The Update - September 20, 2016
Ben Mendelsohn
Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn has won a Primetime Emmy Award for best supporting actor for his role as Danny Rayburn in the Netflix series Bloodline. Mendelsohn beat out Peter Dinklage – to whom he lost in the previous year – and Kit Harrington from HBO's wildly popular fantasy series Game of Thrones, among others. Mendelsohn's breakout role was in the 1987 Australian film, The Year My Voice Broke, but it was his turn as Andrew 'Pope' Cody in the critically acclaimed Animal Kingdom (2010), alongside co-stars Jacki Weaver and Joel Edgerton that thrust him in the Hollywood spotlight, eventually leading to a role in the upcoming Star Wars franchise film, Rogue One.
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