Guy Edward Pearce is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L.A. Confidential, a drag queen in the The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours and King Edward VIII in The King's Speech. Pearce has won an Emmy Award, and received nominations for Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Saturn Awards. Pearce was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire. His mother, Anne Cocking , was a County Durham-born schoolteacher specialising... in needlework and home economics, and his father, Stuart Pearce, was 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, a local private school, and was a member of the GSODA Junior Players. From the age of 15 to 22, he was a competitive amateur bodybuilder, leading to the title of Junior Mr. Victoria. He also partook in fencing.
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| Birthdate: | October 5, 1967 |
| Birthplace: | Ely |
| Age: | 44 |
| Height: | 5' 11" |
| Education: | The Geelong College |
| Religion: | Atheism |
| Also known as: | Guy Edward Pearce |