Ben Mendelsohn

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ben Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor. Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Australia. He attended Heidelberg Primary School and Banyule 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. 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.