Hollywood actor/musician Guy Pearce was born on October 5, 1967, in a small city Ely of Cambridge, UK. He belongs to white ethnicity and has Australian nationality. His height is 5 feet and nine inches. Born to Anne Pearce and father Stuart Pearce, he spent his childhood in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Guy Pearce, 50, is active in the entertainment business since 1985. He is a most renowned for his role as Edward vii in the movie The King's Speech (2010), and as Harry Houdini in Death Defying Acts (2008). Likewise, his role as Aldrich Killian in the live-action movie Iron Man 3 (2013) also gathered critical acclaim.
Pearce initially attended the local private school and later went to Geelong College. He was very active in his extracurricular activities; he was a member of the Geelong Society of Dramatic Arts Junior Players. He was also a competitive amateur bodybuilder at the age of 16 and later won the title of Junior Mr. Victoria.
During his high school days, he was selected to play his first movie role in Life and Study at University, a promotion for university study which was being produced and directed by Peter Lane of Deakin University.
Later, he moved from Geelong to Box Hill North inside Victoria where he started his acting career in the television series Neighbours in the late 1880s. Some of his other roles in television series include Home and Away (1988) and Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1993).
His acting ability eventually gathered the major attention of international film industry after he attended the Cannes Film Festival in 1991 for the premiere of the Howson directed movie Hunting. He was also part of other two movies of director/producer/writer Frank Howson, Heaven Tonight and Flynn.
His breakthrough role was in the movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994 where he portrayed the role of a drag queen, Felicia Jollygoodfellow. After that, he landed doing major movies like L.A. Confidential (1997), Brand New World (1998), Memento (2000), The Hard Word (2002) and The Proposition (2005).
After a number of movies, Poor Boy was his returning act in the theatre after seven years of gap in January 2009. The play was the production of Melbourne Theatre Company, a play with music which was co-written by Matt Cameron and Tim Finn.
Domino and Mary Queen of Scots are his upcoming movies for 2018 and are in the post-production process.
Guy Pearce's salary per movie is not known, but he has an estimated net worth of $9.6 million. He owns a few luxury cars that include brands like Audi and Ford. His luxurious home in Victoria, Australia, is estimated to be around $1.1 million which he bought in 2011.
Apart from acting, Guy Pearce is also very passionate about music and songwriting. He released Broken Bones, his first album in November of 2004.
Pearce was married to his childhood friend and psychologist Kate Mestitz in March of 1997. After 18 years of living together, they ended their relationship. They announced their separation in the month of October in 2015. Guy has been in an affair with actress Carice Van Houten since 2015. He shares a son Monte, born in August 2016, with actress-girlfriend Carice Van Houten.
Guy is an Australian Rules Football fan who supports the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football league. He has done a few advertising works for the club that also includes a documentary narration. Besides being a football fan, he supports a few charitable organizations that have been working in causes like animal rights, animal welfare and protecting Earth’s ecology.
