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