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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…
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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).
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Ben Kingsley's Filmography
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4
as (voice)
Young Washington
as Robert Dinwiddie
Deep Water
as Rich
Desert Warrior
as Emperor Kisra II
The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim
The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
William Tell
as King Albrecht
The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
Jules
as Milton Robinson
Dalíland
as Dalí
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery
Locked Down
as Malcolm
The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
Night Hunter
as Cooper
The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin
Spider in the Web
as Adereth
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self
No Poster
Inside the Operation
as Self
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson
Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann
Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha
An Ordinary Man
as The General
Spielberg
as Self
War Machine
as President Karzai
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff
Security
as Charlie
Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)
Collide
as Geran
The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
The Walk
as Papa Rudy
Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)
Life
as Jack Warner
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
Self/less
as Damian
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)
Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun
Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb
The Boxtrolls
as Snatcher (voice)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
Learning to Drive
as Darwan
Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
War Story
as Albert
The Physician
as Ibn Sina
Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham
Muse of Fire
as Self
A Common Man
as The Man
A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad
Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
The Dictator
as Tamir
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as Self
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
as Self
Hugo
as Georges Méliès
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
No Poster
Aral, the Lost Sea
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Nizam
Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg
Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian
Journey to Mecca
as Narrator
Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus
Elegy
as David Kepesh
The Wackness
as Dr. Squires
The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy
TransSiberian
as Grinko
The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
as Self
The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus
You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as Self
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi
BloodRayne
as Kagan
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
No Poster
Peace Is Every Step
as Narrator
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower
A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan
No Poster
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
as Self
Thunderbirds
as The Hood
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani
Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator
Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit
Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni
The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates
No Poster
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
as Self - Interviewee
The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator
Sexy Beast
as Don Logan
Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain
What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon
No Poster
A Force More Powerful
as Narator
Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli
The Confession
as Harry Fertig
Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar
Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd
The Assignment
as Amos
Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger
Twelfth Night
as Feste
Species
as Xavier Fitch
Joseph
as Potiphar
Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self
Liberation
as Narrator (voice)
Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini
Dave
as Vice-President Nance
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
as Self / The King (voice)
Sneakers
as Cosmo
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)
Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky
Necessary Love
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)
The War That Never Ends
as Pericles
The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda
The Children
as Martin Boyne
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governor
Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)
The Making of Slipstream
Slipstream
as Avatar
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal
Lenin: The Train
as Lenin
Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich
Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali
Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson
Maurice
as Lasker-Jones
Silas Marner
as Silas Marner
Turtle Diary
as William Snow
Harem
as Selim
To Be Hamlet
as Self
Camille
as Duval
Betrayal
as Robert
No Poster
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford
Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
as Ivanov
No Poster
Thank You, Comrades
as Roberto Cibrario
Antony and Cleopatra
as Thidias
Hard Labour
as Naseem
Fear Is the Key
as Royale
The Way of the Wind
No Poster
Faith
as Sheikh Usman
Fortitude
No Poster
Mary
as King Herod