Ben Kingsley
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-12-31 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Ben Kingsley
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).
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Known For
Acting
Desert Warrior
as Emperor Kisra
Mary
as King Herod
(2025)
The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
(2025)
William Tell
as King Albrecht
(2025)
The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim Arif
(2024)
The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz
(2024)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
(2023)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
(2023)
Jules
as Milton Robinson
(2023)
Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai
(2022)
Dalíland
as Dalí
(2022)
(2021)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery
(2021)
Locked Down
as Malcolm
(2019)
Night Hunter
as Cooper
(2019)
The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin
(2019)
Spider in the Web
as Adereth
(2019)
The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann
(2018)
Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha
(2018)
(2018)
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson
(2018)
Inside The Operation
as Self
(2018)
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self
(2017)
Security
as Charlie
(2017)
War Machine
as President Karzai
(2017)
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff
(2017)
Spielberg
as Self
(2017)
An Ordinary Man
as The General
(2016)
The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)
(2016)
Collide
as Geran
(2016)
Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)
(2015)
The Walk
as Papa Rudy
(2015)
Self/less
as Damian
(2015)
Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)
(2015)
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)
(2015)
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Life
as Jack Warner
(2015)
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun
(2014)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre
(2014)
Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb
(2014)
The Boxtrolls
as Archibald Snatcher (voice)
(2014)
Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Learning to Drive
as Darwan
(2014)
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
(2014)
Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy
(2014)
(2014)
War Story
as Albert
(2013)
Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery
(2013)
Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham
(2013)
The Physician
as Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
(2013)
Muse of Fire
as Self
(2013)
A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad
(2013)
A Common Man
as The Man
(2012)
The Dictator
as Tamir
(2012)
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
A Therapy
as Therapist
(2012)
(2012)
(2011)
Hugo
as Georges Méliès
(2011)
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
(2010)
Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley
(2010)
(2010)
Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg
(2010)
(2010)
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian
(2010)
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator
(2010)
(2009)
Journey to Mecca
as Narrator
(2008)
The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
(2008)
Elegy
as David Kepesh
(2008)
TransSiberian
as Grinko
(2008)
The Wackness
as Dr. Squires
(2008)
Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus
(2008)
War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy
(2007)
The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus
(2007)
The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)
(2007)
You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk
(2007)
(2006)
Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi
(2006)
Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower
(2006)
(2006)
(2006)
(2006)
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
(2006)
(2005)
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
(2005)
A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton
(2005)
BloodRayne
as Kagan
(2005)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
(2005)
Peace Is Every Step
as Narrator
(2004)
Thunderbirds
as The Hood
(2004)
Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan
(2004)
(2004)
(2003)
House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani
(2003)
Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator
(2003)
(2003)
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
(2003)
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator
(2002)
Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit
(2002)
Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni
(2001)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)
(2001)
The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates
(2001)
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator
(2001)
The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
(2000)
Sexy Beast
as Don Logan
(2000)
Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain
(2000)
What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon
(1999)
Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar
(1999)
The Confession
as Harry Fertig
(1999)
Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli
(1999)
A Force More Powerful
as Narator
(1998)
Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry
(1998)
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd
(1997)
The Assignment
as Amos
(1997)
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger
(1997)
Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton
(1996)
Twelfth Night
as Feste
(1995)
Species
as Xavier Fitch
(1995)
Joseph
as Potifar
(1995)
Moses
as Moses
(1994)
Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
(1994)
(1994)
Liberation
as Narrator
(1993)
Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern
(1993)
Dave
as Vice-President Nance
(1993)
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini
(1992)
Sneakers
as Cosmo
(1992)
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)
(1991)
Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky
(1991)
The War That Never Ends
as Pericles
(1991)
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)
(1991)
(1991)
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)
(1990)
Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)
(1990)
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governatore
(1990)
Lenin: The Train
as Lenin
(1990)
The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda
(1990)
The Children
as Martin Boyne
(1989)
Slipstream
as Avatar
(1989)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal
(1989)
(1988)
Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich
(1988)
Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson
(1988)
Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali
(1987)
Maurice
as Lasker-Jones
(1985)
Turtle Diary
as William Snow
(1985)
Silas Marner
as Silas Marner
(1985)
Harem
as Selim
(1985)
To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1984)
Camille
as Duval
(1983)
Schindler
as Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)
(1983)
(1983)
Betrayal
as Robert
(1982)
Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi
(1982)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford
(1979)
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
as Ivanov
(1975)
Antony and Cleopatra
as Thidias
(1973)
Hard Labour
as Naseem
(1972)
Fear Is the Key
as Royale
Crew
(2022)
Dalíland
Executive Producer