Ben Kingsley
male
Born on December 31, 1943 (81 years old)
From Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Known for Acting
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast Credits
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- 2023
- 2013
- 2011
- 2010
Shutter Island
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Dr. Cawley
2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
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Nizam
2010
Teen Patti
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Perci Trachtenberg
2010
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
as
Self
2010
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Aral, the Lost Sea
2010
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
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Narrator
2010
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as
Al-Jazari / Librarian
2010
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
Lucky Number Slevin
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The Rabbi
2006
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as
Self
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
as
Self
2006
Mrs. Harris
as
Herman Tarnower
2006
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as
Self
2006
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as
Self
2006
The One Show
as
Self
2006
- 2005
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- 2003
- 2002
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- 1972
- 2024
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Backstabbing for Beginners
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Pasha
2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as
Henderson
2018
Operation Finale
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Adolf Eichmann
2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
as
Self
2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
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Self
2018
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Inside The Operation
as
Self
2018
Watership Down
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General Woundwort (voice)
2018
All or Nothing: Manchester City
as
Narrator (voice)
2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as
Merenkahre
2014
The Boxtrolls
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Snatcher (voice)
2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
2014
Robot Overlords
as
Robin Smythe
2014
War Story
as
Albert
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
as
Self (archive footage)
2014
Walking with the Enemy
as
Regent Miklos Horthy
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
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Nun
2014
Learning to Drive
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Darwan
2014
Stonehearst Asylum
as
Silas Lamb
2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as
Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as
Self
2014
Garfunkel and Oates
as
Ben Kingsley
2014
- 2012
The Dictator
as
Tamir
2012
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
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Narrator
2012
A Therapy
as
Therapist
2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
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Self
2012
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
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Self
2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as
Self
2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as
Self
2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as
Self
2012
Honest Trailers
as
Trevor Slatterly (archive footage)
2012
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