Guy Pearce Biography (2)
Pearce first came to international attention with a head-turning performance as drag queen Mitzi in Stephan Elliott's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). He cemented a growing reputation in Curtis Hanson's exhilarating noir thriller, L.A. Confidential (1997), playing by-the-book cop Ed Exley alongside Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger; and, more recently, as the lead in the brainteaser hit Memento (2000). Pearce developed his talent from an early age with numerous television, theatre and film roles in Australia. He was a teen idol in the long running TV series Neighbours, toured in the musical Grease and regularly appears on stage, most recently for Melbourne's Playbox Theatre in David Williamson's Face to Face and in 2002 for the Melbourne Theatre Company in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. His other film credits include Dating The Enemy (1995), Antonia Bird's Ravenous (1998), William Friedkin's Rules of Engagement (2000) with Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson, opposite Helena Bonham-Carter in Michael Petronis' Till Human Voices Wake Us (2001), The Count of Monte Cristo (2001) directed by Kevin Reynolds and The Time Machine (2002), directed by Simon Wells and co-starring Jeremy Irons.
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