Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an English-born Australian Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated actor and musician, perhaps best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of anterograde amnesia victim Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, his performance as Lieutenant Ed Exley in the film L.A. Confidential, and for his role as Mike Young in the popular Australian television series Neighbours.
Pearce was born in Ely, Cambridg...
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Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an English-born Australian Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated actor and musician, perhaps best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of anterograde amnesia victim Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, his performance as Lieutenant Ed Exley in the film L.A. Confidential, and for his role as Mike Young in the popular Australian television series Neighbours.
Pearce was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, 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. Pearce lived in Fithie Street Blackburn North, Victoria in the late 1980s while working on the Australian drama series Neighbours. From ages 16 to 22,...
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