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Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley

Acting

Born December 31, 1943, Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

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).

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (44)
  • 2022Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry — Self
  • Marvel Studios Assembled — Self
  • 2018An Oral History of: Schindler's List — Self (archive footage)
  • 2018Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché — Self
  • 2018Inside the Operation — Self
  • 2018Who Killed British Cinema? — Self
  • 2017Spielberg — Self
  • 2015Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
  • Lip Sync Battle — Self
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
  • 2014Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film — Self
  • 2013Muse of Fire — Self
  • 2012Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard — Self
  • 2012Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime — Self
  • 2012Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' — Self
  • 2012The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès — Self
  • 2012The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' — Self
  • 2007I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal — Self
  • 200650 Films to See Before You Die — Self
  • 2006C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia — Self
  • 2006Mais Bastidores de Hollywood — Self
  • 2006The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel — Self
  • 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self - Guest
  • 2004Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust — Self
  • 2004No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds — Self
  • 2003The Making of ‘Sneakers’ — Self
  • 2001Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi" — Self - Interviewee
  • 2001Islam: Empire of Faith — Self - Narrator
  • 2001The Making of Sexy Beast — Self
  • Rove — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1994Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold — Self
  • 1993The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream — Self / The King (voice)
  • Seitenblicke — Self
  • 1985To Be Hamlet — Self
  • Goldene Kamera — Self
  • 1983Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi — Self
  • Entertainment Tonight — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • Film '72 — Self
  • The Oscars — Self - Presenter
  • Bambi — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Audience Member
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