Ben Kingsley
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
211
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-12-31 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Ben Kingsley
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
The Sopranos
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Shutter Island
Schindler's List
William Tell
Iron Man 3
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Bambi
Joseph
Wetten, dass..?
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Lip Sync Battle
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Sneakers
Marvel Studios Legends
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Jungle Book
The Killer's Game
Playhouse
The Oscars
The Dictator
Goldene Kamera
The Thursday Murder Club
The King of Kings
Unity
Security
Marvel Studios Assembled
Operation Finale
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Oliver Twist
Jules
Lucky Number Slevin
The Physician
Hugo
Self/less
Thunderbirds
Ender's Game
The Wackness
Camille
Gandhi
Testimony
Night Hunter
Without a Clue
Deep Water
Young Washington
Species
Suspect Zero
Entertainment Tonight
Schindler
War Story
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
War, Inc.
BloodRayne
The Assignment
The Last Legion
Rules of Engagement
Moses
Elegy
Tuck Everlasting
Poison
The Boxtrolls
Maurice
Romeo.Juliet
The Confession
Photographing Fairies
Rove
Spooky House
Mrs. Harris
Pebble Mill at One
Tut
Wonder Man
Silas Marner
Betrayal
Slipstream
Turtle Diary
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
War Machine
Stonehearst Asylum
Seitenblicke
Dalíland
House of Sand and Fog
Harem
Moïse
The Adventurer
Death and the Maiden
The Ottoman Lieutenant
Alice in Wonderland
Knight of Cups
The Love Guru
A Birder's Guide to Everything
Perpetual Grace LTD
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
A Sound of Thunder
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Watership Down
Backstabbing for Beginners
The Walk
Garfunkel and Oates
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
Spider in the Web
The Way of the Wind
What Planet Are You From?
The Children
The Fifth Monkey
Parting Shots
The Secret of the Sahara
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Crime and Punishment
Pascali's Island
A Common Man
All or Nothing: Manchester City
The Triumph of Love
Teen Patti
Joseph
Spielberg
Learning to Drive
Walking with the Enemy
The Red Sea Diving Resort
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Liberation
The Ten Commandments
Collide
Journey to Mecca
Twelfth Night
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Inside the Operation
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
Dave
Intrigo: Death of an Author
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
Muse of Fire
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Who Killed British Cinema?
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
You Kill Me
Locked Down
Peace Is Every Step
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
Hard Labour
Robot Overlords
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sexy Beast
Moses
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Bugsy
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Lenin... The Train
Playing Shakespeare
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
Wessex Tales
Dickens of London
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
An Ordinary Man
The Making of Slipstream
Oxbridge Blues
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
To Be Hamlet
TransSiberian
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Lenin: The Train
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
The Love School
The War That Never Ends
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
Necessary Love
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Desert Warrior
Life
Fortitude
50 Films to See Before You Die
Fear Is the Key
A Therapy
Inside the Actors Studio
Religion of the World
Cellini: A Violent Life
Islam: Empire of Faith
CNN Millennium
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
The Medicine Buddha
Of Dogs and Men
Antony and Cleopatra
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Religions of the World
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
The Making of Sexy Beast
Mary
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
Unlikely Heroes
A Force More Powerful
Aral, the Lost Sea
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
Islam: Empire of Faith
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
