce is in talks to join Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Sir Ben Kingsley in Iron Man 3.-The Memento star is slated to play geneticist Aldrich Killian - the man behind the Extremis serum, which empowers heroes, like Downey, Jr's Iron Man
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Pearce apologises for mocking Australian capital -
13 April 2012
-Guy Pearce has apologised to his fellow Australians after mocking the nation's capital city in a U.S. interview, insisting he feels "embarrassed and mortified" and is "truly very sorry".-The Memento star, who was born in England and moved to Australia as a child, m
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Pearce's bodybuilding background helped him bulk up for action movie -
11 April 2012
-Aussie movie star Guy Pearce didn't have to struggle to get into shape for new action film Lockout - he was a teenage bodybuilding champion.-The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert star admits he became gym obsessed in his mid-teens and started wowing with
Guy Pearce - what members say
review by A customer from Hull
As good as the book 20 September 2003
review by A customer from Tyne and Wear, England
Stamp of approval 24 August 2004
review by FutureMan from London
More swashbuckles than you can shake a sword at! 9 August 2008
Guy Pearce - filmography
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Lockout
(2012)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare
Director: James Mather, Stephen St. Leger
Certificate: 
A man is wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. He's offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
 
59%
from 81 members
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Prometheus
(2012)
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron
Director: Ridley Scott
Certificate: 
Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand ..read more »
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from 203 members
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Prometheus - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Sean Harris, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott steps back into sci-fi territory with this tale that takes its cues from the Alien films -- which it was originally supposed to tie in to before growing into its own mythology during pre-production. Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof provide the script, while THE GIRL WITH THE ..read more »
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from 6 members
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Justice - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Nicolas Cage stars as a high school teacher who bands with a group of vigilantes in order to avenge a violent crime against his wife in this thriller from director Roger Donaldson. Robert Tannen handles scripting duties, with January Jones, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Carpenter, and LOST's Harold ..read more »
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from 1,301 member
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Justice
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce
Director: Roger Donaldson
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High school teacher Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage) lives a life of content domesticity with his beautiful wife Laura (January Jones) until one night’s horrific events turns their world upside when Laura is left for dead after being violently attacked.
As Laura lays helpless in hospital with Will ..read more »
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from 2,388 members
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The King's Speech
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate: 
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After the death of his father, King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of the United Kingdom. With his country on the ..read more »
84%
from 53,236 members
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce
Director: Troy Nixey
Certificate:
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A young girl inadvertently unleashes a race of ancient monsters while exploring her father's 19th century mansion in this horror remake written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, and directed by newcomer Troy Nixey. Introverted Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison) has just moved in with her father, ..read more »
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from 3,826 members
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The King's Speech - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate:
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After the death of his father, King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of the United Kingdom. With his country on the ..read more »
84%
from 16,176 members
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce
Director: Troy Nixey
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
A young girl inadvertently unleashes a race of ancient monsters while exploring her father's 19th century mansion in this horror remake written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, and directed by newcomer Troy Nixey. Introverted Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison) has just moved in with her father, ..read more »
56%
from 2,424 members
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Animal Kingdom
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton
Director: David Michod
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Animal Kingdom tells the story of seventeen year-old J (Josh) as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
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from 13,662 members
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The Road
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
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Post apocalyptic tale based on the bestselling novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men). A father and son travel on foot through a devastated American landscape, battling both starvation and cannibals.
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from 42,961 members
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Traitor
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Neal McDonough
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations Officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to suspect organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on ..read more »
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from 16,505 members
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The Hurt Locker
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Certificate:
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Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
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from 88,755 members
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The Hurt Locker - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Based on the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal (who adapted his experiences with a bomb squad into a fact-based, yet fictional story), director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War-set action thriller THE HURT LOCKER presents the conflict in the Middle East from the perspective of those ..read more »
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from 24,198 members
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Bedtime Stories - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce
Director: Adam Shankman
Certificate: 
The life of Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman, is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids' ..read more »
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from 5,236 members
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Traitor - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Neal McDonough, Don Cheadle, Said Taghmaoui
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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TRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born,..read more »
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from 4,353 members
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Bedtime Stories
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce
Director: Adam Shankman
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The life of Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman, is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids' ..read more »
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from 26,903 members
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Death Defying Acts
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall
Director: Gillian Armstrong
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Watch now: £2.49
Celebrated director Gillian Armstrong (MY BRILLIANT CAREER, LITTLE WOMEN) helms this film about Harry Houdini's romance with a con woman. In his attempts to contact his dead mother, the magician (Guy Pearce) meets a beautiful psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who isn't all she appears.
