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).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-12-31
Place of birth
Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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Cast
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
7.48
Oliver Twist
2005
6.75
Schindler's List
1993
8.60
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
7.05
Gandhi
1982
7.56
Death and the Maiden
1994
7.10
Sneakers
1992
6.90
To Be Hamlet
1985
0.00
A Sound of Thunder
2005
4.84
Joseph
1995
8.20
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
2006
7.50
Bugsy
1991
6.32
What Planet Are You From?
2000
5.43
Lenin: The Train
1990
6.20
Rules of Engagement
2000
6.30
House of Sand and Fog
2003
7.15
The Confession
1999
5.70
Dave
1993
6.64
Shutter Island
2010
8.20
The Ten Commandments
2007
5.60
Slipstream
1989
4.30
TransSiberian
2008
6.41
Sexy Beast
2001
6.99
Alice in Wonderland
1999
6.20
Suspect Zero
2004
5.50
You Kill Me
2007
6.12
Elegy
2008
6.29
Fear Is the Key
1972
5.80
The Love Guru
2008
4.10
Maurice
1987
7.60
Without a Clue
1988
6.70
War, Inc.
2008
5.53
Species
1995
6.00
Harem
1985
4.30
The Last Legion
2007
5.61
Teen Patti
2010
3.80
Desert Warrior
2025
10.00
The Triumph of Love
2001
6.00
Tuck Everlasting
2002
6.70
The Wackness
2008
6.41
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
7.06
Jules
2023
7.19
Thunderbirds
2004
5.00
The Children
1990
3.80
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
8.50
Twelfth Night
1996
6.93
Hugo
2011
7.17
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
6.32
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
8.40
The Assignment
1997
6.32
Iron Man 3
2013
6.90
Ender's Game
2013
6.59
The Killer's Game
2024
6.39
Schindler
1983
8.00
The Dictator
2012
6.22
A Force More Powerful
1999
9.00
Mrs. Harris
2006
5.72
Silas Marner
1985
5.60
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
4.70
Turtle Diary
1985
6.21
Parting Shots
1999
5.36
A Common Man
2013
5.75
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
5.20
Spooky House
2002
5.90
A Therapy
2012
5.35
Testimony
1988
4.50
Pascali's Island
1988
6.21
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012
0.00
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998
5.53
Betrayal
1983
5.91
Camille
1984
5.30
The Physician
2013
7.35
BloodRayne
2005
4.16
Aral, the Lost Sea
2010
2.70
The Boxtrolls
2014
6.70
A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013
5.73
Poison
2023
6.90
Liberation
1994
7.83
Muse of Fire
2013
6.50
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979
0.00
Self/less
2015
6.41
Robot Overlords
2015
4.83
War Story
2014
4.10
Antony and Cleopatra
1975
7.00
Unlikely Heroes
2003
7.30
Walking with the Enemy
2014
6.30
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
5.88
William Tell
2025
6.21
Photographing Fairies
1997
5.50
Journey to Mecca
2009
6.39
The Jungle Book
2016
6.90
Learning to Drive
2014
6.18
The Fifth Monkey
1990
9.00
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
6.85
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
10.00
The Walk
2015
6.99
Life
2015
5.97
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
4.88
Peace Is Every Step
2005
0.00
Deep Water
2026
0.00
Collide
2016
5.58
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
10.00
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
5.00
Crime and Punishment
1998
6.50
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
2006
0.00
Unity
2015
7.50
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
6.62
Knight of Cups
2015
5.71
Necessary Love
1991
9.20
The Making of Sexy Beast
2001
0.00
The War That Never Ends
1991
1.00
The King of Kings
2025
8.50
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
4.00
An Ordinary Man
2017
6.20
Of Dogs and Men
2016
0.00
War Machine
2017
5.60
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
6.11
Hard Labour
1973
6.50
Night Hunter
2019
6.58
Mary
0.00
Security
2017
6.32
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
6.83
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018
6.20
Spielberg
2017
7.57
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
5.30
Operation Finale
2018
6.69
Spider in the Web
2019
4.90
Dalíland
2022
5.97
Romeo.Juliet
1990
5.00
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
5.00
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
8.00
Inside the Operation
2018
0.00
Locked Down
2021
5.21
The Medicine Buddha
2019
7.30
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983
0.00
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006
0.00
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
0.00
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
1991
0.00
The Making of Slipstream
1989
0.00
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018
0.00
Young Washington
2026
0.00
Moses
1995
8.00
Fortitude
0.00