Ben Kingsley
Acting
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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1943-12-31
Country:
Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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Filmography of
Ben Kingsley
Robert Dinwiddie
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Emperor Kisra
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Ibrahim
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High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
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King Albrecht
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Zvi Rabinowitz
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Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
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Dr. Ganderbai
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Imdad Khan / Croupier
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Milton Robinson
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Dalí
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Trevor Slattery
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Malcolm
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Narrator (voice)
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Cooper
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Ethan Levin
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Adereth
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Self (archive footage)
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Self
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Henderson
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Adolf Eichmann
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The General
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Self
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President Karzai
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Woodruff
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Charlie
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The Caller (voice)
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Geran
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Bagheera (voice)
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Self (archive footage)
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Papa Rudy
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Storyteller (voice)
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Jack Warner
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Narrator (voice)
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Damian
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Drago (Voice)
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Merenkahre
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Silas Lamb
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Robin Smythe
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Snatcher (voice)
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Darwan
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Regent Miklos Horthy
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Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
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Albert
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
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Mazer Rackham
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Self
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The Man
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Lawrence Konrad
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Trevor Slattery
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Therapist
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Tamir
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Georges Méliès
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Perci Trachtenberg
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Dr. Cawley
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Al-Jazari / Librarian
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Narrator
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Fergus
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David Kepesh
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Dr. Squires
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Guru Tugginmypuddha
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Walken / The Viceroy
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Grinko
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Narrator (voice)
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Ambrosinus
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Frank Falenczyk
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Herman Tarnower
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The Rabbi
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Narrator
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Kagan
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Fagin
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Charles Hatton
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Benjamin O'Ryan
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The Hood
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Behrani
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Narrator
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Man in the Yellow Suit
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The Great Zamboni
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Hermocrates
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Specialist (voice)
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Self - Narrator
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Don Logan
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Ambassador Mourain
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Graydon
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Narator
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Renzo Locatelli
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Harry Fertig
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Major Caterpillar
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Magistrate Porfiry
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Sweeney Todd
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Amos
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Rev. Templeton
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Julian Messenger
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Feste
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Moses
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Moses
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Xavier Fitch
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Potifar
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Dr. Roberto Miranda
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Narrator
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Itzhak Stern
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Bruce Pandolfini
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Vice-President Nance
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Cosmo
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Freddie (voice)
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Meyer Lansky
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Narrator (voice)
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Narrator (voice)
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Pericles
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Cunda
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Martin Boyne
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Governor
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Lenin
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Father Capulet (voice)
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Avatar
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Simon Wiesenthal
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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Basil Pascali
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Dr. John Watson
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Lasker-Jones
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Silas Marner
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William Snow
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Selim
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Self
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Duval
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Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)
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Robert
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Frank Ford
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Thidias
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Naseem
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Royale
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King Herod
