Cast
Ben Kingsley
Acting
Cast
Ben Kingsley
Known for
Acting
Born
1943-12-31
From
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).
★7.5
MOVIE2026
Deep Water
as Rich
★8.6
MOVIE1993
Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern
★5.7
MOVIE2026
Desert Warrior
as Emperor Kisra II
★6.9
MOVIE2013
Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery
★8.2
MOVIE2010
Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley
★8.1
MOVIE2026
Young Washington
as Robert Dinwiddie
★7.5
MOVIE2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery
★6.2
MOVIE2012
The Dictator
as Tamir
★6.9
MOVIE2016
The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2014
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre
★5.9
MOVIE2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun
MOVIE2027
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
as (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE2024
The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz
★6.9
MOVIE1992
Sneakers
as Cosmo
★6.6
MOVIE2013
Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham
★6.8
MOVIE2014
Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb
★6.7
MOVIE2014
The Boxtrolls
as Snatcher (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE2025
The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim
★6.3
MOVIE2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Nizam
★6.4
MOVIE2015
Self/less
as Damian
★7.5
MOVIE2006
Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi
★7.2
MOVIE2011
Hugo
as Georges Méliès
★7.3
MOVIE2013
The Physician
as Ibn Sina
★6.2
MOVIE2025
William Tell
as King Albrecht
★8.3
MOVIE2025
The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE2019
Night Hunter
as Cooper
★7.0
MOVIE2015
The Walk
as Papa Rudy
★6.0
MOVIE1995
Species
as Xavier Fitch
★8.2
MOVIE1995
Joseph
as Potiphar
★7.3
MOVIE2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
★6.3
MOVIE2017
Security
as Charlie
★6.9
MOVIE2023
Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai
★5.7
MOVIE2015
Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)
★7.6
MOVIE1982
Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi
★7.6
MOVIE1987
Maurice
as Lasker-Jones
★6.3
MOVIE2014
Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy
★4.1
MOVIE2008
The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
★7.2
MOVIE2003
House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani
★5.6
MOVIE2007
The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus
★6.2
MOVIE1999
Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar
★6.8
MOVIE2019
The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin
★7.5
MOVIE2017
Spielberg
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE2008
TransSiberian
as Grinko
★6.0
MOVIE2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff
★5.6
MOVIE2017
War Machine
as President Karzai
★6.7
MOVIE2018
Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann
★6.3
MOVIE2000
Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain
★5.6
MOVIE2016
Collide
as Geran
★5.4
MOVIE2015
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2008
Elegy
as David Kepesh
MOVIE2006
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE2008
Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus
★6.8
MOVIE2005
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
★7.0
MOVIE2001
Sexy Beast
as Don Logan
★6.2
MOVIE2018
Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha
★4.1
MOVIE2005
BloodRayne
as Kagan
★6.8
MOVIE2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
★6.4
MOVIE1991
Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky
★6.6
MOVIE1993
Dave
as Vice-President Nance
★9.0
MOVIE1990
The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda
★4.9
MOVIE2005
A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton
★6.2
MOVIE2014
Learning to Drive
as Darwan
★5.1
MOVIE2004
Thunderbirds
as The Hood
★7.1
MOVIE1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini
★6.4
MOVIE1988
Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali
★6.2
MOVIE2017
An Ordinary Man
as The General
★5.9
MOVIE2022
Dalíland
as Dalí
★6.7
MOVIE2002
Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit
★7.1
MOVIE1994
Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
★7.5
MOVIE1990
Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
★5.0
MOVIE2019
Spider in the Web
as Adereth
★5.5
MOVIE2004
Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan
★4.8
MOVIE2015
Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe
★6.4
MOVIE1997
The Assignment
as Amos
★5.4
MOVIE2000
What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon
★7.0
MOVIE1996
Twelfth Night
as Feste
★7.1
MOVIE2023
Jules
as Milton Robinson
★6.7
MOVIE1988
Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson
★7.9
MOVIE1994
Liberation
as Narrator
★6.5
MOVIE2013
Muse of Fire
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE2021
Locked Down
as Malcolm
★10.0
MOVIE2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIETBA
The Way of the Wind
★5.6
MOVIE2007
The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1988
Lenin: The Train
as Lenin
★5.5
MOVIE1999
Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli
MOVIE1993
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
★7.5
MOVIE2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE1999
The Confession
as Harry Fertig
★7.6
MOVIE2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1997
Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton
★6.4
MOVIE2008
The Wackness
as Dr. Squires
MOVIE1985
To Be Hamlet
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE1990
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governor
★6.5
MOVIE1998
Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry
★7.8
MOVIE1975
Antony and Cleopatra
as Thidias
★7.2
MOVIE2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self
MOVIE2018
Inside the Operation
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE1984
Camille
as Duval
MOVIE1983
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE2013
A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad
★5.3
MOVIE2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson
★5.5
MOVIE2008
War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy
★5.7
MOVIE1998
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd
★6.3
MOVIE1985
Turtle Diary
as William Snow
★6.0
MOVIE2002
Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni
★5.9
MOVIE1972
Fear Is the Key
as Royale
★6.0
MOVIE2015
Life
as Jack Warner
★4.3
MOVIE1989
Slipstream
as Avatar
★6.1
MOVIE2007
You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk
MOVIETBA
Fortitude
★8.0
MOVIE1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford
★6.1
MOVIE1983
Betrayal
as Robert
★8.5
MOVIE2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2001
The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates
★3.8
MOVIE2010
Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg
★6.4
MOVIE2010
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator
★4.7
MOVIE2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
★10.0
MOVIE2022
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self
MOVIE2001
The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2005
Peace Is Every Step
as Narrator
★5.9
MOVIE1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal
★8.2
MOVIE2001
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator
★5.7
MOVIE2013
A Common Man
as The Man
★8.3
MOVIE1999
A Force More Powerful
as Narator
★5.2
MOVIE1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger
MOVIE2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)
★7.8
MOVIE2003
Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator
★5.8
MOVIE2009
Journey to Mecca
as Narrator
★4.9
MOVIE1990
The Children
as Martin Boyne
MOVIE2016
Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE2001
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
as Self - Interviewee
★5.8
MOVIE2006
Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower
★5.0
MOVIE1991
The War That Never Ends
as Pericles
★5.0
MOVIE2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self
MOVIE2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
MOVIE1989
The Making of Slipstream
★5.9
MOVIE1985
Silas Marner
as Silas Marner
★4.4
MOVIE1985
Harem
as Selim
★9.2
MOVIE1991
Necessary Love
★6.6
MOVIE2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1973
Hard Labour
as Naseem
MOVIE2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self
MOVIE1979
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
as Ivanov
★2.7
MOVIE2010
Aral, the Lost Sea
★4.1
MOVIE2014
War Story
as Albert
★6.0
MOVIE2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
MOVIE1978
Thank You, Comrades
as Roberto Cibrario
★7.3
MOVIE2019
The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2012
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator
★7.7
MOVIE2007
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
as Self
MOVIE2003
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator
MOVIE2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1994
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE1988
Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich
MOVIE2006
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2012
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
as Self
MOVIETBA
Mary
as King Herod
★6.0
MOVIE2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as Self
MOVIE1991
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2004
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE2006
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as Self
MOVIE2003
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
MOVIE1991
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2006
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
★5.5
MOVIE2010
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian