Ben Kingsley

Known for ActingBorn 1943-12-31 (age 82)Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

The Old Stories: Moses

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

Peace Is Every Step

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

Playing Shakespeare

Necessary Love

The Fifth Monkey

The Sopranos

HARDtalk

50 Films to See Before You Die

The King of Kings

Schindler's List

Bambi

A Force More Powerful

Shutter Island

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Islam: Empire of Faith

Joseph

Religions of the World

Seitenblicke

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Liberation

Unlikely Heroes

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

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Spielberg

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Unity

Marvel Studios Legends

Inside the Actors Studio

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

Antony and Cleopatra

Lucky Number Slevin

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Perpetual Grace LTD

The Medicine Buddha

Rove

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Maurice

The Physician

Marvel Studios Assembled

Romeo.Juliet

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Gandhi

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

All or Nothing: Manchester City