Ben Mendelsohn

Over the past 25 years, Australia has watched Ben Mendelsohn grow up on screen to become one of the country’s leading character actors.

Throughout his career he had a tendency to play the bad boy larrikin or a man burdened with the baggage of a fractured family... a characterization that has often come very close to the truth of Ben’s own life.

Ben was born Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn, the oldest son of Frederick Mendelsohn and Carole Ann Ferguson.

His parents were divorced when he was about 6 years old. He lived with his Mum for a little while and when that didn’t work out he lived with his father and stepmother.

Ben is driven to discover if, as family legend suggests, he is related to the famous composer Felix Mendelssohn of “The Wedding March” fame.

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