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Born · December 31, 1943 (80 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
0.0
2025
Imdad Khan / Croupier
7.2
2023
Milton Robinson
7.2
2023
Georges Méliès
7.2
2011
Nizam
6.3
2010
Perci Trachtenberg
4.1
2010
Dr. Cawley
8.2
2010
Fergus
6.4
2008
David Kepesh
6.3
2008
Dr. Squires
6.4
2008
Guru Tugginmypuddha
4.1
2008
Walken / The Viceroy
5.5
2008
Grinko
6.4
2008
Narrator (voice)
5.6
2007
Ambrosinus
5.6
2007
Frank Falenczyk
6.1
2007
Self
6.2
2006
Self
8.5
2006
The Rabbi
7.5
2006
Fagin
6.7
2005
Charles Hatton
4.9
2005
Benjamin O'Ryan
5.6
2004
The Hood
5.0
2004
Behrani
7.2
2003
Man in the Yellow Suit
6.6
2002
Hermocrates
6.2
2001
Specialist (voice)
7.0
2001
Self - Narrator
8.4
2001
Don Logan
7.0
2001
Ambassador Mourain
6.2
2000
Graydon
5.5
2000
Harry Fertig
5.7
1999
Major Caterpillar
6.3
1999
Amos
6.3
1997
Feste
6.9
1996
Moses
6.9
1995
Xavier Fitch
6.0
1995
Potifar
8.2
1995
Dr. Roberto Miranda
7.1
1994
Itzhak Stern
8.6
1993
Bruce Pandolfini
7.1
1993
Vice-President Nance
6.6
1993
Cosmo
6.9
1992
Meyer Lansky
6.4
1991
Martin Boyne
5.2
1990
Lenin
6.1
1990
Avatar
4.5
1989
Dr. John Watson
6.6
1988
Lasker-Jones
7.6
1987
Selim
4.6
1985
Self
0.0
1985
Mahatma Gandhi
7.6
1982
Royale
5.9
1972
Emperor Kisra
0.0
0.0
2025
Zvi Rabinowitz
6.7
2024
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai
7.4
2024
Dr. Ganderbai
6.9
2023
Dalí
6.2
2022
Self
10.0
2022
Malcolm
5.2
2021
Narration
6.0
2019
Cooper
6.6
2019
Ethan Levin
6.8
2019
Adereth
5.0
2019
Self
7.3
2018
Self
0.0
2018
Self
5.0
2018
Henderson
5.4
2018
Adolf Eichmann
6.7
2018
Pasha
6.1
2018
The General
6.3
2017
Self
7.6
2017
President Karzai
5.6
2017
Woodruff
6.2
2017
Charlie
6.3
2017
The Caller (voice)
0.0
2016
Geran
5.5
2016
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2015
Papa Rudy
7.0
2015
Storyteller (voice)
5.7
2015
Jack Warner
6.0
2015
Narrator (voice)
7.5
2015
Drago (Voice)
5.4
2015
Silas Lamb
6.9
2014
Self
4.8
2014
Darwan
6.2
2014
Self
0.0
2012
Narrator
6.4
2010
Al-Jazari / Librarian
5.5
2010
7.7
2007
Self
0.0
2006
Narrator
0.0
2005
Self
0.0
2005
Self
0.0
2003
Self
0.0
2001
Magistrate Porfiry
6.6
1998
Julian Messenger
5.1
1997
Cunda
9.0
1990
0.0
Ibrahim Arif
0.0
9.2
1991
Pericles
0.0
1991
Governatore
6.0
1990
Father Capulet (voice)
0.0
1990
Frank Ford
8.0
1982
Naseem
6.5
1973
King Herod
0.0
0.0
Trevor Slattery
7.5
2021
Self · (1 episode)
7.2
2021
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage) · (1 episode)
7.4
2021
Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown · (10 episodes)
7.2
2019
General Woundwort (voice) · (2 episodes)
6.8
2018
Narrator (voice) · (8 episodes)
7.2
2018
Bagheera (voice)
6.9
2016
Ay · (3 episodes)
7.2
2015
Damian
6.4
2015
Self · (1 episode)
6.4
2015
Merenkahre
6.2
2014
Nun
5.9
2014
Robin Smythe
4.8
2014
Archibald Snatcher (voice)
6.7
2014
Ben Kingsley · (1 episode)
7.0
2014
Regent Miklos Horthy
6.4
2014
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
2014
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
6.8
2014
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2014
Albert
4.4
2014
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
7.3
2013
Mazer Rackham
6.6
2013
Self
6.5
2013
The Man
5.7
2013
Lawrence Konrad
6.0
2013
Trevor Slattery
6.9
2013
Narrator
0.0
2012
Therapist
5.3
2012
Tamir
6.2
2012
Self
6.0
2012
Self
6.0
2012
Self
0.0
2012
Self
6.0
2012
Voice
4.7
2011
2.7
2010
Self
0.0
2010
Self
8.0
2010
Narrator
6.5
2009
Self
0.0
2006
Self · (1 episode)
4.6
2006
Herman Tarnower
6.0
2006
0.0
2006
Kagan
4.1
2005
Self · (1 episode)
6.8
2005
Self
0.0
2004
Self
6.5
2004
Narrator · (13 episodes)
0.0
2004
Narrator
7.3
2003
0.0
2003
The Great Zamboni
6.0
2002
Otto Frank · (2 episodes)
7.5
2001
Narrator · (3 episodes)
0.0
2001
Narator
9.0
1999
Narrator · (10 episodes)
0.0
1999
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
1999
Renzo Locatelli
6.1
1999
Ben Kingsley · (1 episode)
8.6
1999
Sweeney Todd
5.7
1998
Rev. Templeton
5.7
1997
Moses · (2 episodes)
0.0
1996
Potiphar · (2 episodes)
0.0
1995
Self · (1 episode)
7.4
1994
Self
0.0
1994
Narrator
8.0
1994
Freddie (voice)
5.1
1992
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1991
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1991
Simon Wiesenthal
6.6
1989
Lenin · (2 episodes)
6.0
1988
Dmitri Shostakovich
5.7
1988
Basil Pascali
6.4
1988
Sholomon · (4 episodes)
6.1
1988
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1987
Silas Marner
5.4
1985
William Snow
6.6
1985
Duval
5.6
1984
Geoff Craven · (1 episode)
5.0
1984
(9 episodes)
10.0
1984
Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)
8.1
1983
Robert
6.0
1983
Self
0.0
1983
Self · (1 episode)
3.7
1981
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
1981
Ivanov
0.0
1979
(1 episode)
5.2
1978
Dr. John Elliotson · (13 episodes)
6.5
1976
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · (6 episodes)
0.0
1975
Thidias
7.0
1975
Robert Cibrario · (3 episodes)
7.0
1974
Ivanov · (3 episodes)
7.0
1974
(1 episode)
6.0
1973
(1 episode)
0.0
1972
Pierre · (1 episode)
5.5
1972
Self · (1 episode)
3.5
1966
Peter Batterby · (72 episodes)
0.0
1965
Duval · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Trevor Slattery · (2 episodes)
0.0
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
7.0
1953
Self · (1 episode)
9.0
1948
Self - Nominee · (1 episode)
6.8
1944