Ben Kingsley
Known for Acting · 218 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 (47)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Sopranos
1999
as Ben Kingsley
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self - Guest
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member
Playhouse
1974
as Ivanov
Pebble Mill at One
1972
The Oscars
1953
as Self - Presenter
Bambi
1948
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Lip Sync Battle
2015
as Self
Rove
1999
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Wonder Man
2026
as Trevor Slattery
Dispatches
1987
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
as Ben Kingsley
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021
as Self
HARDtalk
1997
Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
Watership Down
2018
as General Woundwort (voice)
Der Medicus
2014
as Ibn Sina
Seitenblicke
1987
as Self
The Old Stories: Moses
2026
as Moses
World in Action
1963
as Re-enactment
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Frank Ford
The Adventurer
1972
as Pierre
Tut
2015
as Ay
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Duval
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
Oxbridge Blues
1984
as Geoff Craven
All or Nothing: Manchester City
2018
as Narrator (voice)
The Secret of the Sahara
1988
as Sholomon
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Wessex Tales
1973
as Lord Uplandtowers
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001
as Otto Frank
The Velvet Glove
1977
as Chakravarti
The Love School
1975
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dickens of London
1976
as Dr. John Elliotson
Moses
1996
as Moses
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Joseph
1995
as Potiphar
Lenin... The Train
1988
as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
as Narrator
CNN Millennium
1999
as Narrator
Religion of the World
2004
as Narrator
Religions of the World
1998
as Narrator
Movies (171)
Deep Water
2026
as Rich
Iron Man 3
2013
as Trevor Slattery
Schindler's List
1993
as Itzhak Stern
Young Washington
2026
as Robert Dinwiddie
Shutter Island
2010
as Dr. Cawley
Desert Warrior
2026
as Emperor Kisra II
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)
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
2027
as (voice)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
as Merenkahre
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Nun
The Killer's Game
2024
as Zvi Rabinowitz
Ender's Game
2013
as Mazer Rackham
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010
as Nizam
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
as Silas Lamb
The Boxtrolls
2014
as Snatcher (voice)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Specialist (voice)
Sneakers
1992
as Cosmo
The Physician
2013
as Ibn Sina
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
Poison
2023
as Dr. Ganderbai
Night Hunter
2019
as Cooper
Self/less
2015
as Damian
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
as The Rabbi
The Walk
2015
as Papa Rudy
Security
2017
as Charlie
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
as Ibrahim
Hugo
2011
as Georges Méliès
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
2006
as Self
Knight of Cups
2015
as Storyteller (voice)
Operation Finale
2018
as Adolf Eichmann
Species
1995
as Xavier Fitch
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
as Ethan Levin
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
as Woodruff
The King of Kings
2025
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018
as Pasha
Maurice
1987
as Lasker-Jones
Walking with the Enemy
2014
as Regent Miklos Horthy
Collide
2016
as Geran
Learning to Drive
2014
as Darwan
The Fifth Monkey
1990
as Cunda
War Machine
2017
as President Karzai
William Tell
2025
as King Albrecht
Joseph
1995
as Potiphar
Robot Overlords
2015
as Robin Smythe
An Ordinary Man
2017
as The General
Gandhi
1982
as Mahatma Gandhi
The Last Legion
2007
as Ambrosinus
Jules
2023
as Milton Robinson
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Sexy Beast
2001
as Don Logan
Alice in Wonderland
1999
as Major Caterpillar
TransSiberian
2008
as Grinko
House of Sand and Fog
2003
as Behrani
Rules of Engagement
2000
as Ambassador Mourain
Oliver Twist
2005
as Fagin
Pascali's Island
1988
as Basil Pascali
Liberation
1994
as Narrator
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
A Sound of Thunder
2005
as Charles Hatton
Dave
1993
as Vice-President Nance
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
BloodRayne
2005
as Kagan
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015
as Drago (Voice)
The Love Guru
2008
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
Bugsy
1991
as Meyer Lansky
The Way of the Wind
Dalíland
2022
as Dalí
Thunderbirds
2004
as The Hood
Elegy
2008
as David Kepesh
Death and the Maiden
1994
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
as Freddie (voice)
Parting Shots
1999
as Renzo Locatelli
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
as Bruce Pandolfini
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Tuck Everlasting
2002
as Man in the Yellow Suit
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
1993
The Assignment
1997
as Amos
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
as Fergus
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983
as Self
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
as Frank Ford
Lenin: The Train
1988
as Lenin
Turtle Diary
1985
as William Snow
Antony and Cleopatra
1975
as Thidias
Suspect Zero
2004
as Benjamin O'Ryan
Romeo.Juliet
1990
as Father Capulet (voice)
Twelfth Night
1996
as Feste
To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
Camille
1984
as Duval
A Common Man
2013
as The Man
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
as Voice
A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013
as Lawrence Konrad
The Ten Commandments
2007
as Narrator (voice)
What Planet Are You From?
2000
as Graydon
Spider in the Web
2019
as Adereth
Journey to Mecca
2009
as Narrator
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
2001
as Self - Interviewee
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
as Henderson
Locked Down
2021
as Malcolm
Without a Clue
1988
as Dr. John Watson
Spooky House
2002
as The Great Zamboni
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998
as Sweeney Todd
Unlikely Heroes
2003
as Narrator
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
as Self - Narrator
A Force More Powerful
1999
as Narator
The Wackness
2008
as Dr. Squires
Peace Is Every Step
2005
as Narrator
Of Dogs and Men
2016
as The Caller (voice)
The Children
1990
as Martin Boyne
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
2010
as Narrator
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
as Self
The Confession
1999
as Harry Fertig
War, Inc.
2008
as Walken / The Viceroy
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979
as Ivanov
Betrayal
1983
as Robert
Necessary Love
1991
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
as Self
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
as Self
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 218 credits spanning from 1944 to 2027, Ben Kingsley has appeared in 171 films and 47 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ben Kingsley Movies
- Deep Water (2026) — as Rich
- Iron Man 3 (2013) — as Trevor Slattery
- Schindler's List (1993) — as Itzhak Stern
- Young Washington (2026) — as Robert Dinwiddie
- Shutter Island (2010) — as Dr. Cawley
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