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Date of Birth

5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Birth Name

Guy Edward Pearce

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Mini Biography

Born in 1967 in Cambridgeshire, England, Guy Pearce emigrated to Australia to live in Geelong, Victoria, with his family when he was three years old. Five years later, his father, a New Zealand pilot, died in a plane crash leaving his English schoolteacher mother to care for him and his older sister Tracey.

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 joined local theatrical groups at the age of eleven, where he appeared in amateur theater productions of "The King and I", "Alice in Wonderland", and "The Wizard of Oz". Guy became involved in body building in his early teens as a way of dealing with his insecurities about himself and his naturally thin body. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he won the "Mr. Junior Victoria" body building competition. Just two days after his final high school exam in 1985, Guy started his four-year stint as hunky student-turned-teacher Mike Young on the popular Aussie soap "Neighbours" (1985), which helped turn him into a major teen idol. After his television successes in such Australian TV programs as Neighbours, "Home and Away" (1988) and "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga" (1993), Guy has since carved himself an illustrious film career which includes a contemporary rock drama Heaven Tonight (1990), a comical romantic fantasy Dating the Enemy (1996); portraying a young Errol Flynn in Flynn (1997).

Most recently he has amazed film critics and audiences alike with his magnificent performances in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), L.A. Confidential (1997), and Ravenous (1999). Next to acting, Guy has had a life long passion for music. In addition to singing and playing the guitar, saxophone, and piano, he has written hundreds of songs, including several that were featured in the movie Hunting (1991).

Guy likes to keep his private life very private. He currently makes his home in Melbourne, Australia which is also where he married his childhood sweetheart Kate Mestitz in March 1997.

IMDb Mini Biography By: MistyGrace

Spouse

Kate Mestitz

(15 March 1997 - present)

Trivia

Was ranked #17 in E's Most Sexiest Men in Entertainment 2002.

Was ranked #20 in E's Most Sexiest Men in Entertainment 2003.

Growing up in regional Victorian town Geelong; he now resides in Melbourne, Australia.

Turned down the title role in Daredevil (2003).

In one scene of L.A. Confidential (1997), he accidentally drops his American accent, and briefly reverts back to his native Australian accent.

During the filming of _Factory Girl (2006)_ (qv, he became good friends with co-star Sienna Miller.

Father was a military test pilot who died in a crash in 1976.

Has an older sister.

Personal Quotes

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 the 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.

I don't want to be a celebrity. The little amount that I've had in the past - it was fun going into it. But once you realize you're in, you realize you don't actually want to be in it anymore.

I don't act because I'm some supremely confident being. I don't want to be that guy. There are leading men who tell producers, 'I do my thing. Do you want me or not in your movie?' I still see acting as getting into character.

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