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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.
Ben Mendelsohn
Brother Night
for Brother Night in Zatanna (HBO Original Series)
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Zatanna Zatara is a cynical, self-destructive illusionist performing cheap escape tricks in Las Vegas casinos. Haunted by the death of her father, the legendary magician Giovanni Zatara, who died burning on stage during a dangerous act, she rejects magic as illusion and numbs her grief with alcohol. Her life collapses when a series of ritualistic murders begin in the city, recreating her father’s old stage tricks. The investigation draws Detective Jim Corrigan, who turns to Zatanna for help when the crimes defy logic. At the scenes, she discovers occult symbols tied to her father’s hidden journals and realizes his death was not an accident, but a murder. The killer is Eugenio DiBella, a mobster and dark sorcerer known as “Brother Night,” who uses blood magic and sacrifice to weaken the Veil between worlds and summon an ancient entity called Allura. Giovanni Zatara was part of the Homo Magi, and his “tricks” were actually training in real magic, which he secretly tried to pass on to his daughter through backward spoken spells. Forced to confront her legacy, Zatanna reluctantly awakens her abilities, suffering severe physical consequences each time she uses real magic. She is pulled deeper into a hidden world of occult crime and uneasy alliances, including the dangerous John Constantine. In the final confrontation inside an abandoned theater, reality fractures as she battles Brother Night to stop Allura’s arrival. To save Corrigan and seal the Veil, Zatanna casts a devastating spell that mirrors the one that killed her father, risking her sanity to rewrite reality itself
