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Since 2010, Mendelsohn has become a major player in Hollywood as a character actor in both blockbuster films ( The Dark Knight Rises (2012)) and critically acclaimed films such as Killing Them Softly (2012) and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012).
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Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn first rose to prominence in Australia with his breakout role in the 1987 coming of age drama film The Year My Voice Broke. He has gone on to co-star in the films Animal Kingdom (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Starred Up (2013).
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Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCredit67%No Score YetUnknown (Character)43%73%Jacob Holbrook (Character)53%63%Geoffrey Lammark (Character)85%86%De Guiche (Character)- 10 'Darkest Hour'
- 9 'Beautiful Kate'
- 8 'Cyrano'
- 7 'I Am Heath Ledger'
- 6 'Mississippi Grind'
- 5 'The Outsider'
- 4 'Slow West'
- 3 'Babyteeth'
- 2 'Animal Kingdom'
- 1 'Starred Up'
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84% Gary Oldman won the Oscar for his performance in Joe Wright's historical drama Darkest Hour. The revered actor plays Winston Churchill, with the plot addressing the 1940 war cabinet crisis where he refused to make terms with the Nazis in the early days of World War II. Mendelsohn plays King George VI, who provides invalua...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84% Mendelsohn stars in the 2009 psychosexual drama Beautiful Kate opposite Rachel Griffiths and Sophie Lowe. The plot follows Ned, a writer who returns home to spend time with his dying father. However, things get complicated by the presence of his seductive and manipulative twin sister, Kate. Beautiful Kateworks thanks to a...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85% Peter Dinklage stars in Joe Wright's 2021 musical romantic drama Cyrano. Based on the 2018 stage version of the seminal play Cyrano de Bergerac, the film follows the titular character, who uses his skill and wit to aid a young man in earning the love of the beautiful Roxanne, with whom he is desperately in love. Mendelsoh...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86% The 2017 documentary I Am Heath Ledger is a tribute to the late Heath Ledger, celebrating his legacy and life. It features interviews with several key figures in Ledger's life, including his family, Naomi Watts, Djimon Hounsou, Emile Hirsch, Ang Lee, and Mendelsohn, a close friend of the actor's. RELATED: The Best Documen...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91% Ryan Reynolds and Mendelsohn star in the 2015 dramedy Mississippi Grind. Mendelsohn plays Gerry, a man with a gambling addiction convinced that his new friend, the charming Curtis, is a good luck charm. The two journey to New Orleans to participate in a high-stakes poker game. Seamlessly blending the best out of the road ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91% Mendelsohn received critical acclaim for his stunning work in the HBO miniseries The Outsider. Based on the eponymous 2018 novel by Stephen King, The Outsider follows a supernatural force disrupting the investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy. Cynthia Erivo, Paddy Considine, and Jason Batemanalso star. Tense...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% John Maclean's Slow West is among the 21st century's best Revisionist Westerns. Kodi Smit-McPhee stars as a young Scotsman who ventures into the American West searching for his long-lost love, joined by bounty hunter Silas Selleck, played by Michael Fassbender. Mendelsohn plays Payne, the ruthless leader of SIlas' old gan...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% The 2019 coming-of-age dramedy Babyteeth stars Mendelsohn and Eliza Scanlenin her feature film debut. Based on the eponymous stage play, the plot concerns a teenager with cancer who develops a new lust for life after she falls in love with a small-town drug dealer. RELATED: Modern Coming-Of-Age Movies Destined To Become C...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% The 2010 Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom features an ensemble, including Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, and Mendelsohn. The plot centers on J, a young man recruited into an infamous crime family following his mother's death. However, when a cop gives him a chance at a new life, J must make a difficult choi...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99% David Mackenzie's 2013 prison crime drama Starred Up stars Mendelsohn opposite Jack O'Connell and Rupert Friend. The plot centers on a father-son duo who reunite in prison, leading to an intense and volatile relationship due to their explosive personalities. Anchored by Mendelsohn's brilliant performance, Starred Upis a s...
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Mendelsohn starred in the Netflix original series Bloodline (2015–2017), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016. In 2020, Mendelsohn starred in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider.
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Ben Mendelsohn traces the Mendelsohn family line back to the heart of Europe and discovers a thread of musical heritage in surprising quarters as well as a heart-rending tale of success, failure and heartbreak of Dickensian proportions.
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