
Ben Kingsley
Biography
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).
Acting (160 movies)

Lucky Number Slevin
2006

Oliver Twist
2005

Schindler's List
1993

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001

Gandhi
1982

Death and the Maiden
1994

Sneakers
1992

To Be Hamlet
1985

A Sound of Thunder
2005

Joseph
1995

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
2006

Bugsy
1991

What Planet Are You From?
2000

Lenin: The Train
1990

Rules of Engagement
2000

House of Sand and Fog
2003

The Confession
1999

Dave
1993

Shutter Island
2010

The Ten Commandments
2007

Slipstream
1989

TransSiberian
2008

Sexy Beast
2001

Alice in Wonderland
1999

Suspect Zero
2004

You Kill Me
2007

Elegy
2008

Fear Is the Key
1972

The Love Guru
2008

Maurice
1987

Without a Clue
1988

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010

War, Inc.
2008

Species
1995

Harem
1985

The Last Legion
2007

Teen Patti
2010

Desert Warrior
2025

The Triumph of Love
2001

Tuck Everlasting
2002

The Wackness
2008

Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993

Jules
2023

Thunderbirds
2004

The Children
1990

50 Films to See Before You Die
2006

Twelfth Night
1996

Hugo
2011

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023

Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008

Islam: Empire of Faith
2001

The Assignment
1997

Iron Man 3
2013

Ender's Game
2013

The Killer's Game
2024

Schindler
1983

The Dictator
2012

Mrs. Harris
2006

Silas Marner
1985

The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004

Turtle Diary
1985

Parting Shots
1999

A Common Man
2013

Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
2012

Spooky House
2002

A Therapy
2012

Testimony
1988

Pascali's Island
1988

Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
2010

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012

The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998

Betrayal
1983

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014

Camille
1984

The Physician
2013

BloodRayne
2005

The Boxtrolls
2014

A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989

Poison
2023

Liberation
1994

Muse of Fire
2013

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979

Self/less
2015

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014

Robot Overlords
2015

War Story
2014

Antony and Cleopatra
1975

Unlikely Heroes
2003

Walking with the Enemy
2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014

William Tell
2025

Photographing Fairies
1997

Journey to Mecca
2009
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