“One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.”

Australian actor

Ben Mendelsohn is an Australian actor who first came to prominence in the late 1980s. Born Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn, he is known for his breakout role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and for later work in film and television. He drew wider international notice with his lead performance in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). Since then he has appeared in films including The Dark Knight Rises, Starred Up, Lost River, Mississippi Grind, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Darkest Hour, and Ready Player One.