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Ben Kingsley

31st December 1943 Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK Acting

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and received the Britannia Award in 2013. Born to an English mother and an Indian Gujarati father with roots in Jamnagar, Kingsley began his career in theatre, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and spending the next 15 years appearing mainly on stage. His starring roles included productions of As You Like It (his West End debut for the company at the Aldwych Theatre in 1967), Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Also known for his television roles, he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989), Joseph (1995), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), and Mrs. Harris (2006). In film, Kingsley is known for his starring role as Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), for which he subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For his portrayal of Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. He was Oscar-nominated for Bugsy (1990), Sexy Beast (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). His other notable films include Maurice (1987), Sneakers (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Death and the Maiden (1994), Twelfth Night (1996), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Elegy (2008), Shutter Island (2010), and Hugo (2011). Kingsley played the character of Trevor Slattery in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Iron Man 3 (2013), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the upcoming Disney+ series Wonder Man. He also acted in the blockbusters Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) and Ender's Game (2013). Kingsley lent his voice to the films The Boxtrolls (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016).

158 Movies 45 TV Shows 1 In Production 219 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Poison poster
Poison 29th September 2023 as Dr. Ganderbai
Jules poster
Jules 10th August 2023 as Milton Robinson
Life poster
Life 9th September 2015 as Jack Warner
Unity poster
Unity 12th August 2015 as Narrator (voice)
Hugo poster
Hugo 22nd November 2011 as Georges Méliès
Elegy poster
Elegy 8th August 2008 as David Kepesh
War, Inc. poster
War, Inc. 28th April 2008 as Walken / The Viceroy
Joseph poster
Joseph 10th April 1995 as Potiphar
Dave poster
Dave 7th May 1993 as Vice-President Nance
Bugsy poster
Bugsy 10th December 1991 as Meyer Lansky
Testimony poster
Testimony 1st November 1988 as Dmitri Shostakovich
Maurice poster
Maurice 18th September 1987 as Lasker-Jones
Harem poster
Harem 6th November 1985 as Selim
Gandhi poster
Gandhi 1st December 1982 as Mahatma Gandhi
Tut poster
Tut 19th July 2015 as Ay
Rove poster
Rove 22nd September 1999 as Self
Moses poster
Moses 7th April 1996 as Moses
Joseph poster
Joseph 16th April 1995 as Potiphar
Bambi poster
Bambi 1st January 1948 as Self
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 poster Coming soon
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 11th March 2027 as (voice)