
Ben Kingsley
Born: 1943-12-31
Place of Birth: Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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).
Known For

Shutter Island

Schindler's List

Iron Man 3

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

William Tell

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Gandhi

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The Thursday Murder Club

Joseph

The Jungle Book

The Dictator

Hugo

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

War, Inc.

Sneakers

The Killer's Game

Security

Jules

The King of Kings

Unity

Species

Oliver Twist

Self/less

Young Washington

The Physician

Maurice

Ender's Game

BloodRayne

Parting Shots

Deep Water

Poison

Lucky Number Slevin

Thunderbirds

Elegy

Betrayal

Dalíland

Tuck Everlasting

Silas Marner

Testimony

Spooky House

Mrs. Harris

Slipstream

The Boxtrolls

Night Hunter

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

Turtle Diary

Stonehearst Asylum

Photographing Fairies

Journey to Mecca

Backstabbing for Beginners

Camille

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

The Wackness

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Hard Labour

The Last Legion

The Walk

Rules of Engagement

Dave

Collide

Romeo.Juliet

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

Intrigo: Death of an Author

The Ten Commandments

The Love Guru

Operation Finale

House of Sand and Fog

War Machine

Sexy Beast

Knight of Cups

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Bugsy

A Sound of Thunder

Alice in Wonderland

Liberation

The Confession

Harem

The Red Sea Diving Resort

Suspect Zero

Locked Down

A Common Man

Moses

The Ottoman Lieutenant

Spielberg

A Therapy

The Assignment

Death and the Maiden

You Kill Me

Robot Overlords

The Triumph of Love

TransSiberian

Teen Patti

Without a Clue

Twelfth Night

An Ordinary Man

Spider in the Web

Unlikely Heroes

Crime and Punishment

The War That Never Ends

Life

Learning to Drive

Pascali's Island

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Fifty Dead Men Walking

The Fifth Monkey

Islam: Empire of Faith

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood

The Way of the Wind

What Planet Are You From?

The Making of Sexy Beast

Walking with the Enemy

Fear Is the Key

To Be Hamlet

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

Who Killed British Cinema?

Lenin: The Train

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

50 Films to See Before You Die

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Cellini: A Violent Life

Muse of Fire

A Birder's Guide to Everything

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Desert Warrior

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later

Schindler

The Making of Slipstream

Weapons of Mass Distraction

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

The Children

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Of Dogs and Men

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

War Story

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land

Antony and Cleopatra

The Medicine Buddha

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

Necessary Love

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
