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).
Filmography (68)
Desert Warrior
Deep Water
Young Washington
The Thursday Murder Club
William Tell
The King of Kings
The Killer's Game
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Poison
Jules
Dalíland
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
The Red Sea Diving Resort
Spider in the Web
Night Hunter
Operation Finale
Backstabbing for Beginners
An Ordinary Man
Security
The Jungle Book
Collide
The Walk
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Life
Self/less
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Exodus: Gods and Kings
The Boxtrolls
Stonehearst Asylum
Walking with the Enemy
Iron Man 3
Ender's Game
The Physician
The Dictator
Hugo
Shutter Island
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
The Love Guru
Elegy
TransSiberian
The Last Legion
You Kill Me
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
A Sound of Thunder
Oliver Twist
Suspect Zero
Thunderbirds
House of Sand and Fog
Tuck Everlasting
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Sexy Beast
Rules of Engagement
What Planet Are You From?
The Confession
Alice in Wonderland
The Assignment
Twelfth Night
Species
Death and the Maiden
Schindler's List
Dave
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Sneakers
Bugsy
Maurice
