Can Aussie actor Ben Mendelsohn win a Golden Globe next week for his stirring role in Bloodline?

HE’S our sole hope in the TV component of this year’s Golden Globes. Can Ben Mendelsohn win for his stirring role in Bloodline?

Turning heads ... Ben Mendelsohn’s star is on the rise in Hollywood. Picture: Getty Images

AUSTRALIA’S sole hope in the television component of next week’s Golden Globes is acclaimed actor Ben Mendelsohn.

He’s up for the Best Supporting Actor award for his critically acclaimed role in the Netflix series Bloodline, a gritty drama about a prominent Florida family, in which he plays the bad seed Danny Rayburn.

But can the Melbourne-born star win it?

There’s stiff competition in that category, in the form of Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), Christian Slater (Mr Robot), Damian Lewis (Wolf Hall) and Tobias Menzies (Outlander).

Critically acclaimed ... Ben Mendelsohn has won big praise for his performance in the Netflix drama Bloodline. Picture: Supplied

Mendelsohn rose to fame locally in the mid-1980s in hit TV shows The Henderson Kids and Neighbours.

In the years since, the skilled character actor has enjoyed a string of roles in films like Cosi and hit shows from The Secret Life Of Us to Love My Way.

But it was his stirring performance in Animal Kingdom that put him on the map in the US.

“The film was a game-changer,” he told Hollywood Reporter last year.

Turning heads ... Ben Mendelsohn’s star is on the rise in Hollywood. Picture: Getty Images

“It didn’t change things immediately — for about six months to a year it was pretty quiet — but then it was like popcorn ... pop, pop, pop.”

This is Mendelsohn’s first Globes nomination. He was up for an Emmy in 2015 for the same role, but missed out on the honour.

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