Ben Kingsley
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).
Born: 31 December 1943
Played In
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
(voice)
Young Washington
Robert Dinwiddie
The Old Stories: Moses
Moses
Deep Water
Rich
Desert Warrior
Emperor Kisra II
Wonder Man
Trevor Slattery
The Thursday Murder Club
Ibrahim
The King of Kings
High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
William Tell
King Albrecht
The Killer's Game
Zvi Rabinowitz
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
Poison
Dr. Ganderbai
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Imdad Khan / Croupier
Jules
Milton Robinson
Dalíland
Dalí
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
Self
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Trevor Slattery
Marvel Studios Assembled
Self
Locked Down
Malcolm
Marvel Studios Legends
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
The Medicine Buddha
Narrator (voice)
Night Hunter
Cooper
The Red Sea Diving Resort
Ethan Levin
Perpetual Grace LTD
Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
Spider in the Web
Adereth
Watership Down
General Woundwort (voice)
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Self (archive footage)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self
Inside the Operation
Self
Who Killed British Cinema?
Self
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Henderson
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
Self
Operation Finale
Adolf Eichmann
All or Nothing: Manchester City
Narrator (voice)
Backstabbing for Beginners
Pasha
An Ordinary Man
The General
Spielberg
Self
War Machine
President Karzai
The Ottoman Lieutenant
Woodruff
Security
Charlie
Of Dogs and Men
The Caller (voice)
Collide
Geran
The Jungle Book
Bagheera (voice)
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
The Walk
Papa Rudy
Knight of Cups
Storyteller (voice)
Life
Jack Warner
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Tut
Ay
Self/less
Damian
Lip Sync Battle
Self
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Drago (Voice)
Robot Overlords
Robin Smythe
Der Medicus
Ibn Sina
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Merenkahre
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Nun
Stonehearst Asylum
Silas Lamb
The Boxtrolls
Snatcher (voice)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
Learning to Drive
Darwan
Garfunkel and Oates
Ben Kingsley
Walking with the Enemy
Regent Miklos Horthy
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
War Story
Albert
The Physician
Ibn Sina
Ender's Game
Mazer Rackham
Muse of Fire
Self
A Common Man
The Man
A Birder's Guide to Everything
Lawrence Konrad
Iron Man 3
Trevor Slattery
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
Narrator
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Self
The Dictator
Tamir
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Self
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Self
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Self
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Self
Hugo
Georges Méliès
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Voice
Aral, the Lost Sea
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Narrator
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Nizam
Teen Patti
Perci Trachtenberg
Shutter Island
Dr. Cawley
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
Al-Jazari / Librarian
Journey to Mecca
Narrator
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Fergus
Elegy
David Kepesh
The Wackness
Dr. Squires
The Love Guru
Guru Tugginmypuddha
War, Inc.
Walken / The Viceroy
TransSiberian
Grinko
The Ten Commandments
Narrator (voice)
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
Self
The Last Legion
Ambrosinus
You Kill Me
Frank Falenczyk
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
Self
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
Self
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
Mrs. Harris
Herman Tarnower
Lucky Number Slevin
The Rabbi
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
Peace Is Every Step
Narrator
BloodRayne
Kagan
Oliver Twist
Fagin
A Sound of Thunder
Charles Hatton
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self - Guest
Suspect Zero
Benjamin O'Ryan
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
Self
Thunderbirds
The Hood
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Self
Religion of the World
Narrator
House of Sand and Fog
Behrani
Unlikely Heroes
Narrator
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Self
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
Narrator
Tuck Everlasting
Man in the Yellow Suit
Spooky House
The Great Zamboni
The Triumph of Love
Hermocrates
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
Self - Interviewee
The Making of Sexy Beast
Self
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Specialist (voice)
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Otto Frank
Islam: Empire of Faith
Self - Narrator
Islam: Empire of Faith
Narrator
Sexy Beast
Don Logan
Rules of Engagement
Ambassador Mourain
What Planet Are You From?
Graydon
A Force More Powerful
Narator
CNN Millennium
Narrator
Rove
Self
Parting Shots
Renzo Locatelli
The Confession
Harry Fertig
Alice in Wonderland
Major Caterpillar
The Sopranos
Ben Kingsley
Crime and Punishment
Magistrate Porfiry
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd
Religions of the World
Narrator
The Assignment
Amos
Photographing Fairies
Rev. Templeton
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Julian Messenger
HARDtalk
Twelfth Night
Feste
Moses
Moses
Species
Xavier Fitch
Joseph
Potiphar
Joseph
Potiphar
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Death and the Maiden
Dr. Roberto Miranda
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
Self
Liberation
Narrator
Schindler's List
Itzhak Stern
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Bruce Pandolfini
Dave
Vice-President Nance
Sneakers
Cosmo
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Freddie (voice)
Bugsy
Meyer Lansky
Necessary Love
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
Narrator (voice)
The War That Never Ends
Pericles
The Fifth Monkey
Cunda
The Children
Martin Boyne
Cellini: A Violent Life
Governor
Romeo.Juliet
Father Capulet (voice)
The Making of Slipstream
Slipstream
Avatar
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Simon Wiesenthal
Lenin: The Train
Lenin
Lenin... The Train
Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
Testimony
Dmitri Shostakovich
Pascali's Island
Basil Pascali
Without a Clue
Dr. John Watson
The Secret of the Sahara
Sholomon
Dispatches
Seitenblicke
Self
Maurice
Lasker-Jones
Silas Marner
Silas Marner
Turtle Diary
William Snow
Harem
Selim
To Be Hamlet
Self
Camille
Duval
Oxbridge Blues
Geoff Craven
Playing Shakespeare
Goldene Kamera
Self
Betrayal
Robert
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Self
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Frank Ford
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Entertainment Tonight
Self
Wetten, dass..?
Self
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Ivanov
Thank You, Comrades
Roberto Cibrario
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Frank Ford
The Velvet Glove
Chakravarti
Dickens of London
Dr. John Elliotson
The Love School
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Antony and Cleopatra
Thidias
Playhouse
Ivanov
Wessex Tales
Lord Uplandtowers
Hard Labour
Naseem
Fear Is the Key
Royale
Pebble Mill at One
The Adventurer
Pierre
World in Action
Re-enactment
The Oscars
Self - Presenter
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Duval
Bambi
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member
Mary
King Herod
The Way of the Wind
Fortitude