Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Tue 11 Mar 2014 17.32 EDT When it comes to Australian success stories, there are few who have had a career with the same longevity and garnered the same national love and pride as Ben Mendelsohn.From his early days in the TV classic The Henderson Kids, to his breakout moment in coming-of-age drama The Year My Voice Broke, Ben has been a staple of the local industry. Disney will take the money and run from Spies in Disguise⦠Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Carole Ann (Ferguson), a nurse, and Frederick Arthur Oscar Mendelsohn, a medical researcher. Credit: Lucasfilm-Disney The star of films such as 1987's The Year My Voice ⦠He is best known for his roles in The Year My Voice Broke, The Dark Knight Rises, Starred Up, Mississippi Grind, Rogue One, Darkest Hour and Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One.He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2017, as Talos in Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far From Home. With Ben Mendelsohn, Richard Mellick, Andrea Bentschneider. An Australian actor, who first rose to prominence in Australia for his role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and internationally for his role in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). Not often the lead, he can pop up in unexpected places, like Buckingham Palace, where he ⦠Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Carole Ann (Ferguson), a nurse, and Frederick Arthur Oscar Mendelsohn, a medical researcher. In 1987, he won an AFI award for best supporting actor in The Year My Voice Broke. He was 17. Directed by Catherine Marciniak. Voice cast. 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Returning to Melbourne in time to attend high school, he began acting in local theatre productions and gained roles on television series including The Henderson Kids. He was 17. The best rated item with Ben Mendelsohn on Netflix is "Killing Them Softly" and appeared on screen in 2012. Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohn is an Australian actor who voices Special Agent Mace in Infinity Train.. Compiling recommended viewing is tricky because, Mendelsohn may be the best thing in a small role but the film hasn't a lot to recommend it. Ben found out in the Australian version of the show Who Do You Think You Are? Tom Holland as Walter Beckett, a socially inept scientific genius who graduated from MIT at age 15 and designs gadgets. He inadvertently turns Sterling into a pigeon with a new invention of his and must now help Sterling change back to his human form. Ben Mendelsohn (b. Despite his prominence in Hollywood as a character actor known for playing villains and criminals, Ben Mendelsohn has been a leading man in Australia since starting acting as a teenager. The Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn has been active in the entertainment industry for almost 36 years now.He has appeared in well-known movies like The Dark Knight Rises, Darkest Hour, Captain Marvel, to name a few.. Loene Carmen (Freya) and Ben Mendelsohn (Trevor) star in The Year My Voice Broke. Spot the difference: Ben Mendelsohn (L) and Noah Taylor (R) have been mistaken for one another ever since they appeared in 1978 film The Year My Voice ⦠1969), actor, spent much of his early childhood abroad as his father, a leading medical researcher, worked in Europe and the USA. 4 .3 @shadowbeneathlondon @onefiercefox @xxstar-bluesxx 1969), actor, spent much of his early childhood abroad as his father, a leading medical researcher, worked in Europe and the USA. Ben Mendelsohn: '15 years old, out in the world, acting was all I had.' Trivia (33) His paternal grandfather was from a Polish Jewish/German Jewish background, while the rest of his ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish, Northern Irish, one eighth Greek, and more distant German. The Year My Voice Broke is a 1987 Australian coming of age drama film written and directed by John Duigan and starring Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen and Ben Mendelsohn.Set in 1962 in the rural Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, it was the first in a projected trilogy of films centred on the experiences of an awkward Australian boy, based on the childhood of writer/director John Duigan. Ben Mendelsohn (b. Despite his prominence in Hollywood as a character actor known for playing villains and criminals, Ben Mendelsohn has been a leading man in Australia since starting acting as a teenager. 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