Ben Kingsley
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-12-31
Place of Birth
Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Ben Kingsley
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 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.
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Lucky Number Slevin
Feb 24, 2006
Oliver Twist
Sep 23, 2005
Schindler's List
Dec 15, 1993
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Jun 29, 2001
Gandhi
Dec 01, 1982
Death and the Maiden
May 04, 1994
Sneakers
Sep 09, 1992
To Be Hamlet
Jan 19, 1985
A Sound of Thunder
May 15, 2005
Joseph
Apr 10, 1995
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
Dec 12, 2006
Bugsy
Dec 10, 1991
What Planet Are You From?
Mar 03, 2000
Lenin: The Train
Apr 30, 1990
Rules of Engagement
Apr 07, 2000
House of Sand and Fog
Dec 19, 2003
The Confession
Mar 26, 1999
Dave
May 07, 1993
Shutter Island
Feb 14, 2010
The Ten Commandments
Oct 19, 2007
Slipstream
Jun 22, 1989
TransSiberian
Jan 18, 2008
Sexy Beast
Sep 13, 2000
Alice in Wonderland
Feb 28, 1999
Suspect Zero
Aug 27, 2004
You Kill Me
Feb 09, 2007
Elegy
Aug 08, 2008
Fear Is the Key
Dec 26, 1972
The Love Guru
Jun 20, 2008
Maurice
Sep 18, 1987
Without a Clue
May 05, 1988
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
May 19, 2010
War, Inc.
Apr 28, 2008
Species
Jul 07, 1995
Harem
Nov 06, 1985
The Last Legion
Apr 19, 2007
Teen Patti
Feb 26, 2010
Desert Warrior
The Triumph of Love
Sep 07, 2001
Tuck Everlasting
Oct 11, 2002
The Wackness
Jul 03, 2008
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Aug 13, 1993
Jules
Aug 10, 2023
Thunderbirds
Jul 23, 2004
The Children
May 18, 1990
50 Films to See Before You Die
Jul 22, 2006
Twelfth Night
Oct 25, 1996
Hugo
Nov 22, 2011
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Sep 20, 2023
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Sep 10, 2008
Islam: Empire of Faith
May 08, 2001
The Assignment
Sep 28, 1997
Iron Man 3
Apr 18, 2013
Ender's Game
Oct 24, 2013
The Killer's Game
Sep 12, 2024
Schindler
Oct 01, 1983
The Dictator
May 15, 2012
A Force More Powerful
Dec 01, 1999
Mrs. Harris
Feb 25, 2006
Silas Marner
Dec 30, 1985
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Mar 18, 2011
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Jan 01, 2004
Turtle Diary
Dec 06, 1985
Parting Shots
May 14, 1999
A Common Man
Jun 30, 2013
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
Aug 14, 1992
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
Aug 10, 2012
Spooky House
Apr 19, 2002
A Therapy
May 22, 2012
Testimony
Nov 01, 1988
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
Jul 24, 2004
Pascali's Island
Jul 22, 1988
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
Jun 08, 2010
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Feb 28, 2012
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Feb 28, 2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Feb 28, 2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Feb 28, 2012
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
Aug 30, 1998
Betrayal
Feb 19, 1983
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Dec 17, 2014
Camille
Dec 11, 1984
The Physician
Dec 25, 2013
BloodRayne
Oct 22, 2005
Aral, the Lost Sea
Sep 20, 2010
The Boxtrolls
Sep 10, 2014
A Birder's Guide to Everything
Apr 21, 2013
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Aug 24, 2003
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Apr 22, 1989
Poison
Sep 29, 2023
Liberation
Jan 01, 1994
Muse of Fire
Sep 26, 2013
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Nov 14, 1979
Self/less
Jul 10, 2015
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
Feb 04, 2014
Robot Overlords
Oct 18, 2014
War Story
Jan 19, 2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
Antony and Cleopatra
Jan 04, 1975
Unlikely Heroes
Sep 03, 2003
Walking with the Enemy
Apr 25, 2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Dec 03, 2014
William Tell
Jan 17, 2025
Photographing Fairies
Sep 19, 1997
Journey to Mecca
Jan 07, 2009
The Jungle Book
Apr 07, 2016
Learning to Drive
Aug 21, 2014
The Fifth Monkey
Oct 05, 1990
