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Ben Kingsley

Born 1943-12-31
📍 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).

Filmography 200

Sonic the Hedgehog 4
as (voice)
2027
Young Washington
as Robert Dinwiddie
2026
Deep Water
as Rich
2026
Desert Warrior
as Emperor Kisra
2026
Wonder Man
as Trevor Slattery
2026
The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim
2025
The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
2025
William Tell
as King Albrecht
2025
The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz
2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
2024
Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai
2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
2023
Jules
as Milton Robinson
2023
Dalíland
as Dalí
2022
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self
2022
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
2021
Locked Down
as Malcolm
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
2021
The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
2019
Night Hunter
as Cooper
2019
The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
2019
Spider in the Web
as Adereth
2019
Watership Down
as General Woundwort (voice)
2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self
2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self
2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson
2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as Self
2018
Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann
2018
All or Nothing: Manchester City
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha
2018
An Ordinary Man
as The General
2017
Spielberg
as Self
2017
War Machine
as President Karzai
2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff
2017
Security
as Charlie
2017
Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)
2016
Collide
as Geran
2016
The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)
2016
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2015
The Walk
as Papa Rudy
2015
Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)
2015
Life
as Jack Warner
2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Tut
as Ay
2015
Self/less
as Damian
2015
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
2015
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)
2015
Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe
2015
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun
2014
Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb
2014
The Boxtrolls
as Snatcher (voice)
2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
2014
Learning to Drive
as Darwan
2014
Garfunkel and Oates
as Ben Kingsley
2014
Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
2014
War Story
as Albert
2014
The Physician
as Ibn Sina
2013
Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham
2013
Muse of Fire
as Self
2013
A Common Man
as The Man
2013
A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad
2013
Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery
2013
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator
2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
2012
The Dictator
as Tamir
2012
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
as Self
2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self
2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as Self
2012
Hugo
as Georges Méliès
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
2011
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator
2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Nizam
2010
Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg
2010
Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley
2010
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian
2010
Journey to Mecca
as Narrator
2009
Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus
2008
Elegy
as David Kepesh
2008
The Wackness
as Dr. Squires
2008
The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
2008
War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy
2008
TransSiberian
as Grinko
2008
The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)
2007
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
as Self
2007
The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus
2007
You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk
2007
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as Self
2006
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self
2006
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
2006
Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower
2006
Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi
2006
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006
BloodRayne
as Kagan
2005
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
2005
A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self - Guest
2005
Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan
2004
Thunderbirds
as The Hood
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
2004
Religion of the World
as Narrator
2004
House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani
2003
Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator
2003
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
2003
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator
2003
Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit
2002
Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni
2002
The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates
2001
The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)
2001
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
as Otto Frank
2001
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator
2001
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Narrator
2001
Sexy Beast
as Don Logan
2001
Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain
2000
What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon
2000
CNN Millennium
as Narrator
1999
Rove
as Self
1999
Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli
1999
The Confession
as Harry Fertig
1999
Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar
1999
The Sopranos
as Ben Kingsley
1999
Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry
1998
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd
1998
Religions of the World
as Narrator
1998
The Assignment
as Amos
1997
Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger
1997
HARDtalk
1997
Twelfth Night
as Feste
1996
Moses
as Moses
1996
Species
as Xavier Fitch
1995
Joseph
as Potiphar
1995
Joseph
as Potiphar
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
1994
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self
1994
Liberation
as Narrator
1994
Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern
1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini
1993
Dave
as Vice-President Nance
1993
Sneakers
as Cosmo
1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)
1992
Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky
1991
Necessary Love
1991
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)
1991
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)
1991
The War That Never Ends
as Pericles
1991
The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda
1990
The Children
as Martin Boyne
1990
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governor
1990
Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)
1990
The Making of Slipstream
1989
Slipstream
as Avatar
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal
1989
Lenin: The Train
as Lenin
1988
Lenin... The Train
as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
1988
Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich
1988
Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali
1988
Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson
1988
The Secret of the Sahara
as Sholomon
1988
Dispatches
1987
Maurice
as Lasker-Jones
1987
Silas Marner
as Silas Marner
1985
Turtle Diary
as William Snow
1985
Harem
as Selim
1985
To Be Hamlet
as Self
1985
Camille
as Duval
1984
Oxbridge Blues
as Geoff Craven
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Betrayal
as Robert
1983
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford
1982
Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi
1982
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
as Ivanov
1979
Dickens of London
as Dr. John Elliotson
1976
The Love School
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1975
Antony and Cleopatra
as Thidias
1975
Playhouse
as Ivanov
1974
Wessex Tales
as Lord Uplandtowers
1973
Hard Labour
as Naseem
1973
Fear Is the Key
as Royale
1972
Pebble Mill at One
1972
The Adventurer
as Pierre
1972
World in Action
as Re-enactment
1963
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Duval
1951
Bambi
as Self
1948
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
1944
The Way of the Wind