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from 3,319 members
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The Proposition - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Australian director John Hillcoat first teamed up with singer Nick Cave on 1988's disturbing GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD, for which Cave co-authored the screenplay and took a memorably brief acting role. The two reconvene for 2006's THE PROPOSITION, with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a ..read more »
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from 1,675 member
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Factory Girl
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen
Director: George Hickenlooper
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A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to ..read more »
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from 15,070 members
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The Proposition
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Tom Budge, Emily Watson
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
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from 15,534 members
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Two Brothers
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud is known for tackling profound subject matter in films such as QUEST FOR FIRE, SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, and ENEMY AT THE GATES. Occasionally he takes refuge in lighter films. After his first successful animal tale, THE BEAR (1989), Annaud's second wildlife film is ..read more »
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from 12,010 members
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The Hard Word
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Joel Edgerton
Director: Scott Roberts
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In this action-comedy directed by Scott Roberts, a trio of Melbourne prison rats work with a crime boss on the outside, trying to pull off one last scheme to satisfy the man so he'll spring them from jail. The Twentyman brothers consist of leader Dale (Guy Pearce), ex-butcher Mal (Damien Richardson)..read more »
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from 1,412 member
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The Time Machine
(2002)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law
Director: Simon Wells
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This adaptation of the classic sci-fi adventure tale by H.G. Wells, directed by Simon Wells (the great-grandson of the author), stars Guy Pearce as Alex Hartdegen, an absent-minded New York professor preoccupied with what passes for technology at the turn of the 20th century. However, the one thing ..read more »
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from 7,396 members
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The Count of Monte Cristo
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris
Director: Kevin Reynolds
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In this highly entertaining, beautifully photographed rekindling of the classic French novel by Alexandre Dumas, director Kevin Reynolds choreographs a fantastic adventure replete with breathtaking scenery, fiery swashbuckling battles, lavish costumes, and, above all else, sweet revenge. In 19th-..read more »
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from 6,062 members
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Memento
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Christopher Nolan
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MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator ..read more »
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from 72,875 members
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Memento - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Christopher Nolan
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MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator ..read more »
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from 403 members
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Ravenous
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette
Director: Antonia Bird
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A cowardly American soldier (Guy Pearce) is stationed at an isolated military outpost with a bunch of misfits in Sierra Nevada following the Mexican-American War in 1847. When a dazed survivor (Robert Carlyle) of an unfortunate mountain expedition shows up at the outpost, it isn't long before he ..read more »
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from 3,521 members
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L.A. Confidential - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Director Curtis Hanson captures the duality of 1950s Los Angeles in this striking film noir adaptation of James Ellroy's novel. The City of Angels might be sunny, inviting, and glamorous to the rest of the world, but it's also filled with corrupt cops, elegant hookers, murder cover-ups, and ..read more »
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from 3,026 members
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L.A. Confidential
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Director Curtis Hanson captures the duality of 1950s Los Angeles in this striking film noir adaptation of James Ellroy's novel. The City of Angels might be sunny, inviting, and glamorous to the rest of the world, but it's also filled with corrupt cops, elegant hookers, murder cover-ups, and ..read more »
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from 58,058 members
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Snowy River - The McGregor Saga
(1993)
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce
Director: Pino Amenta, Tim Burstall
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SNOWY RIVER, the Australian TV series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "Man from Snowy River," takes place in the late 19th century in a small mountain town outside of Melbourne. The program follows the dramatic story of Matt McGregor and his family as it plays out in the course of this charming, ..read more »
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from 17 members
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Flynn
on DVD
Starring: Guy Pearce, Steven Berkoff, Claudia Karvan
Director: Frank Howson
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Pearce (from L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) plays everyone's favourite swashbuckler Errol Flynn in his early years. This biopic details Flynn's life, from his youth in Australia to his early adventures in Hollywood up until his trial for murder at age 21.
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...scar. It was far from the best performance in the movie. That also brings me to Guy Pearce. Maybe it's because I'm supposed to dislike his character but I just found him ...
