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  Guy Pearce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guy Edward Pearce (born October 5, 1967) is an English-born Australian actor.
Pearce also found roles in other television series such as Home and Away (1988) and Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1993).
Pearce is a long-time supporter of the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League [1].
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 Guy Pearce
Pearce was born October 5, 1967, in Cambridgeshire, England.
Following the elder Pearce's tragic death in a plane crash, Pearce's mother decided to keep her family in Australia when young Pearce was eight, and it was there that he grew up.
Pearce won a significant part on the show and was part of it from 1986 to 1990.
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 Guy Pearce biography
Pearce, on the other hand, was tremendously well-balanced and instinctive in his work, keeping research to a minimum.
Guy looked like him, he spoke like him and behaved like him - but distribution problems meant the movie would not see the light of day for years - no one knew how good he was.
Guy had a little think about his future - he is, after all, a serious man, whose favourite author is Goethe, favourite musician is Kate Bush, and fave film is The Elephant Man - and left Neighbours.
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/guy_pearce_biog.html   (3403 words)

  
 Profile and Interview: GUY PEARCE
Pearce followed L.A. Confidential with a straight-laced prosecutor in The Rules of Engagement, a cannibal in Ravenous, and the villain in The Count of Monte Cristo, for which he was fastidiously intent on having as bad a set of teeth as possible.
Pearce attracted a lot of attention as brain-damaged Leonard Shelby in the mind-bending noir Memento, in which he spent a lot of screen time sans shirt.
Pearce dislikes the spotlight because he wants his characters to be accepted at face value, uncolored by assumptions based on roles he has played before.
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 Guy Pearce News
Although it boasts a cast including John Hurt, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson and Guy Pearce, "The Proposition" will probably be remembered as the film whose only novelty was that it was written by gloomy...
In the brutal Australian western "The Proposition," Guy Pearce looks like he's been dipped in grease and rolled in dirt, a scrawny piece of meat ready for the fryer.
Guy Pearce may be the most underrated actor of his generation.
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 Guy Pearce pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Born in Cambridgeshire England, Guy Pearce immigrated to Australia to live in Geelong, Victoria, with his family when he was three years old.
Even as a youngster, Guy seemed to have a clear idea of what he would end up doing in his life, shunning subjects like math and science in favor of art and music.
Guy got into body building in his early teens as a way of dealing with his insecurities about himself and his naturally thin body.
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 Guy Pearce, The Proposition Interview
Guy Pearce: “The thing that has affected me the most in doing the film is what we found out about the aboriginal culture and lifestyle.
Guy Pearce: “I don’t think it seemed as difficult for me as, I guess it might have been for Emily [Watson] or Ray [Winstone] perhaps.
Guy Pearce: “The funny thing is, once I was in the right frame of mind I couldn’t refuse it.
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 Guy Pearce
For Guy Pearce, the big bucks might be with Hollywood biggies, but this is one actor whose best work is back in Australia.
Guy says he was drawn to that character because "I liked the humour and this character's cleverness.
Before Guy found international fame through Priscilla and L.A. Confidential, he was a struggling actor on TV soap operas and such forgettable films as Hunting, Heaven Tonight and Flynn.
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 EI > Interviews > Guy Pearce
But Guy Pearce who already could be described as handsome would probably make a beautiful woman and proved that by playing Felicia Jollygoodfellow in "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."
In "The Hard Word," released about a month ago, Pearce goes to great lengths to hide his angular features and achieves a look that is just scruffy and dirty.
Pearce is an actor who can effectively transform himself both on the outside and within.
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 Amazon.com: Memento: DVD: Guy Pearce,Joe Pantoliano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Guy Pearce plays Leonard, a former insurance investigator who has mislaid his short-term memory; leave the room and come back ten minutes later, and he won't remember you.
Guy Pearce portrays [Leonard Shelby] a former insurance agent who is trying to track down the man who raped and murdered his wife.
Guy Pearce as Leonard, Mark Boone Junior as Burt, Russ Fega as Waiter, Jorja Fox as Leonard's Wife, Stephen Tobolowsky as Sammy, Harriet Sansom Harris as Mrs.
www.amazon.com /Memento-Guy-Pearce/dp/B00003CXZ4   (3140 words)

