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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.
Guy Pearce
Lex Luthor
for Lex Luthor in Superman: Heart of Steel (2014)
Suggested by smurphys_law
After Superman has stopped "The Kryptonian Invasion" Superman has become larger and respected amongst the people of Metropolis and beyond and Lex Luthor's campaign to run for President grows in popularity, although behind the scenes Lex had discovered a strange mineral that glows green with radiation after the events of The Kryptonian Invasion and after some experimenting he discovers that exposure the mineral sickens and weakens Kryptonian DNA and labels the mineral as "Kryptonite" around the the same time respected military solider John Corben has returned from a mission and has reconnected with former friend Lois Lane, John doesn't love Superman as much as the rest of the world since he feels he should use his abilities to interfere with war and after an incident involving the criminal dubbed "The Atomic Skull" that left John severely injured, his dislike for Superman only grows and Lex Luthor offers John to take part in an experiment to place his mind into a mechanical body that's powered by a heart made of "Kryptonite" and made of an indestructible metal alloy known as "Metallo" and this will allow him to take vengeance on Superman.
