Ben Kingsley
- Acting
- December 31, 1943 · 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
Filmography
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4 · Voice
- Young Washington · Robert Dinwiddie
- The Old Stories: Moses · Moses
- Deep Water · Rich
- Desert Warrior · Emperor Kisra II
- Wonder Man · Trevor Slattery
- The Thursday Murder Club · Ibrahim
- The King of Kings · High Priest Caiaphas (Voice)
- William Tell · King Albrecht
- The Killer's Game · Zvi Rabinowitz
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More · Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
- Poison · Dr. Ganderbai
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar · Imdad Khan / Croupier
- Jules · Milton Robinson
- Dalíland · Dalí, Executive producer
- Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry · Self
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings · Trevor Slattery
- Marvel Studios Assembled · Self
- Locked Down · Malcolm
- Marvel Studios Legends · Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
- The Medicine Buddha · Narrator (Voice)
- Night Hunter · Cooper
- The Red Sea Diving Resort · Ethan Levin
- Perpetual Grace LTD · Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
- Spider in the Web · Adereth
- Watership Down · General Woundwort (Voice)
- An Oral History of: Schindler's List · Self
- Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché · Self
- Inside the Operation · Self
- Who Killed British Cinema? · Self
- Intrigo: Death of an Author · Henderson
- Operation Finale · Adolf Eichmann
- All or Nothing: Manchester City · Narrator (Voice)
- Backstabbing for Beginners · Pasha
- An Ordinary Man · The General
- Spielberg · Self
- War Machine · President Karzai
- The Ottoman Lieutenant · Woodruff
- Security · Charlie
- Of Dogs and Men · The Caller (Voice)
- Collide · Geran
- The Jungle Book · Bagheera (Voice)
- Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC · Self
- The Walk · Papa Rudy
- Knight of Cups · Storyteller (Voice)
- Life · Jack Warner
- Unity · Narrator (Voice)
- Tut · Ay
- Self/less · Damian
- Lip Sync Battle · Self
- Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse · Drago (Voice)
- Robot Overlords · Robin Smythe
- Der Medicus · Ibn Sina
- Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb · Merenkahre
- Exodus: Gods and Kings · Nun
- Stonehearst Asylum · Silas Lamb
- The Boxtrolls · Snatcher (Voice)
- Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film · Self
- Learning to Drive · Darwan
- Garfunkel and Oates · Ben Kingsley
- Walking with the Enemy · Regent Miklos Horthy
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King · Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
- War Story · Albert
- The Physician · Ibn Sina
- Ender's Game · Mazer Rackham
- Muse of Fire · Self
- A Common Man · The Man
- A Birder's Guide to Everything · Lawrence Konrad
- Iron Man 3 · Trevor Slattery
- It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl · Narrator
- Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard · Self
- The Dictator · Tamir
- The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' · Self
- Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' · Self
- The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès · Self
- Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime · Self
- Hugo · Georges Méliès
- The Desert of Forbidden Art · Voice
- Aral, the Lost Sea