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Ben Mendelsohn Biography
Became famous for his Emmy Award-winning role as Danny Rayburn in the Netflix series Bloodline. He is also notable for his portrayal of John Daggett in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, as well as for his performances in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Killing Them Softly and Animal Kingdom. Other film credits include Ready Player One and Robin Hood.
Early in his career, he appeared in the television series the Henderson Kids and won an Australian Film Institute Award for his supporting role in the 1987 feature The Year My Voice Broke.
He made an appearance in a 2012 Florence + the Machine music video.
The son of Frederick Arthur Oscar Mendelsohn and Carole Ann Ferguson, he grew up with brothers named David and Tom and spent his childhood in Australia, Europe, and the United States. His marriage to writer Emma Forrest began in 2012.
He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1992 film Spotswood.
Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor, who first rose to prominence in Australia for his breakout role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987).
After several early television roles, including The Henderson Kids alongside Kylie Minogue, he attracted notice in his breakout film, The Year My Voice Broke (1987), and won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor. His next major role was in The Big Steal (1990), and Spotswood (1992), co-starring with Anthony Hopkins; this was followed in 1994 by Metal Skin and in 1996 by Cosi and Idiot Box. In 2000, he was in two contrasting films, the Australian Mullet and the Hollywood Vertical Limit.
In 2005, he was preparing to play Mark Antony in the Sydney Theatre Company-produced Julius Caesar, and he was in the Terrence Malick-directed film The New World.
In 2007, Mendelsohn starred in the third season of the TV series Love My Way and in 2008, he appeared in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. He filmed the 10-part Melbourne series Tangle, which premiered on Showcase in 2009. In 2009, he appeared in the American science fiction film Knowing directed by Alex Proyas. The same year, Mendelsohn starred as Ned in Beautiful Kate, directed by Rachel Ward, opposite Bryan Brown and Rachel Griffiths.
In October 2009, he was featured in an episode of the Australian series Who Do You Think You Are?, which traced the ancestry of his paternal grandfather Oscar Mendelsohn who was from a Jewish family. It also found convicts on his mother’s side. Searching for a connection to composer Felix Mendelssohn, which was eventually dismissed, he discovered links to 19th-century Prussia. His paternal ancestors were among the first Prussian Jews to be naturalised in Schneidemühl in the province of Posen, now Piła in modern Poland. He also has Greek, German, and British Isles ancestry.
In 2010, he appeared in Animal Kingdom, starring in the film as Andrew “Pope” Cody, a criminal on the run from the law living in the notorious Melbourne Underworld. The role won him many awards, including IF Award’s Best Actor and the AFI’s award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He was also named by GQ Australia as Actor of the Year for 2010.
Mendelsohn married British-American journalist Emma Forrest in June 2012. He has one daughter with Forrest, born in 2014, and one from a previous relationship. He was divorced from Forrest in 2016.
In 2012, he appeared in Florence + the Machine’s music video for “Lover to Lover”. The video was directed by Vincent Haycock. In 2013, he guest starred in the TV series Girls as the father of Jessa, played by Jemima Kirke. The following year, he appeared in the critically acclaimed Starred Up, directed by David MacKenzie, for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the British Independent Film Awards.
Mendelsohn was selected as one of the subjects in the Who’s Who in Australia 2012 edition. In 2012, 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.
Since then he has had roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One (2016), Darkest Hour (2017) and Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One (2018). In 2017, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talos in Captain Marvel (2019) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).
In 2014, Mendelsohn joined the cast of Bloodline, a Netflix original from the creators of Damages. The first season premiered on the site on 20 March 2015 and was well received. Mendelsohn’s performance on the series was lauded by critics, resulting in a Primetime Emmy Award win as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. In September 2016, Netflix announced that the show had been cancelled, and that it would end after its third season in 2017. Season 3 of Bloodline received negative reviews, and Mendelsohn appeared in two episodes of it.
Mendelsohn starred in the Netflix original series Bloodline (2015–2017), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In 2020, Mendelsohn starred as the lead role in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider.
He portrayed the villain Director Krennic in the Star Wars franchise’s Rogue One in 2016. He called the opportunity to act in a Star Wars film “a childhood dream come true”. A couple years later in 2018, he played the role of Nolan Sorrento in Steven Spielberg’s science fiction film Ready Player One. He was cast in the role of Talos in Marvel’s film Captain Marvel alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Brie Larson. He reprised the role again for a brief cameo in Spider-Man: Far From Home, both in 2019.
In 2016, he appeared in video as an onstage “stand-in” during the Nostalgia For the Present concert tour of Australian singer Sia Furler for her song, “Breathe Me”.
In 2020, Mendelsohn starred as the lead role in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider.
What's Ben Mendelsohn Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Ben Mendelsohn Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
