He garnered Australian acclaim with his 1987 feature debut, The Year My Voice Broke. He has since appeared in Animal Kingdom (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Mississippi Grind (2015), and Rogue One (2016). Mendelsohn won the 2016 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work in Bloodline (2015–2017) on Netflix.
He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talos in Captain Marvel (2019). He reprised Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019 and will star in Secret Invasion on Disney+ in 2023. The 2020 HBO crime miniseries The Outsider stars him.
What Is Ben Mendelsohn’s Religion?
Ben Mendelsohn’s religion was found to be Jewish, and his mother’s side had convict relatives. The Australian program Who Do You Think You Are? examined his paternal grandpa Oscar Mendelsohn’s origins in October 2009. In search of a link to Felix Mendelssohn, this proved unsuccessful.
Research showed links to 19th-century Prussia. Mendelsohn’s paternal ancestors were early Prussian Jews who naturalized in Schneudemuhl, Posen (now Pila, Poland). The actor played Director Krennic in Rogue One in 2016, achieving a lifelong fantasy.
He then played Nolan Sorrento in Steven Spielberg’s 2018 science fiction blockbuster Ready Player One. The Land of Steady Habits was another film he appeared in that year. Mendelsohn later played Talos in Captain Marvel with Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson.
Mendelsohn Ethnicity
Besides being Jewish, Mendelsohn has Greek, German, and British ancestry. Ben prepared for his part as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2005. He also appeared in Terrence Malick’s The New World. The actress starred in Love My Way’s second and third seasons in 2005 and 2006.
Australia (2008), directed by Baz Luhrmann, featured him. Ben also led the 2009 Showcase Melbourne TV series Tangle. He starred in Alex Proyas’ science fiction picture Knowing that year. In 2009, Mendelsohn played Ned in Rachel Ward’s Beautiful Kate, opposite Bryan Brown and Rachel Griffiths.
Ben Mendelsohn Family Info
Ben married British-American journalist Emma Forrest in June 2012. The couple had a daughter in 2014. Ex-wife of Ben Mendelsohn Emma Forrest is an English film director, screenwriter, and author. Forrest’s novels are Nameddropper (1998), Thin Skin (2002), Cherries in the Snow (2005), and Royals, released in the UK on October 31, 2019. Mendelsohn has another actress daughter from a previous relationship. Unfortunately, Ben and Forrest split in 2016.
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