  
 Guy Pearce, The Time Machine Interview
There is something ironic about Guy Pearce's starring role in the sci-fi adventure The Time Machine the original classic film, made in 1960, also starred an Australian who was beginning to take Hollywood by storm: Rod Taylor.
Pearce, who had literally just flown into Los Angeles from his homeland, laughs at the irony.
Though Pearce had never read Wells' novel, he was drawn to the themes of the 1960 version of the story, responding to "that notion that as human beings you tend not to want to concentrate on the present moment.
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 Guy Pearce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Guy's father was a pilot and his mother was a school teacher.
Guy was born in England but his family moved to Australia when he was three years old.
Guy married his childhood sweetheart Kate Mestitz in 1997.
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 'The Time Machine': Guy Pearce interview :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
But the role of a big-budget action hero in The Time Machine was as foreign a landscape to the stage-trained Pearce as the world 800,000 years in the future is to his character in the movie, the time-traveling Victorian scientist Alexander Hartdegen.
Still sporting bleach-blond hair for his recent role on the Australian stage in Tennesee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, Pearce says that he was compelled to look in more iconic terms at his role as a bookish professor who explores the boundaries of past, present and future.
Pearce admits that because he is used to playing more reality-rooted characters, Hartdegen's evolution from tortured genius to resolute protector was much more muted and subtle, while set against a fantastic sci-fi backdrop.
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 PIXELSURGEON | Interviews | Movie | Guy Pearce
Since making his name on Neighbours, Guy Pearce has transformed himself into a bona fide movie star.
GUY PEARCE: There was a period prior to making the film where it suddenly dawned on me that I really had no idea who Charlie was, and I went through that process that actors are supposed to go through where they ask lots of questions.
Nick Cave was on the receiving end of a lot of them, but in the end it felt on some level that it didn’t really matter who he was, what was important was the situation that he was in.
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 Guy Pearce - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Pearce had begun acting in Australian theater when he was a child and has appeared in both plays and musicals, including a year-long tour in "Grease" (as Danny Zuko), "I Hate Hamlet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
On the big screen, Pearce debuted as a rock musician in "Heaven Tonight" (1988), was featured opposite John Savage in the psychological thriller "Hunting" (lensed in 1989; released in 1991).
As the bespectacled Ed Exley, Pearce delivered a polished portrayal of a headstrong, politically astute cop; it was a far cry from the drag artiste of "Priscilla" and demonstrated the actor's range and versatility.
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 Guy Pearce
Guy Pearce's father was from New Zealand, his mother from England.
The family moved to Australia when Pearce was three, and his father, a test pilot, was killed in a plane crash when Pearce was 9.
Most Americans first saw Pearce as a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, or a few years later in L.A. Confidential, with no trace of his Australian accent.
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 The Guy Pearce Picture Pages
Following his father’s death, 10-year-old Guy and his older sister, Tracy Pearce, were raised by their single mother until she married deer farmer Laurie Cocking in 1983.
Pearce’s growing popularity earned another boost in 1994 when he starred as drag artiste Felicia/Adam Whitely in Stephen Elliott’s The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, opposite Terence Stamp and Hugo Weaving, which won him attention outside his native land.
As the bespectacled ‘Ed’ Exley, Pearce offered a graceful portrayal of a determined, politically judicious cop and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild for Outstanding Performance by a Cast due to his fine work in the movie.
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 Guy Pearce - MovieActors.com
Guy Pearce was born on October 5, 1967 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
Guy joined a local theatrical groups when he was eleven, where he acted in some amateur theater productions of THE KING AND I, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Pearce has written hundreds of songs, several of his songs were featured in the 1991 movie HUNTING.
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 Guy Pearce - film actor - Brief Article - Interview Interview - Find Articles
Perhaps that's why Memento, in which he plays a memory-impaired man seeking vengeance for his wife's rape and murder, seems to be the perfect role for the actor: His character cannot carry the baggage of memory, nor know its pain.
If Pearce's caustic drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) was his calling card on the world, then the part of a conniving, overconfident young cop in L.A. Confidential (1997) made him a rising star opposite a seething, thugishly fragile Russell Crowe.
The film is hip and ambitious and, with upcoming mainstream roles in The Count of Monte Cristo and HG Wells' Time Machine, so too is the uneasy, elusive Guy Pearce.
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 BBC - Films - interview - Guy Pearce - Memory Loss
You play a guy with a memory span of a goldfish.
I found that really innovative and it relates to the condition that the character is suffering.
Guy Pearce on appearing in "Neighbours" and working with volatile, William Friedkin.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/10/12/guy_pearce_interview.shtml   (254 words)

  
 Guy Pearce to play Houdini
It's been a while since we've heard from, or rather seen, the fantastic Guy Pearce, and quite frankly that's a shame.
...Guy Pearce has been cast as the legendary illusionist and Rachel Weisz has signed on as his Scottish mistress.
Posted by: Grant at July 26, 2005 03:30 PM wow Guy Pearce is finally playing the character he modeled his recent career after.
www.themovieblog.com /archives/2005/07/guy_pearce_to_play_houdini.html   (389 words)

  
 Profil Vecernice: Guy Pearce
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Guy Pearce je muz mnoha talentu, ktery na sobe neustale pracuje, a ke vsemu zatracene dobre vypada.
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 GUY PEARCE FAN • • your #1 resource for all things Guy Pearce
I should at least mention Guy Pearce's Warhol portrayal, which for me is much drier and colder and more delicious than Jared Harris's portrayal in I Shot Andy Warhol or Crispin Glover's in The Doors.
The rumble in the jungle is that Weinstein Co. execs feels Guy's performance is Oscar-worthy also.
Guy Pearce Fan has been chosen as today's Celebrity Site of the day!
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 Guy Pearce - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
With classic, square-jawed good looks, Australian actor Guy Pearce brings to mind the leading men of Hollywood's Golden Age; however, the actor is...
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 Guy - photos and videos. This page may contain adult content (e.g links to nude/naked pics).
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Guy was born in 1967-10-05 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
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 HSX Prediction Market: StarBonds® : Guy Pearce
Guy Pearce began his career on the Aussie soap opera Neighbors, but it was his starring role as the flamboyant drag queen Felicia in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert made him a star.
In 1997, Pearce starred in L.A. Confidential, opposite Russell Crowe.
His role as the by-the-book Ed Exley caught the notice of moviegoers and made him a household name.
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 Guy Pearce Current Month TV Schedule
Starring James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, Dagmara Dominczyk, Luis Guzman, Michael Wincott, James Frain, Albie Woodington, Alex Norton, Christopher Adamson.
Starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, David Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, John Spencer, Stephen Spinella, Neal McDonough, Bill Brochtrup, Sheila Tousey.
Starring Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, Irma P Hall, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Veronica Cartwright, Marshall Bell, Shawnee Smith, Bruno Kirby, Tom Bower.
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 Guy Pearce Filmography
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Starting out in Neighbours, then graduating to Home And Away, it's impossible to believe that Guy Pearce has hit the top of the Hollywood tree.
Then again, the man was a bodybuilding champion, a singing star, and played one of the most flamboyant drag queens in screen history.
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/guy_pearce_films.html   (262 words)

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