Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 31, 1943
Place of Birth:
Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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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).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Legends | Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Assembled | Self |
| 2019 | Perpetual Grace LTD | Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown |
| 2018 | Watership Down | General Woundwort (voice) |
| 2018 | All or Nothing: Manchester City | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Tut | Ay |
| 2015 | Lip Sync Battle | Self |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Garfunkel and Oates | Ben Kingsley |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers | Trevor Slatterly (archive footage) |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self |
| 2004 | Religion of the World | Narrator |
| 2001 | Islam: Empire of Faith | Narrator |
| 2001 | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank |
| 1999 | Rove | Self |
| 1999 | CNN Millennium | Narrator |
| 1999 | The Sopranos | Ben Kingsley |
| 1998 | Religions of the World | Narrator |
| 1996 | Moses | Moses |
| 1995 | Joseph | Potiphar |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1988 | The Secret of the Sahara | Sholomon |
| 1988 | Lenin... The Train | Lenin |
| 1987 | Seitenblicke | Self |
| 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Geoff Craven |
| 1984 | Playing Shakespeare | |
| 1984 | Goldene Kamera Verleihung | Self |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight | Self |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Frank Ford |
| 1976 | Dickens Of London | Dr. John Elliotson |
| 1975 | The Love School | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Robert Cibrario |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Ivanov |
| 1973 | Wessex Tales | |
| 1972 | Pebble Mill at One | |
| 1972 | The Adventurer | Pierre |
| 1965 | Orlando | Peter Batterby |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self - Presenter |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Duval |
| 1948 | Bambi-Verleihung | Self |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Audience Member |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Winner |
| Wonder Man | Trevor Slattery |