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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.
Ten years after graduating from high school, former geeky, bullied-outcast James has managed to put his life together and reinvent himself somewhat for the better. Still, the trauma brought on by the pain and humiliation from his school years remains as he is invited back for a reunion, though reluctant to return, James eventually decides to go, hoping he can finally bring closure to his past pain. While he's there, he is suddenly reunited with the only person who was ever nice to him in high school, his beautiful and kindhearted former English teacher Emma Trevelyan, whom he had a massive crush on back then, and what starts as a rekindled casual friendship gradually evolves into an intense, scandalous relationship. As Emma offers to help James with all his past school-related trauma, he ultimately discovers some deep, dark secrets about her he never knew...
