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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
The Saint 5
for The Saint 5 in The Salt Grows Heavy
Suggested by seagullfish23
The main character in The Salt Grows Heavy is a mermaid, but she’s no Ariel, lest you think this is one of those magical mermaid stories. The cover pretty much sums it up: this is a dark and gorey tale, and the mermaid eats people. If body horror isn’t your thing, this might not work for you. But Cassandra Khaw’s flawless, evocative writing is worth the price of admission, in my opinion. The mermaid’s tale is a sad one. She was claimed by a prince and dragged from the sea to become his wife. He cut out her tongue so she couldn’t speak and then made her eat it. But when her daughters are born, they attack and eat the prince, releasing the mermaid from her prison. And this is where our story starts. With the kingdom in shambles, the mermaid and her friend the plague doctor decide to leave together, not with a destination in mind, but rather to get as far from the kingdom as possible.
