Ben Kingsley
Acting
- Born:
- 1943-12-31
- Place of birth:
- 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
Young Washington
The Old Stories: Moses
Deep Water
לוחם המדבר
Wonder Man
The Thursday Murder Club
The King of Kings
William Tell
The Killer's Game
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Poison
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Jules
Dalíland
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Marvel Studios Assembled
Locked Down
Marvel Studios Legends
The Medicine Buddha
Night Hunter
The Red Sea Diving Resort
Perpetual Grace LTD
Spider in the Web
Watership Down
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Inside the Operation
Who Killed British Cinema?
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Operation Finale
All or Nothing: Manchester City
Backstabbing for Beginners
An Ordinary Man
Spielberg
War Machine
The Ottoman Lieutenant
Security
Of Dogs and Men
Collide
The Jungle Book
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
The Walk
Knight of Cups
Life
Unity
Tut
Self/less
Lip Sync Battle
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Robot Overlords
Der Medicus
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Stonehearst Asylum
The Boxtrolls
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Learning to Drive
Garfunkel and Oates
Walking with the Enemy
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
War Story
The Physician
Ender's Game
Muse of Fire
A Common Man
A Birder's Guide to Everything
Iron Man 3
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
The Dictator
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Hugo
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Aral, the Lost Sea
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Teen Patti
Shutter Island
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
Journey to Mecca
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Elegy
The Wackness
The Love Guru
War, Inc.
TransSiberian
The Ten Commandments
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
The Last Legion
You Kill Me
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
50 Films to See Before You Die
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
Peace Is Every Step
Oliver Twist
Mrs. Harris
A Sound of Thunder
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Suspect Zero
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Religion of the World
House of Sand and Fog
Unlikely Heroes
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
Tuck Everlasting
Spooky House
The Triumph of Love
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
The Making of Sexy Beast
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Islam: Empire of Faith
Islam: Empire of Faith
Sexy Beast
Rules of Engagement
What Planet Are You From?
A Force More Powerful
CNN Millennium
Rove
Parting Shots
The Confession
Alice in Wonderland
The Sopranos
Crime and Punishment
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
Religions of the World
The Assignment
Photographing Fairies
Weapons of Mass Distraction
HARDtalk
Twelfth Night
Moses
Film Independent Spirit Awards
TFI Friday
Species
Joseph
Joseph
Inside the Actors Studio
Death and the Maiden
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
Liberation
Schindler's List
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Dave
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
Sneakers
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Bugsy
Necessary Love
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
The War That Never Ends
The Fifth Monkey
The Children
Cellini: A Violent Life
Romeo.Juliet
The Making of Slipstream
Slipstream
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Lenin: The Train
Lenin... The Train
Testimony
Pascali's Island
Without a Clue
The Secret of the Sahara
Dispatches
Seitenblicke
Maurice
Silas Marner
Turtle Diary
Harem
To Be Hamlet
Camille
Oxbridge Blues
Playing Shakespeare
Goldene Kamera
Betrayal
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Gandhi
Entertainment Tonight
Wetten, dass..?
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Thank You, Comrades
The BBC Television Shakespeare
The Velvet Glove
Dickens of London
The Love School
Antony and Cleopatra
Playhouse
Wessex Tales
Hard Labour
Fear Is the Key
Crown Court
Pebble Mill at One
The Adventurer
Film '72
World in Action
The Oscars
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bambi
Golden Globe Awards
Mary
The Way of the Wind
Fortitude
Faith