
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).

Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern

Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery

Desert Warrior
as Emperor Kisra II

Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery

The Dictator
as Tamir

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)

The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)

Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun

Sonic the Hedgehog 4
as (voice)

The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Nizam

Species
as Xavier Fitch

Hugo
as Georges Méliès

Sneakers
as Cosmo

Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi

Self/less
as Damian

The Boxtrolls
as Snatcher (voice)

The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim

Deep Water
as Rich

Security
as Charlie

Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham

Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi

The Physician
as Ibn Sina

Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb

William Tell
as King Albrecht

The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)

Night Hunter
as Cooper

War Machine
as President Karzai

Elegy
as David Kepesh

Joseph
as Potiphar

Maurice
as Lasker-Jones

The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus

Oliver Twist
as Fagin

Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)

Unity
as Narrator (voice)

The Walk
as Papa Rudy

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier

Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky

Thunderbirds
as The Hood

Locked Down
as Malcolm

Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit

Collide
as Geran

Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann

Young Washington
as Robert Dinwiddie

Jules
as Milton Robinson

Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini

The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin

Sexy Beast
as Don Logan

Twelfth Night
as Feste

Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain

TransSiberian
as Grinko

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin

War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy

The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha

Dave
as Vice-President Nance

Spielberg
as Self

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)

The Assignment
as Amos

Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar

Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan

House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani

BloodRayne
as Kagan

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)

Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai

A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)

Dalíland
as Dalí

Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe

Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self

The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff

The Children
as Martin Boyne

50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self

Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg

Learning to Drive
as Darwan

Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self

What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon

Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus

Life
as Jack Warner

Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda

The Wackness
as Dr. Squires

An Ordinary Man
as The General

A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad

Muse of Fire
as Self

Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni

The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)

The Confession
as Harry Fertig

Slipstream
as Avatar

You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk

Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson

The Way of the Wind

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal

Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy

Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali

Spider in the Web
as Adereth

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self

Harem
as Selim

Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger

Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governor

Camille
as Duval

Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower

Journey to Mecca
as Narrator

An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)

The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford

Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton

The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda

No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
as Self

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
as Self

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)

Betrayal
as Robert

Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self

Silas Marner
as Silas Marner

The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates

Fortitude

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self

Liberation
as Narrator

Lenin: The Train
as Lenin

A Common Man
as The Man

Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry

Turtle Diary
as William Snow

Fear Is the Key
as Royale

The War That Never Ends
as Pericles

The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian

War Story
as Albert

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
as Self

The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator

Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as Self

The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice

Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich

Aral, the Lost Sea

The Making of Slipstream

Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self

Antony and Cleopatra
as Thidias

To Be Hamlet
as Self

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self

Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
as Ivanov

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self

Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)

Inside the Operation
as Self

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as Self

Peace Is Every Step
as Narrator

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self

Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)

Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)

The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as Self

Hard Labour
as Naseem

Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator

The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)

A Force More Powerful
as Narator

Necessary Love

Mary
as King Herod

Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator

Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)

The Life and Faith of CS Lewis

Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
as Self - Interviewee