Guy Pearce Movies and Career Information

Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is a British born Australian actor and musician known for his portrayal of anterograde amnesia victim Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, his performance as Lieutenant Ed Exley in the film L.A. Confidential, his depiction of a drag queen in the cult film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and for his role as Mike Young in the popular Australian television series Neighbours. Pearce was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire in the UK, the son of Anne Cocking (née Pickering), a County Durham-born schoolteacher specialising in needlework and home economics, and Stuart Pearce, a New Zealand-born air force test pilot who died when Pearce was nine. When he was three years old, Pearce moved to Geelong, Australia, where his mother ran a deer farm. He attended The Geelong College and was a member of the GSODA Junior Players. From ages 16 to 22, he was a competitive amateur bodybuilder, culminating in a Mr. Natural Victoria title. Pearce lived in Blackburn North in the late 1980s while working on the Australian drama series Neighbours. Pearce starred in several theatre productions when he was young, and graduated to television when he was