Editing Guy Pearce (section)

==Early life==
Pearce was born on 5 October 1967 in [[Ely, Cambridgeshire]], England.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ely-news.co.uk/People-and-Places/In-profile-Iron-Man-actor-Guy-Pearce-20130419161044.htm |title=In profile: Iron Man actor Guy Pearce |publisher=Ely-News.co.uk |date=19 April 2013 |access-date=19 April 2013| quote=Ely-born actor Guy Pearce...| archive-date=22 May 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130522031037/http://www.ely-news.co.uk/People-and-Places/In-profile-Iron-Man-actor-Guy-Pearce-20130419161044.htm}}</ref><ref name="filmref" /> His father, Stuart Pearce, was a [[Royal New Zealand Air Force]] pilot and [[RAF]] [[test pilot]], and his mother, Anne Cocking ({{Nee|Pickering}}), was an English schoolteacher.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/topic/Guy_Pearce/ |title=Topic: Guy Pearce |publisher=upi.com |access-date=17 February 2021 |archive-date=29 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329195405/https://www.upi.com/topic/Guy_Pearce/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He has an elder sister, Tracy.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Everybody feels fragile': Guy Pearce on fame, family pressures and fatherhood at 50|first=Emine|last=Saner|date=21 August 2018|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/aug/21/guy-pearce-everybody-feels-fragile-neighbours-the-innocents-netflix|access-date=12 February 2022|website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> When Pearce was three years old, the family relocated to [[Geelong]], Victoria, Australia. When he was eight years old, Pearce's father died in an aircraft accident.<ref name=filmref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/14/Guy-Pearce.html |title=Guy Pearce Biography (1967–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=13 April 2011 | archive-date=3 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215357/http://www.filmreference.com/film/14/Guy-Pearce.html| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19760806-0 Aviation Safety Network.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812022615/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19760806-0 |date=12 August 2018 }} Retrieved 4 February 2019.</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2025921,00.html | work=[[The Guardian]] | location=London | title=Portrait of the artist | date=4 March 2007 | access-date=4 May 2010 | first=Chrissy | last=Iley | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315084837/http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2025921,00.html | archive-date=15 March 2007 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/guy_pearce_biog.html |title=Guy Pearce biography |publisher=Tiscali.co.uk |access-date=13 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207090337/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/guy_pearce_biog.html |archive-date=7 February 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Pearce attended [[Geelong College]], and was a member of the Geelong Society of Operatic and Dramatic Arts (GSODA) Junior Players. At the age of 16, he was a competitive amateur [[bodybuilder]], leading to the title of Junior Mr. Victoria. He lived in [[Box Hill North, Victoria]] in the late 1980s while working on the Australian drama series ''Neighbours''. His first film appearance, while still at Geelong College, was in a Victorian Vice-Chancellors-funded film ''Life and Study at University'', produced and directed by Peter Lane of [[Deakin University]].