Guy Pearce Filmography

Born:: October 5, 1967
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: With classic, square-jawed good looks, Australian actor Guy Pearce brings to mind the leading men of Hollywood's Golden Age; however, the actor is a thoroughly modern one, using his talents to play characters ranging from flamboyant drag queens to straight-arrow Los Angeles policemen. Pearce was...Read More

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Bedtime Stories

Actors: Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox Arquette

Synopsis: The Pacifier director Adam Shankman helms this children's fantasy concerning a worrisome architect who gradually begins to realize that the imaginative bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew are somehow beginning to manifest themselves in the real world. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

12/25/08
The Road

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Synopsis: A father (Viggo Mortensen) and son make their way across a post-apocalyptic United States in hopes of finding civilization amongst the nomadic cannibal tribes in 2929 Productions' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's thrilling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road. John Hillcoat (The Proposition) Read More

11/26/08
Traitor

Actors: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Aly Khan

Synopsis: An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's investigation. Based on an idea by Steve Martin, the film is written and directed Read More

8/27/08
Death Defying Acts

Actors: Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan

Synopsis: My Brilliant Career and Oscar and Lucinda director Gillian Armstrong explores the final feat of the greatest illusionist ever to deceive a live audience in this docudrama concerning Harry Houdini's obsessive quest to find proof of an afterlife. The year is 1926, and Houdini (Guy Pearce) is an Read More

7/11/08
Winged Creatures

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Jackie Earle Haley

Synopsis: In the aftermath of a gruesome restaurant murder, the survivors of the attack are left to ponder their own mortality and how it relates to their connection to society. Forest Whitaker, Guy Pearce, Kate Beckinsale, and Dakota Fanning headline Little Fish director Rowan Woods' adaptation of Roy Read More

2008
The Hurt Locker

Actors: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Based on recently declassified information and the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal (who adapted his experiences with a bomb squad into a fact-based, yet fictional story), director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker presents the ongoing conflict in the Middle East Read More

1/1/08
First Snow

Actors: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner, J.K. Simmons, Shea Whigham

Synopsis: A man desperately tries to keep a strange prediction from coming true in this independent psychological thriller. Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) is a traveling salesmen who is in New Mexico on business when he crosses paths with a psychic. The psychic offers to read Jimmy's fortune, and quickly informs Read More

3/23/07
Factory Girl

Actors: Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy, Jack Huston

Synopsis: The true story of one woman's brief and ultimately tragic flirtation with fame in the 1960s provides the basis for this biographical drama. In 1943, Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) was born to a wealthy and socially prominent family, and she grew up with beauty and money, but also a history of Read More

12/29/06
The Proposition

Actors: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, John Hurt

Synopsis: An outlaw is goaded into taking on justice at its most brutal in this hard-edged Western set in rural Australia in the 1880s. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is a criminal living in the outback. He and his two brothers, Arthur (Danny Huston) and Mikey (Richard Wilson), are on the run from the law for Read More

5/5/06
Two Brothers

Actors: Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Moussa Maaskri

Synopsis: Like The Bear, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's acclaimed animal picture released 15 years prior, Two Brothers offers a family-friendly epic as told through the eyes of its four-legged protagonists, who, in this case, are sibling tiger cubs Koumal and Sangha. Though a life in the jungles of French Read More

6/25/04
A Slipping-Down Life

Actors: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Making its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, this story adapted for the screen and directed by first-timer Toni Kalem is based on the Anne Tyler novel of the same name. The story deals with finding love in a dead-end life. Evie (Lili Taylor) is a loner, living with her widowed Read More

5/14/04
Brand New World

Actors: Guy Pearce, Julie Cox, Sammi Davis, Twiggy Lawson, Emily Lloyd

2004
The Hard Word

Actors: Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson

Synopsis: Three brothers who would argue that crime does pay have a hard time getting their fair share of the proceeds in this witty action thriller from Australia. Dale Twentyman (Guy Pearce) and his brothers, Mal (Damien Richardson) and Shane (Joel Edgerton), are serving time together in prison for Read More

