
Ben Kingsley
Born December 31, 1943 · Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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).
Movies

Deep Water

Shutter Island

Schindler's List

Iron Man 3

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

The Dictator

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

The Jungle Book

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Ender's Game

The Killer's Game

Self/less

Young Washington

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

The Boxtrolls

The Walk

Lucky Number Slevin

Desert Warrior

Sonic the Hedgehog 4

Night Hunter

Sneakers

Hugo

Stonehearst Asylum

The Thursday Murder Club

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

William Tell

The Physician

The King of Kings

Species

The Last Legion

War Machine

Gandhi

Sexy Beast

Knight of Cups

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

Operation Finale

Oliver Twist

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

House of Sand and Fog

Rules of Engagement
TV Shows

Crown Court

Wetten, dass..?

Bambi

Playhouse

The Oscars

Lip Sync Battle

Marvel Studios Assembled

Pebble Mill at One

Marvel Studios Legends

TFI Friday

Dispatches

Entertainment Tonight

World in Action

The BBC Television Shakespeare

HARDtalk

Wonder Man

Rove

The Adventurer

Garfunkel and Oates

Perpetual Grace LTD

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Tut

Watership Down

Dickens of London

The Secret of the Sahara

Moses

Oxbridge Blues

Der Medicus

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Wessex Tales

The Love School

The Old Stories: Moses

Playing Shakespeare

All or Nothing: Manchester City

Lenin... The Train

Inside the Actors Studio

Joseph

Religion of the World

Islam: Empire of Faith

CNN Millennium

Religions of the World
More Movies

The Red Sea Diving Resort

The Love Guru

Poison

Joseph

A Sound of Thunder

What Planet Are You From?

Security

Dave

Tuck Everlasting

Collide

Death and the Maiden

Alice in Wonderland

Spider in the Web

Locked Down

Robot Overlords

Maurice

Dalíland

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Jules

Without a Clue

Thunderbirds

Bugsy

Elegy

Backstabbing for Beginners

Suspect Zero

Searching for Bobby Fischer

You Kill Me

BloodRayne

The Assignment

Learning to Drive

Walking with the Enemy

The Ottoman Lieutenant

Fifty Dead Men Walking

TransSiberian

Muse of Fire

War, Inc.

Spielberg

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

An Ordinary Man

50 Films to See Before You Die

Unity

Intrigo: Death of an Author

Pascali's Island

Twelfth Night

Fear Is the Key

An Oral History of: Schindler's List

A Birder's Guide to Everything

The Ten Commandments

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

Life

The Confession

The Way of the Wind

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Romeo.Juliet

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

The Wackness

The War That Never Ends

Slipstream

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

A Common Man

Parting Shots

The Triumph of Love

Spooky House

Liberation

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Lenin: The Train

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Of Dogs and Men

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel

Photographing Fairies

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

The Making of Sexy Beast

The Making of Slipstream

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Cellini: A Violent Life

Mrs. Harris

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

Unlikely Heroes

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

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

The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

Silas Marner

Turtle Diary

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood

Camille

Who Killed British Cinema?

To Be Hamlet

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

Journey to Mecca

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl

The Fifth Monkey

Crime and Punishment

Testimony

Harem

Teen Patti

War Story

Betrayal

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

The Children

The Life and Faith of CS Lewis

Antony and Cleopatra

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny

The Medicine Buddha

Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land

Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin

Necessary Love

Hard Labour

Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver




