Ben Kingsley
Acting
🎂 1943-12-31
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.
Cast credits(212)
Self
2005
Self
2014
Self
1981
Ben Kingsley
1999
Self
1948
Self - Nominee
1944
Self - Audience Member
1944
Self - Winner
1944
Ivanov
1974
Pierre
1972
Frank Ford
1978
1972
Self
1987
Self - Presenter
1953
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
2021
Self
2015
Self
1999
Self
2021
Self
2006
General Woundwort (voice)
2018
Duval
1951
Trevor Slatterly (archive footage)
2012
Ay
2015
Trevor Slattery
Dr. Cawley
2010
Trevor Slattery
2021
Otto Frank
2001
Trevor Slattery
2013
Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
2019
Moses
1996
Self
1981
Itzhak Stern
1993
Lenin
1988
Tamir
2012
Self
1984
Zvi Rabinowitz
2024
Sholomon
1988
Narrator
2004
Specialist (voice)
2001
Cosmo
1992
Nun
2014
Geoff Craven
1984
Bagheera (voice)
2016
Narrator
1998
Ben Kingsley
2014
High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
2025
Merenkahre
2014
Nizam
2010
Georges Méliès
2011
Narrator
1999
Narrator (voice)
2018
Imdad Khan / Croupier
2023
Self
1994
Xavier Fitch
1995
Cooper
2019
Narrator
2001
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1975
Mahatma Gandhi
1982
Damian
2015
King Albrecht
2025
The Rabbi
2006
Charlie
2017
Mazer Rackham
2013
Ambrosinus
2007
Snatcher (voice)
2014
Potifar
1995
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
2024
Silas Lamb
2014
Ambassador Mourain
2000
Bruce Pandolfini
1993
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
2013
Milton Robinson
2023
Storyteller (voice)
2015
Self
2017
Vice-President Nance
1993
Man in the Yellow Suit
2002
Major Caterpillar
1999
Adereth
2019
Dr. Ganderbai
2023
Kagan
2005
Geran
2016
Adolf Eichmann
2018
1973
Benjamin O'Ryan
2004
Don Logan
2000
Guru Tugginmypuddha
2008
Meyer Lansky
1991
Lasker-Jones
1987
The Hood
2004
President Karzai
2017
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
2014
Ethan Levin
2019
Robin Smythe
2014
Papa Rudy
2015
Drago (Voice)
2015
Dr. John Elliotson
1976
Pasha
2018
Fagin
2005
Ibrahim Arif
2025
Feste
1996
1984
Malcolm
2021
Behrani
2003
Avatar
1989
Charles Hatton
2005
DalĂ
2022
Dr. John Watson
1988
Grinko
2008
Harry Fertig
1999
Self (archive footage)
2014
Potiphar
1995
Walken / The Viceroy
2008
Woodruff
2017
Fergus
2008
Darwan
2014
Narrator
1994
Narrator (voice)
2015
David Kepesh
2008
Frank Falenczyk
2007
Perci Trachtenberg
2010
Dr. Roberto Miranda
1994
Amos
1997
Henderson
2018
Julian Messenger
1997
Narrator (voice)
2007
Jack Warner
2015
Dr. Squires
2008
Basil Pascali
1988
Regent Miklos Horthy
2014
The General
2017
Self
2005
Graydon
2000
Self
2013
2007
Lawrence Konrad
2013
Royale
1972
Narrator (voice)
2019
Self
2018
Duval
1984
Freddie (voice)
1992
Cunda
1990
William Snow
1985
Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)
1983
Rev. Templeton
1997
Narrator
2009
Voice
2011
Self
2022
Narrator
2012
Simon Wiesenthal
1989
The Great Zamboni
2002
Frank Ford
1982
Magistrate Porfiry
1998
Renzo Locatelli
1999
Robert
1983
Self
2006
The Man
2013
Herman Tarnower
2006
Self
1994
Self
2010
Dmitri Shostakovich
1988
Emperor Kisra
Albert
2014
Self
2006
1989
Hermocrates
2001
2003
Selim
1985
Self
2004
Self
2018
Father Capulet (voice)
1990
Narrator
2003
Narrator
2010
Sweeney Todd
1998
Self
2004
Self
2014
2006
Silas Marner
1985
Self
1985
Self
2012
Lenin
1990
Al-Jazari / Librarian
2010
Pericles
1991
Self - Narrator
2001
Self (archive footage)
2015
Governatore
1990
Self
2012
Self
2012
2010
Self
2006
Self
2012
Self
2003
Self
2012
Martin Boyne
1990
Therapist
2012
Naseem
1973
Self
2006
Self
1983
Narrator
2005
Ivanov
1979
Thidias
1975
Self
2018
Self
2001
King Herod
The Caller (voice)
2016
Self
2018
Narator
1999
Narrator (voice)
1991
1991
Narrator
2003
Narrator (voice)
1991