Ben Mendelsohn Biography

Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne Victoria Australia. He attended Heidelberg Primary School and Eltham High School. His father Frederick Mendelsohn is a prominent medical researcher who heads the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne. Ben and his two brothers Tom and David as well as his mother Carole (deceased) a registered nurse lived in Europe and the US for long periods of time and returned to Melbourne in high school. Mendelsohn is of German descent and was raised Jewish. He took drama because he thought it was an easy class and was the only one of his friends to follow up an audition for Crawford Productions which was being advertised.
Career After several early television roles including The Henderson Kids he attracted notice in his breakout film The Year My Voice Broke (1987) winning him the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor. His next major role was in The Big Steal in 1990 playing Danny this was followed by 1996's Idiot Box. In 2000 he was in two contrasting films the Australian Mullet and the Hollywood Vertical Limit.
Like many involved in Australian film Mendelsohn's relative longevity and occasional obscurity has been a blessing and a curse.

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