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Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor and musician. He has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a nomination for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. He started his career portraying Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours (1986–1989). Pearce received international attention for his breakout role in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). Subsequently, he starred as Ed Exley in Curtis Hanson's crime noir L.A. Confidential (1997) and a man suffering short-term memory loss in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Memento (2000). He also acted in The Time Machine (2002), Bedtime Stories (2008), The Road (2009), The Hurt Locker (2009), The King's Speech (2010), and Lawless (2012). He portrayed Peter Weyland in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), Aldrich Killian in the Marvel action film Iron Man 3 (2013) and William Cecil in the biopic Mary Queen of Scots (2018). In Australian cinema, Pearce has acted in The Proposition (2005), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014). For his performance in The Brutalist(2024), he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since 2012, he has played the title role in the TV adaptations of the Jack Irish stories by Australian crime writer Peter Temple. Pearce starred in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown. The former won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor.
The French Riviera sparkled under a golden sun as Jack Callahan arrived in Nice hoping for a quiet getaway. Across the Côte d’Azur, Milo “Sugar” Romano, a sharp-witted former con artist, was plotting a daring heist: a legendary jewel called The Sapphire of Saint-Tropez, displayed at a glamorous Riviera gala. To pull it off, he enlisted Vince Russo and Leo “Lucky” Moretti, master gamblers and drivers. Henri Taboureau, a lovable, absent-minded French mechanic, restores a vintage yacht. Fate or pure chaos swept him into the unfolding schemes, his bungled repairs inadvertently thwarting and aiding the would-be thieves alike. In the midst of it all, Forrest King, a legendary Riviera thief in golden years, prepared to charm his way through the gala for a final heist, oblivious to the competition closing in from every direction. Rico Blaze, a flamboyant celebrity host, broadcast the gala live, his antics unintentionally complicating the thieves’ plans. Jack found himself falling for Clara Bellemont, a sophisticated heiress with secrets of her own, while Henri’s clumsy antics triggered a series of misunderstandings, flirtations, and accidental heroics. Near arrests, mistaken identities, and comical mishaps unfolded on the Riviera’s sun-drenched streets. Late at night in Monte Carlo, all schemes collided. In a dazzling scenes of clever escapes, speedboat chases, and last-minute improvisations, Jack and Clara finally slipped away aboard a restored vintage speedboat, the jewel safe.
