Ben Kingsley
Actor

Ben Kingsley

19 Movies
19 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 19
Birthday December 31, 1943 (82 years old)
Place of Birth Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As Sir Ben Kingsley , Krishna Pandit Bhanji, Krishna Bhanji
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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 inΒ 2013.

Born to an English mother and an Indian Gujarati fatherΒ 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 inΒ 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).

Filmography (216)

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 2027
Desert Warrior 2026
Deep Water 2026
Young Washington 2026
Wonder Man 2026
The Old Stories: Moses 2026
William Tell 2025
The Thursday Murder Club 2025
The King of Kings 2025
The Killer's Game 2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More 2024
Jules 2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023
Poison 2023
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry 2022
DalΓ­land 2022
Locked Down 2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021
Marvel Studios Legends 2021
Marvel Studios Assembled 2021
Night Hunter 2019
The Red Sea Diving Resort 2019
Spider in the Web 2019
The Medicine Buddha 2019
Perpetual Grace LTD 2019
Backstabbing for Beginners 2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author 2018
Operation Finale 2018
Who Killed British Cinema? 2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-BlachΓ© 2018
Inside the Operation 2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later 2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List 2018
Watership Down 2018
All or Nothing: Manchester City 2018
An Ordinary Man 2017
War Machine 2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant 2017
Security 2017
Spielberg 2017
The Jungle Book 2016
Collide 2016
Of Dogs and Men 2016
Self/less 2015
Robot Overlords 2015
The Walk 2015
Life 2015
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse 2015
Unity 2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC 2015
Knight of Cups 2015
Tut 2015
Lip Sync Battle 2015
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb 2014 The Boxtrolls 2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King 2014
War Story 2014
Walking with the Enemy 2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014
Learning to Drive 2014
Stonehearst Asylum 2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014
Garfunkel and Oates 2014
Der Medicus 2014
Iron Man 3 2013 Ender's Game 2013
A Common Man 2013
The Physician 2013
A Birder's Guide to Everything 2013
Muse of Fire 2013
The Dictator 2012
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl 2012
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' 2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' 2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès 2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime 2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard 2012
Hugo 2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art 2011
Shutter Island 2010 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 2010
Teen Patti 2010
Aral, the Lost Sea 2010
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny 2010
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets 2010
Journey to Mecca 2009
TransSiberian 2008
Elegy 2008
The Love Guru 2008
War, Inc. 2008
The Wackness 2008
Fifty Dead Men Walking 2008
The Ten Commandments 2007
You Kill Me 2007
The Last Legion 2007
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal 2007
Lucky Number Slevin 2006
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia 2006
50 Films to See Before You Die 2006
Mrs. Harris 2006
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood 2006
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis 2006
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel 2006
Oliver Twist 2005
A Sound of Thunder 2005
BloodRayne 2005
Peace Is Every Step 2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood 2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2005
Suspect Zero 2004
Thunderbirds 2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust 2004
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds 2004
Religion of the World 2004
House of Sand and Fog 2003
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough 2003
Unlikely Heroes 2003
The Making of β€˜Sneakers’ 2003
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land 2003
Tuck Everlasting 2002
Spooky House 2002
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
Sexy Beast 2001
The Triumph of Love 2001
Islam: Empire of Faith 2001
The Making of Sexy Beast 2001
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi" 2001
Islam: Empire of Faith 2001
Anne Frank: The Whole Story 2001
What Planet Are You From? 2000
Rules of Engagement 2000
The Confession 1999
Alice in Wonderland 1999
A Force More Powerful 1999
Parting Shots 1999
Rove 1999
CNN Millennium 1999
The Sopranos 1999
The Tale of Sweeney Todd 1998
Crime and Punishment 1998
Religions of the World 1998
The Assignment 1997
Photographing Fairies 1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction 1997
HARDtalk 1997
Twelfth Night 1996
Moses 1996
Joseph 1995 Species 1995
Joseph 1995
Death and the Maiden 1994
Liberation 1994
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold 1994
Inside the Actors Studio 1994
Schindler's List 1993
Dave 1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993
Sneakers 1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7. 1992
Bugsy 1991
Necessary Love 1991
The War That Never Ends 1991
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin 1991
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver 1991
The Children 1990
The Fifth Monkey 1990
Cellini: A Violent Life 1990
Romeo.Juliet 1990
Slipstream 1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story 1989
The Making of Slipstream 1989
Lenin: The Train 1988
Without a Clue 1988
Testimony 1988
Pascali's Island 1988
The Secret of the Sahara 1988
Lenin... The Train 1988
Maurice 1987
Seitenblicke 1987
Dispatches 1987
To Be Hamlet 1985
Harem 1985
Silas Marner 1985
Turtle Diary 1985
Camille 1984
Oxbridge Blues 1984
Playing Shakespeare 1984
Goldene Kamera 1984
Betrayal 1983
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi 1983
Gandhi 1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor 1982
Wetten, dass..? 1981
Entertainment Tonight 1981
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour 1979
Thank You, Comrades 1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare 1978
The Velvet Glove 1977
Dickens of London 1976
Antony and Cleopatra 1975
The Love School 1975
Playhouse 1974
Hard Labour 1973
Wessex Tales 1973
Fear Is the Key 1972
Pebble Mill at One 1972
The Adventurer 1972
World in Action 1963
The Oscars 1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951
Bambi 1948
Golden Globe Awards 1944
Mary
The Way of the Wind
Fortitude