Ben Mendelsohn

At 55 years old, Ben Mendelsohn has this physical status:

Born 3 April 1969, Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor best known for his role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and internationally for his role in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). Since then, he has appeared in films including The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Started Up (2013), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One (2016), Ready Player One (2018), and Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018).

Talos in Captain Marvel (2019) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). Mendelsohn appeared in Netflix's original series Bloodline (2015-2017), for which he was nominated by the Golden Globe Award and received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Early life and family

Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and the son of Carole Ann (née Ferguson) and Frederick Arthur Mendelsohn. His father, a Melbourne medical researcher, once headed the Howard Florey Institute, where he currently holds the rank of Professor Emeritus. While Ben and his two brothers, Tom and David, as well as his mother (deceased), lived in Europe and the United States for lengthy stretches of time and returned to Melbourne when he was in high school. He attended Mercersburg Academy in the United States before attending Heidelberg Primary School and Eltham High School and Banyule High (now Viewbank College). He was seized with drama because it was deemed a basic class. Mendelsohn was the only one of his friends to follow up with an audition for Crawford Productions that was being advertised.

He appeared in an episode of the Australian show Who Do You Think You Are?, which followed his paternal grandfather Oscar Mendelsohn, who was from a Jewish family. It also found guilty of crimes on his mother's side. He discovered traces to nineteenth-century Prussia while looking for a connection to composer Felix Mendelsohn, which was eventually dismissed. His paternal ancestors were among the first Prussian Jews to be naturalized in Schneidemühl, now Pia in modern Poland. He has ancestry from Greece, Germany, and the British Isles.

Personal life

Emma Forrest, a British-American journalist, married Mendelsohn in June 2012. He has a daughter with Forrest, born in 2014, and another daughter from a previous marriage, who is also an actor. In 2016, he and Forrest divorced.

He is a huge fan of video games, and he cites The Last of Us as his favorite.

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Career

He attracted attention in his breakout film, The Year My Voice Broke (1987), where he received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor after several early television performances, including The Henderson Kids alongside Kylie Minogue. His next big role was in The Big Steal (1990) and Spotswood (1992), co-starring Anthony Hopkins; this was followed by Metal Skin in 1994 and 1996 by Cosi and Idot Box; Cosi and Idiot Box. He appeared in two contrasting films, the Australian Mullet and the Hollywood Vertical Limitation, in 2000.

In 2005, he was preparing to appear Mark Antony in the Sydney Theatre Company-produced Julius Caesar, and he appeared in Terrence Malick-directed film The New World.

Mendelsohn appeared in the second (2006) and third (2006) seasons of Love My Way, and in 2008, he appeared in Baz Luhrmann's Australia. He appeared in the first season of Melbourne's Tangle TV series Tangle, which premiered on Showcase in 2009. He appeared in Alex Proyas' American science fiction film Knowing in 2009. Mendelsohn appeared in Beautiful Kate, directed by Rachel Ward, opposite Bryan Brown and Rachel Griffiths.

He appeared in Animal Kingdom in the film as Andrew "Pope" Cody, a criminal on the run from the law in Melbourne's notorious Underworld. He has received many accolades, including the IF Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the AFI's Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He was also named Actor of the Year by GQ Australia for 2010.

Mendelsohn was selected as one of the Who's Who in Australia's 2012 edition's Who's Who's Who's Who. Mendelsohn appeared in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and Robin Van Der Hook's The Place Beyond the Pines in 2012.

In 2012, he appeared in "Lover to Lover," a music video from Florence + the Machine. Vincent Haycock produced the film. He appeared in Girls as Jessa's father, played by Jemima Kirke in 2013. He appeared in the critically acclaimed Starred Up, directed by David MacKenzie, for which he received Best Supporting Actor at the British Independent Film Awards the following year.

Mendelsohn appeared on Bloodline, a Netflix original from Damages' creators in 2014. On March 20, 2015, the first season of the site premiered, and it was well-reced. Critics also lauded Mendelsohn's role on the series, resulting in a Primetime Emmy Award win and a Golden Globe Award nomination as well as a a Golden Globe Award nomination. In September 2016, Netflix announced that the show had been cancelled and that it would be out before its third season in 2017. Mendelsohn appeared in two episodes of Bloodline in Season 3 of Bloodline, with critical feedback.

During Australian singer Sia's Nostalgic For the Present concert tour in 2016, he appeared on stage as an onstage "stand-in" for her song "Breathe Me."

In Rogue One, the Star Wars franchise's Director Krennic played him. "It's a childhood dream come true" for him to be in a Star Wars film. In 2018, Nolan Sorrento appeared in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Ready Player One, a few years later. He appeared in The Land of Steady Habits, a film from 2018. Samuel L. Jackson and Brie Larson appeared in Talos in Marvel's film Captain Marvel. He reprised his role in Spider-Man: Far From Home, as well as in 2019.

Mendelsohn appeared in the lead role in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider, which premiered in 2020. It was revealed in December 2020 that he and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, as Talos, will be reprising his role as Talos in the forthcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion.

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