Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn was born on 3 April 1969 and is an Australian actor.
22 Facts About Ben Mendelsohn
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Ben Mendelsohn first rose to prominence in Australia for his breakout role in The Year My Voice Broke and since then he has had roles in films such as Animal Kingdom, The Dark Knight Rises, Starred Up, Mississippi Grind, Rogue One, Darkest Hour and Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One.
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Ben Mendelsohn joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talos in the superhero film Captain Marvel, reprising the role in Spider-Man: Far From Home and the upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion.
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In 2020, Ben Mendelsohn starred in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider.
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Ben Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Carole Ann and Frederick Arthur Oscar Ben Mendelsohn.
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Ben Mendelsohn's father is a prominent medical researcher who previously headed the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne, where he maintains the status of Professor Emeritus.
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Ben Mendelsohn attended Mercersburg Academy in the US before attending Heidelberg Primary School and Eltham High School and Banyule High.
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Ben Mendelsohn took drama because he thought it was an easy class.
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Ben Mendelsohn was the only one of his friends to follow up with an audition for Crawford Productions that was being advertised.
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Ben Mendelsohn starred in the second and third season of the TV series Love My Way, and in 2008, he appeared in Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
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Ben Mendelsohn starred in the first season of the Melbourne TV series Tangle, which premiered on Showcase in 2009.
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Ben Mendelsohn was named by GQ Australia as Actor of the Year for 2010.
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Ben Mendelsohn was selected as one of the subjects in the Who's Who in Australia 2012 edition.
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In 2012, Ben Mendelsohn played the supporting roles of John Daggett in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and Robin Van Der Hook in Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines.
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In 2014, Ben Mendelsohn joined the cast of Bloodline, a Netflix original from the creators of Damages.
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Season 3 of Bloodline received negative reviews, and Ben Mendelsohn appeared in two episodes of it.
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Ben Mendelsohn portrayed the villain Director Krennic in the Star Wars franchise's Rogue One in 2016.
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Ben Mendelsohn called the opportunity to act in a Star Wars film "a childhood dream come true".
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Ben Mendelsohn was cast in the role of Talos in Marvel's film Captain Marvel alongside Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson.
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Ben Mendelsohn reprised the role for a brief cameo in Spider-Man: Far From Home, in 2019.
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In 2020, Ben Mendelsohn starred in the lead role in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider.
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Ben Mendelsohn has a daughter with Forrest, born in 2014, and another daughter from a previous relationship, who is an actor.