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Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his break-out role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987). He gained international attention for his starring role in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). He has since had roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Lost River (2014), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One (2016), Darkest Hour (2017), and Ready Player One (2018). Mendelsohn starred in the Netflix drama series Bloodline (2015–2017), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016. He played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood (2018). He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talos in the superhero film Captain Marvel (2019) and the Disney+ series Secret Invasion (2023). He has also starred in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider (2020). In 2024, he began portraying fashion designer Christian Diorin the television series The New Look. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Mendelsohn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The film is a Love Actually style film and based on the Band Aid song "Do They Know It's Christmas?". The film tells ten love stories: First: Julia Rosenberg from Florida heads to New York for the holidays and falls head over heels for James Larson, a Welsh entrepreneur, and plans to meet at the Empire State Building. Second: A singer, Fletcher Smith, who's about to turn 50 is anxious to hope that his new Christmas song will be on top of the charts. He has his longtime manager, Murray at his side. Third: African-American male, Jeremiah O'Connor is about to retire from being a construction worker to be with his family for Christmas. Fourth: Jesse Rogers leaves his girlfriend of three years after he discovers that she was having an affair with his best friend. He soon falls for Amber Miller, a flight attendant. Fifth: A househusband, Arnold Newman raises his three kids while his wife, Amelia is out working as an architect. Amelia begins to come home late at night, and Arnold suspects that she's having an affair. Sixth: Sarah Mitchell, a stewardess in her mid-30s, is raising her ten-month-old son by herself, after her son's father abandoned them. She later meets Bobby Marshall and falls for him. Seventh: Sarah's younger brother, Ethan lives in a high rise in New York, where he meets his neighbor, Laura Wright, who he quickly falls head over heels for. Eighth: Ladies man, Ray Wallace decides to travel to New York to get a chance at romance, after years of failure. Ninth: A design agency executive, Chloe Carrington, whose brother is in a rehab facility trying to recover from alcoholism, has little if any luck with men, until she meets film stunt double, Nick Bronson. Tenth: English ferryman, Walter Anderson has been on his own since the death of his wife three years ago, and with the help of his three kids, he manages to find love again with Empire State Building clerk, Emma Abbott All people from the stories meet in a large room in the Empire State Building
