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Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley

ActingBorn December 31, 1943 (age 82)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).

Filmography

2027Movie
2026
Young Washington

as Robert Dinwiddie

Movie
2026
Deep Water

as Rich

Movie
2026
Desert Warrior

as Emperor Kisra II

Movie
2026
Wonder Man

as Trevor Slattery

TV
2025Movie
2025
The King of Kings

as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)

Movie
2025
William Tell

as King Albrecht

Movie
2024
The Killer's Game

as Zvi Rabinowitz

Movie
2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)

Movie
2023
Poison

as Dr. Ganderbai

Movie
2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

as Imdad Khan / Croupier

Movie
2023
Jules

as Milton Robinson

Movie
2022
Dalíland

as Dalí

Movie
2021
Locked Down

as Malcolm

Movie
2021
Marvel Studios Legends

as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)

TV
2019
The Medicine Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2019
Night Hunter

as Cooper

Movie
2019Movie
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD

as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown

TV
2019Movie
2018
Watership Down

as General Woundwort (voice)

TV
2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2018Movie
2018Movie
2018
Operation Finale

as Adolf Eichmann

Movie
2018TV
2017
An Ordinary Man

as The General

Movie
2017
Spielberg

as Self

Movie
2017
War Machine

as President Karzai

Movie
2017Movie
2017
Security

as Charlie

Movie
2016
Of Dogs and Men

as The Caller (voice)

Movie
2016
Collide

as Geran

Movie
2016
The Jungle Book

as Bagheera (voice)

Movie
2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2015
The Walk

as Papa Rudy

Movie
2015
Knight of Cups

as Storyteller (voice)

Movie
2015
Life

as Jack Warner

Movie
2015
Unity

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2015
Tut

as Ay

TV
2015
Self/less

as Damian

Movie
2015TV
2015Movie
2015
Robot Overlords

as Robin Smythe

Movie
2014
Der Medicus

as Ibn Sina

TV
2014Movie
2014
Stonehearst Asylum

as Silas Lamb

Movie
2014
The Boxtrolls

as Snatcher (voice)

Movie
2014Movie
2014
Garfunkel and Oates

as Ben Kingsley

TV
2014
Walking with the Enemy

as Regent Miklos Horthy

Movie
2014TV
2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin

Movie
2014
War Story

as Albert

Movie
2013
The Physician

as Ibn Sina

Movie
2013
Ender's Game

as Mazer Rackham

Movie
2013Movie
2013
A Common Man

as The Man

Movie
2013Movie
2013
Iron Man 3

as Trevor Slattery

Movie
2012
A Therapy

as Therapist

Movie
2012
The Dictator

as Tamir

Movie
2011
Hugo

as Georges Méliès

Movie
2010
Teen Patti

as Perci Trachtenberg

Movie
2010
Shutter Island

as Dr. Cawley

Movie
2010Movie
2009
Journey to Mecca

as Narrator

Movie
2008Movie
2008
Elegy

as David Kepesh

Movie
2008
The Wackness

as Dr. Squires

Movie
2008
The Love Guru

as Guru Tugginmypuddha

Movie
2008
War, Inc.

as Walken / The Viceroy

Movie
2008
TransSiberian

as Grinko

Movie
2007
The Ten Commandments

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2007
The Last Legion

as Ambrosinus

Movie
2007
You Kill Me

as Frank Falenczyk

Movie
2006
Mrs. Harris

as Herman Tarnower

Movie
2006Movie
2005Movie
2005
BloodRayne

as Kagan

Movie
2005
Oliver Twist

as Fagin

Movie
2005
A Sound of Thunder

as Charles Hatton

Movie
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2004
Suspect Zero

as Benjamin O'Ryan

Movie
2004
Thunderbirds

as The Hood

Movie
2004TV
2003Movie
2003
Unlikely Heroes

as Narrator

Movie
2002
Tuck Everlasting

as Man in the Yellow Suit

Movie
2002
Spooky House

as The Great Zamboni

Movie
2001
The Triumph of Love

as Hermocrates

Movie
2001Movie
2001Movie
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence

as Specialist (voice)

Movie
2001TV
2001
Islam: Empire of Faith

as Self - Narrator

Movie
2001TV
2001
Sexy Beast

as Don Logan

Movie
2000
Rules of Engagement

as Ambassador Mourain

Movie
2000Movie
1999Movie
1999
CNN Millennium

as Narrator

TV
1999
Rove

as Self

TV
1999
Parting Shots

as Renzo Locatelli

Movie
1999
The Confession

as Harry Fertig

Movie
1999
Alice in Wonderland

as Major Caterpillar

Movie
1999
The Sopranos

as Ben Kingsley

TV
1998
Crime and Punishment

as Magistrate Porfiry

Movie
1998Movie
1998TV
1997Movie
1997
Photographing Fairies

as Rev. Templeton

Movie
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction

as Julian Messenger

Movie
1997TV
1996Movie
1996
Moses

as Moses

TV
1995
Species

as Xavier Fitch

Movie
1995
Joseph

as Potiphar

TV
1995
Joseph

as Potiphar

Movie
1994
Death and the Maiden

as Dr. Roberto Miranda

Movie
1994
Liberation

as Narrator

Movie
1993
Schindler's List

as Itzhak Stern

Movie
1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer

as Bruce Pandolfini

Movie
1993
Dave

as Vice-President Nance

Movie
1992
Sneakers

as Cosmo

Movie
1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.

as Freddie (voice)

Movie
1991
Bugsy

as Meyer Lansky

Movie
1991Movie
1991Movie
1991Movie
1990Movie
1990
The Children

as Martin Boyne

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Romeo.Juliet

as Father Capulet (voice)

Movie
1989
Slipstream

as Avatar

Movie
1988Movie
1988
Lenin... The Train

as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

TV
1988
Testimony

as Dmitri Shostakovich

Movie
1988
Pascali's Island

as Basil Pascali

Movie
1988
Without a Clue

as Dr. John Watson

Movie
1988TV
1987TV
1987
Maurice

as Lasker-Jones

Movie
1985
Silas Marner

as Silas Marner

Movie
1985
Turtle Diary

as William Snow

Movie
1985
Harem

as Selim

Movie
1985Movie
1984
Camille

as Duval

Movie
1984
Oxbridge Blues

as Geoff Craven

TV
1984TV
1983
Betrayal

as Robert

Movie
1982Movie
1982
Gandhi

as Mahatma Gandhi

Movie
1981TV
1978
Thank You, Comrades

as Roberto Cibrario

Movie
1977
The Velvet Glove

as Chakravarti

TV
1976
Dickens of London

as Dr. John Elliotson

TV
1975
The Love School

as Dante Gabriel Rossetti

TV
1975Movie
1974
Playhouse

as Ivanov

TV
1973
Wessex Tales

as Lord Uplandtowers

TV
1973
Hard Labour

as Naseem

Movie
1972Movie
1972TV
1963
World in Action

as Re-enactment

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self - Presenter

TV
1951TV
1948
Bambi

as Self

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Audience Member

TV
Mary

as King Herod

Movie
Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayDecember 31, 1943
Place of BirthSnainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Popularity3.2