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Ben Kingsley

Born · December 31, 1943 (80 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Bio

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.

Known for

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

Self

6.2

2006

50 Films to See Before You Die

Self

8.5

2006

Lucky Number Slevin

The Rabbi

7.5

2006

Oliver Twist

Fagin

6.7

2005

A Sound of Thunder

Charles Hatton

4.9

2005

Suspect Zero

Benjamin O'Ryan

5.6

2004

Thunderbirds

The Hood

5.0

2004

House of Sand and Fog

Behrani

7.2

2003

Tuck Everlasting

Man in the Yellow Suit

6.6

2002

The Triumph of Love

Hermocrates

6.2

2001

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Specialist (voice)

7.0

2001

Islam: Empire of Faith

Self - Narrator

8.4

2001

Sexy Beast

Don Logan

7.0

2001

Rules of Engagement

Ambassador Mourain

6.2

2000

What Planet Are You From?

Graydon

5.5

2000

The Confession

Harry Fertig

5.7

1999

Alice in Wonderland

Major Caterpillar

6.3

1999

The Assignment

Amos

6.3

1997

Twelfth Night

Feste

6.9

1996

Dr. Roberto Miranda

7.1

1994

Schindler's List

Itzhak Stern

8.6

1993

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Bruce Pandolfini

7.1

1993

Dave

Vice-President Nance

6.6

1993

Sneakers

Cosmo

6.9

1992

Bugsy

Meyer Lansky

6.4

1991

The Children

Martin Boyne

5.2

1990

Lenin: The Train

Lenin

6.1

1990

Slipstream

Avatar

4.5

1989

Without a Clue

Dr. John Watson

6.6

1988

Maurice

Lasker-Jones

7.6

1987

Harem

Selim

4.6

1985

To Be Hamlet

Self

0.0

1985

Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

7.6

1982

Fear Is the Key

Royale

5.9

1972

Desert Warrior

Emperor Kisra

0.0

William Tell

0.0

2025

The Killer's Game

Zvi Rabinowitz

6.7

2024

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai

7.4

2024

Poison

Dr. Ganderbai

6.9

2023

Dalíland

Dalí

6.2

2022

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

Self

10.0

2022

Locked Down

Malcolm

5.2

2021

The Medicine Buddha

Narration

6.0

2019

Night Hunter

Cooper

6.6

2019

The Red Sea Diving Resort

Ethan Levin

6.8

2019

Spider in the Web

Adereth

5.0

2019

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Self

7.3

2018

Inside The Operation

Self

0.0

2018

Who Killed British Cinema?

Self

5.0

2018

Intrigo: Death of an Author

Henderson

5.4

2018

Operation Finale

Adolf Eichmann

6.7

2018

Backstabbing for Beginners

Pasha

6.1

2018

An Ordinary Man

The General

6.3

2017

Spielberg

Self

7.6

2017

War Machine

President Karzai

5.6

2017

The Ottoman Lieutenant

Woodruff

6.2

2017

Security

Charlie

6.3

2017

Of Dogs and Men

The Caller (voice)

0.0

2016

Collide

Geran

5.5

2016

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

Self (archive footage)

0.0

2015

The Walk

Papa Rudy

7.0

2015

Knight of Cups

Storyteller (voice)

5.7

2015

Life

Jack Warner

6.0

2015

Unity

Narrator (voice)

7.5

2015

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

Drago (Voice)

5.4

2015

Stonehearst Asylum

Silas Lamb

6.9

2014

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

Self

4.8

2014

Learning to Drive

Darwan

6.2

2014

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

Self

0.0

2012

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Narrator

6.4

2010

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

Al-Jazari / Librarian

5.5

2010

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

7.7

2007

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood

The Thursday Murder Club

Ibrahim Arif

0.0

Necessary Love

9.2

1991

The War That Never Ends

Pericles

0.0

1991

Cellini: A Violent Life

Governatore

6.0

1990

Romeo.Juliet

Father Capulet (voice)

0.0

1990

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Frank Ford

8.0

1982

Hard Labour

Naseem

6.5

1973

Mary

King Herod

0.0

The Way of the Wind

0.0

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Trevor Slattery

7.5

2021

Marvel Studios Assembled

Self · (1 episode)

7.2

2021

Marvel Studios Legends

Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage) · (1 episode)

7.4

2021

Perpetual Grace LTD

Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown · (10 episodes)

7.2

2019

Watership Down

General Woundwort (voice) · (2 episodes)

6.8

2018

All or Nothing: Manchester City

Narrator (voice) · (8 episodes)

7.2

2018

The Jungle Book

Bagheera (voice)

6.9

2016

Tut

Ay · (3 episodes)

7.2

2015

Self/less

Damian

6.4

2015

Lip Sync Battle

Self · (1 episode)

6.4

2015

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Merenkahre

6.2

2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Nun

5.9

2014

Robot Overlords

Robin Smythe

4.8

2014

The Boxtrolls

Archibald Snatcher (voice)

6.7

2014

Garfunkel and Oates

Ben Kingsley · (1 episode)

7.0

2014

Walking with the Enemy

Regent Miklos Horthy

6.4

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self · (1 episode)

5.5

2014

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin

6.8

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage)

7.0

2014

War Story

Albert

4.4

2014

The Physician

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

7.3

2013

Ender's Game

Mazer Rackham

6.6

2013

Muse of Fire

Self

6.5

2013

A Common Man

The Man

5.7

2013

A Birder's Guide to Everything

6.0

2012

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Voice

4.7

2011

Aral, the Lost Sea

Self

6.5

2004

Religion of the World

Narrator · (13 episodes)

0.0

2004

Unlikely Heroes

Narrator

7.3

2003

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

0.0

2003

Spooky House

The Great Zamboni

6.0

2002

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Otto Frank · (2 episodes)

7.5

2001

Islam: Empire of Faith

8.0

1994

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

Freddie (voice)

5.1

1992

Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver

Narrator (voice)

0.0

1991

Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin

Narrator (voice)

0.0

1991

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Simon Wiesenthal

6.6

1989

Lenin... The Train

Lenin · (2 episodes)

6.0

1988

Testimony

Dmitri Shostakovich

Duval

5.6

1984

Oxbridge Blues

Geoff Craven · (1 episode)

5.0

1984

Playing Shakespeare

(9 episodes)

10.0

1984

Schindler

Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)

8.1

1983

Betrayal

Robert

6.0

1983

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

Self

0.0

1983

Entertainment Tonight

Self · (1 episode)

3.7

1981

Wetten, dass..?

Self · (1 episode)

5.5

1981

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Ivanov

0.0

1979

BBC Television Shakespeare

(1 episode)

5.2

1978

Dickens Of London

Dr. John Elliotson · (13 episodes)

6.5

1976

The Love School

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · (6 episodes)

0.0

1975

Antony and Cleopatra

Thidias

7.0

1975

Playhouse

Robert Cibrario · (3 episodes)

7.0

1974

Playhouse

Ivanov · (3 episodes)

7.0

1974

Wessex Tales

(1 episode)

6.0

1973

Pebble Mill at One

(1 episode)

0.0

1972

The Adventurer

Pierre · (1 episode)

5.5

1972

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Self · (1 episode)

3.5

1966

Orlando

Peter Batterby · (72 episodes)

0.0

1965

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Duval · (1 episode)

8.7

1951

Wonder Man

Trevor Slattery · (2 episodes)

0.0

The Oscars

Self - Presenter · (1 episode)

7.0

1953

Bambi Awards

Self · (1 episode)

9.0

1948

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee · (1 episode)

6.8

1944