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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: Revolution (2011)
Suggested by smurphys_law

After escaping The Phantom Zone, General Zod, Faora, Non, and a few other Kryptonians scout out to find the son of Jor-El which they managed to track down being on Earth, meanwhile on Earth Superman continues to thrive in the eyes of the public as criminals start to become more eccentric while Lex Luthor intends on starting a campaign to be President of the United States,as for Clark Kent's personal life he's reconnected with teenage love interest Lana Lang and childhood friend Pete Ross as he returns to Smallville for a holiday, but a now group of aliens from another plant who refer themselves as "Kryptonians" come to earth and the leader of the group that's known as "Zod" outs Superman as one of their own which Superman confirms, as Zod says they've come to make earth their new home but will do their best to coexist amongst the people of the earth, although he plans to eradicate all that have been a thorn in Earth's side even the likes of Lex Luthor who he knows schemes to do only benefit himself and will toss aside anything that doesn't help him get what he wants, Superman doesn't approve of Zod's way of dealing with this matter and after much disagreement Zod decides that Superman is against him and will act out his plans no matter the cost even if that means he has to take out the Last Son of Krypton.