Stonehearst Asylum
Oct 23, 2014
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
Mar 30, 2022
The Walk
Sep 30, 2015
Life
Sep 09, 2015
Weapons of Mass Distraction
May 17, 1997
Peace Is Every Step
Dec 13, 2005
Deep Water
Feb 12, 2026
Collide
Jun 10, 2016
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Feb 24, 2015
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Aug 25, 2014
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mar 01, 2005
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Jun 03, 2003
Crime and Punishment
Oct 11, 1998
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
Nov 01, 2006
Unity
Aug 12, 2015
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Aug 20, 2010
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Mar 14, 2024
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Nov 01, 2015
The Thursday Murder Club
Aug 22, 2025
Knight of Cups
Sep 10, 2015
Necessary Love
Nov 27, 1991
The Making of Sexy Beast
Jul 13, 2001
The War That Never Ends
Mar 28, 1991
The King of Kings
Apr 07, 2025
Cellini: A Violent Life
May 02, 1990
An Ordinary Man
Oct 09, 2017
Of Dogs and Men
Oct 22, 2016
War Machine
May 26, 2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant
Mar 28, 2017
Hard Labour
Mar 12, 1973
Night Hunter
Aug 29, 2019
Mary
Security
Mar 04, 2017
The Red Sea Diving Resort
Jul 28, 2019
Backstabbing for Beginners
Jan 18, 2018
Spielberg
Oct 05, 2017
Intrigo: Death of an Author
Oct 11, 2018
Operation Finale
Aug 29, 2018
Spider in the Web
Apr 20, 2019
Dalíland
Sep 29, 2022
Romeo.Juliet
Jan 01, 1990
Who Killed British Cinema?
Nov 26, 2018
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
May 28, 2012
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Dec 28, 1982
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Dec 07, 2018
Inside The Operation
Dec 04, 2018
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
Jan 21, 2010
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
May 28, 2007
Locked Down
Feb 25, 2021
The Way of the Wind
The Medicine Buddha
Nov 20, 2019
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Feb 01, 1983
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
Jan 01, 2006
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
Dec 12, 2006
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Sep 01, 2021
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
Feb 01, 1994
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
Sep 01, 1991
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
Sep 14, 1991
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
Jan 01, 2003
The Making of Slipstream
Oct 25, 1989
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
Oct 01, 2018
Pebble Mill at One
Oct 09, 1972
The One Show
Aug 14, 2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
The Adventurer
Sep 29, 1972
The Secret of the Sahara
Jan 03, 1988
Islam: Empire of Faith
May 08, 2001
Oxbridge Blues
Nov 14, 1984
Marvel Studios Legends
Jan 08, 2021
Tut
Jul 19, 2015
Marvel Studios Assembled
Mar 12, 2021
Wetten, dass..?
Feb 14, 1981
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
Rove
Sep 22, 1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Wessex Tales
Nov 07, 1973
Watership Down
Dec 22, 2018
Joseph
Apr 16, 1995
CNN Millennium
Oct 24, 1999
Lenin... The Train
Nov 30, 1988
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
May 20, 2001
Lip Sync Battle
Apr 02, 2015
Playing Shakespeare
Jul 29, 1984
All or Nothing: Manchester City
Aug 17, 2018
Religion of the World
Jan 01, 2004
Perpetual Grace LTD
Jun 02, 2019
Wonder Man
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Feb 03, 1984
Bambi-Verleihung
Jan 01, 1948
The Love School
Jan 22, 1975
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Entertainment Tonight
Sep 15, 1981
Moses
Apr 07, 1996
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
The Sopranos
Jan 10, 1999
Garfunkel and Oates
Aug 07, 2014
Seitenblicke
Oct 07, 1987
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Religions of the World
Jan 01, 1998
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Dec 03, 1978
Honest Trailers
Feb 13, 2012
Playhouse
Mar 13, 1974
