Ben Kingsley
Known for Acting · 213 credits
- Born
- 1943-12-31 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Sir Ben Kingsley · Krishna Pandit Bhanji · Krishna Bhanji
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).
Known For
TV Shows (44)
The Sopranos
1999
as Ben Kingsley
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self - Guest
Bambi
1948
as Self
Playhouse
1974
as Ivanov
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self - Presenter
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
Lip Sync Battle
2015
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Wonder Man
2026
as Trevor Slattery
Dispatches
1987
The Secret of the Sahara
1988
as Sholomon
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021
as Self
World in Action
1963
as Re-enactment
Rove
1999
as Self
Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
Pebble Mill at One
1972
The Adventurer
1972
as Pierre
Seitenblicke
1987
as Self
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
Watership Down
2018
as General Woundwort (voice)
Tut
2015
as Ay
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
as Ben Kingsley
HARDtalk
1997
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Duval
Dickens of London
1976
as Dr. John Elliotson
Oxbridge Blues
1984
as Geoff Craven
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001
as Otto Frank
Moses
1996
as Moses
The Love School
1975
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
All or Nothing: Manchester City
2018
as Narrator (voice)
CNN Millennium
1999
as Narrator
Lenin... The Train
1988
as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
Wessex Tales
1973
as Lord Uplandtowers
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
The Old Stories: Moses
2026
as Moses
Joseph
1995
as Potiphar
Religions of the World
1998
as Narrator
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
as Narrator
Religion of the World
2004
as Narrator
Der Medicus
2014
as Ibn Sina
Movies (169)
Schindler's List
1993
as Itzhak Stern
Iron Man 3
2013
as Trevor Slattery
Shutter Island
2010
as Dr. Cawley
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
as Trevor Slattery
The Dictator
2012
as Tamir
The Jungle Book
2016
as Bagheera (voice)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Specialist (voice)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
as Merenkahre
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Nun
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
2027
as (voice)
Sneakers
1992
as Cosmo
Self/less
2015
as Damian
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010
as Nizam
Deep Water
2026
as Rich
Species
1995
as Xavier Fitch
The King of Kings
2025
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
Hugo
2011
as Georges Méliès
The Killer's Game
2024
as Zvi Rabinowitz
William Tell
2025
as King Albrecht
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
as Ibrahim
The Boxtrolls
2014
as Snatcher (voice)
Ender's Game
2013
as Mazer Rackham
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
as Silas Lamb
The Physician
2013
as Ibn Sina
Night Hunter
2019
as Cooper
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
as The Rabbi
Joseph
1995
as Potiphar
Security
2017
as Charlie
The Walk
2015
as Papa Rudy
War Machine
2017
as President Karzai
Desert Warrior
2026
as Emperor Kisra
Gandhi
1982
as Mahatma Gandhi
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
Dave
1993
as Vice-President Nance
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Sexy Beast
2001
as Don Logan
Collide
2016
as Geran
The Last Legion
2007
as Ambrosinus
Operation Finale
2018
as Adolf Eichmann
Maurice
1987
as Lasker-Jones
BloodRayne
2005
as Kagan
Bugsy
1991
as Meyer Lansky
Suspect Zero
2004
as Benjamin O'Ryan
Jules
2023
as Milton Robinson
Poison
2023
as Dr. Ganderbai
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
as Bruce Pandolfini
Oliver Twist
2005
as Fagin
Alice in Wonderland
1999
as Major Caterpillar
Tuck Everlasting
2002
as Man in the Yellow Suit
Young Washington
2026
as Robert Dinwiddie
Thunderbirds
2004
as The Hood
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
as Ethan Levin
The Love Guru
2008
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
Locked Down
2021
as Malcolm
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015
as Drago (Voice)
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
House of Sand and Fog
2003
as Behrani
Elegy
2008
as David Kepesh
The Assignment
1997
as Amos
Rules of Engagement
2000
as Ambassador Mourain
Knight of Cups
2015
as Storyteller (voice)
Robot Overlords
2015
as Robin Smythe
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
as Woodruff
Twelfth Night
1996
as Feste
A Sound of Thunder
2005
as Charles Hatton
TransSiberian
2008
as Grinko
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018
as Pasha
An Ordinary Man
2017
as The General
Without a Clue
1988
as Dr. John Watson
Death and the Maiden
1994
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
Life
2015
as Jack Warner
Walking with the Enemy
2014
as Regent Miklos Horthy
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
Parting Shots
1999
as Renzo Locatelli
What Planet Are You From?
2000
as Graydon
You Kill Me
2007
as Frank Falenczyk
Dalíland
2022
as Dalí
The Confession
1999
as Harry Fertig
Learning to Drive
2014
as Darwan
War, Inc.
2008
as Walken / The Viceroy
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
as Self
Mrs. Harris
2006
as Herman Tarnower
The Ten Commandments
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Slipstream
1989
as Avatar
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
The Fifth Monkey
1990
as Cunda
The Wackness
2008
as Dr. Squires
The Way of the Wind
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
as Fergus
A Common Man
2013
as The Man
Teen Patti
2010
as Perci Trachtenberg
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Spider in the Web
2019
as Adereth
Spooky House
2002
as The Great Zamboni
The War That Never Ends
1991
as Pericles
Fear Is the Key
1972
as Royale
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
as Freddie (voice)
Harem
1985
as Selim
War Story
2014
as Albert
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Self
The Triumph of Love
2001
as Hermocrates
Lenin: The Train
1988
as Lenin
Photographing Fairies
1997
as Rev. Templeton
Pascali's Island
1988
as Basil Pascali
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998
as Sweeney Todd
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
as Frank Ford
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
as Henderson
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
as Self
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
as Julian Messenger
Camille
1984
as Duval
Journey to Mecca
2009
as Narrator
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013
as Lawrence Konrad
Betrayal
1983
as Robert
Turtle Diary
1985
as William Snow
Romeo.Juliet
1990
as Father Capulet (voice)
About 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… With 213 credits spanning from 1944 to 2027, Ben Kingsley has appeared in 169 films and 44 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ben Kingsley Movies
- Schindler's List (1993) — as Itzhak Stern
- Iron Man 3 (2013) — as Trevor Slattery
- Shutter Island (2010) — as Dr. Cawley
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) — as Trevor Slattery
- The Dictator (2012) — as Tamir
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