Ben Mendelsohn

Born: April 3 1969
Where: Melbourne, Australia

The actor's big screen breakthrough was in the role of wise-cracking mountain climber Malcolm in the action thriller Vertical Limit.

After an early career on Australian TV, he won a best supporting actor Australian Film Institute Award for The Year My Voice Broke.

Subsequent roles included The Big Steal, Spotswood with Anthony Hopkins, Sirens with Hugh Grant and Vincent Ward's underrated Map of the Human Heart.

He has appeared in two David Caesar films - Idiot Box and the critically-acclaimed Mullett - as well as the part of a young Rupert Murdoch in Black and White.