6/13/03
Till Human Voices Wake Us

Actors: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Frank Gallacher, Lindley Joyner, Brooke Harman

Synopsis: Young adolescent Sam Franks (Lindley Joyner) spends his summers away from school with his physician father (Peter Curtin), whose schedule barely allows for quality father-son time. Therefore, Sam idles away most of his time with neighbor Maurie Lewis (Frank Gallacher) and Maurie's handicapped Read More

2/21/03
The Time Machine

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory, Phyllida Law

Synopsis: The classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells becomes this big-budget adventure directed by the author's great-grandson Simon Wells. Guy Pearce stars as Alexander Hartdegen, a scientist, professor, and inventor in 1895 New York City who believes that time travel is possible. The sudden and Read More

3/8/02
The Count of Monte Cristo

Actors: James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk, Richard Harris, Luis Guzman

Synopsis: The classic tale of swashbuckling adventure by the senior Alexandre Dumas comes to the screen in its umpteenth incarnation, this time from Kevin Reynolds, directing his first feature in five years. James Caviezel stars as Edmond Dantes, an honest sailor who plans to marry his beautiful lover Read More

1/25/02
Memento

Actors: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: A man is determined to find justice after the loss of a loved one, even though he is incapable of fully remembering the crime, in this offbeat thriller. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a man who is struggling to put his life back together after the brutal rape and murder of his wife. But Leonard's Read More

3/16/01
Rules of Engagement

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Bruce Greenwood, Blair Underwood

Synopsis: In this drama, two U.S. Marines who stood side by side on the field of battle are reunited in a court of law. Attorney Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) once aspired to a career as an officer, but a serious injury in Vietnam put an end to his military future, leaving him bitter and resentful. Col. Read More

4/7/00
Ravenous

Actors: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, John Spencer

Synopsis: In 1847, many Americans made the journey across our continent in search of gold. Many failed to complete the journey or see their dreams come to light. Capt. John Boyd (Guy Pearce) found his way here thanks to an act of cowardice during the Mexican-American War; he has been banished to a desolate Read More

3/19/99
L.A. Confidential

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of Read More

1997
Dating the Enemy

Synopsis: A pair of disparate battling lovers get a chance to live in each other's shoes in this lively Australian sex comedy. Though they have been together over a year, Tash and Brett have reached a point where they believe that neither understands the other. Tash is a serious, highly intelligent science Read More

1996
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Actors: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick

Synopsis: The usually menacing British actor Terence Stamp does a complete turnaround as Bernadette, an aging transsexual who tours the backwaters of Australia with her stage partners, Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and Adam/Felicia (Guy Pearce). Their act, well-known in Sydney, involves wearing lots of makeup and Read More

1994
Flynn

Actors: Guy Pearce, Steven Berkoff, Claudia Karvan, John Savage

Synopsis: Errol Flynn (1909-1959) was the son of a highly respected Australian scientist, and was given the opportunity to have an excellent education. However, his athletic and restless spirit caused him to get into trouble constantly, and he soon bailed out of school to go on and have a series of amazing Read More

1993
Hunting

Actors: John Savage, Kerry Armstrong, Jeffrey Thomas, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Rigg

Synopsis: A humble but beautiful secretary tires of her husband's eternal depression and embarks upon an affair with a dashing media magnate in this melodrama. The woman is at first dazzled by the man's wealth, charisma, and sexual prowess and pays no heed to the darker side appearing through the cracks of Read More

2/21/92
Heaven Tonight

Actors: John Waters, Rebecca Gilling, Kim Gyngell, Sean Scully, Guy Pearce

Synopsis: What happens when baby-boom rock 'n rollers, having had their fleeting moment of fame and notoriety, grow up, get other jobs, and have children of their own? For one thing, if this movie is to be believed, they envy their children's musical abilities and, when the youngsters get involved in their Read More

1990