Ben Kingsley

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 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Deep Water
2026
Dalíland
2022
Executive Producer
Shutter Island
2010
Dr. Cawley
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010
Nizam
Teen Patti
2010
Perci Trachtenberg
TransSiberian
2008
Grinko
Elegy
2008
David Kepesh
The Love Guru
2008
Guru Tugginmypuddha
War, Inc.
2008
Walken / The Viceroy
The Wackness
2008
Dr. Squires
The Ten Commandments
2007
Narrator (voice)
You Kill Me
2007
Frank Falenczyk
The Last Legion
2007
Ambrosinus
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
The Rabbi
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
2006
Self
Oliver Twist
2005
Fagin
A Sound of Thunder
2005
Charles Hatton
Suspect Zero
2004
Benjamin O'Ryan
House of Sand and Fog
2003
Behrani
Tuck Everlasting
2002
Man in the Yellow Suit
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
Specialist (voice)
The Triumph of Love
2001
Hermocrates
What Planet Are You From?
2000
Graydon
Rules of Engagement
2000
Ambassador Mourain
Sexy Beast
2000
Don Logan
The Confession
1999
Harry Fertig
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Major Caterpillar
Joseph
1995
Potifar
Species
1995
Xavier Fitch
Death and the Maiden
1994
Dr. Roberto Miranda
Schindler's List
1993
Itzhak Stern
Dave
1993
Vice-President Nance
Sneakers
1992
Cosmo
Bugsy
1991
Meyer Lansky
Lenin: The Train
1990
Lenin
Slipstream
1989
Avatar
Without a Clue
1988
Dr. John Watson
Maurice
1987
Lasker-Jones
To Be Hamlet
1985
Self
Harem
1985
Selim
Gandhi
1982
Mahatma Gandhi
Fear Is the Key
1972
Royale
William Tell
2025
King Albrecht
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
Ibrahim Arif
The King of Kings
2025
High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
The Killer's Game
2024
Zvi Rabinowitz
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
Jules
2023
Milton Robinson
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
Imdad Khan / Croupier
Poison
2023
Dr. Ganderbai
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
Self
Locked Down
2021
Malcolm
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
Trevor Slattery
Night Hunter
2019
Cooper
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
Ethan Levin
Spider in the Web
2019
Adereth
The Medicine Buddha
2019
Narrator (voice)
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018
Pasha
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
Henderson
Operation Finale
2018
Adolf Eichmann
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
Self
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Self
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018
Self
An Ordinary Man
2017
The General
War Machine
2017
President Karzai
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
Woodruff
Security
2017
Charlie
Spielberg
2017
Self
The Jungle Book
2016
Bagheera (voice)
Collide
2016
Geran
Of Dogs and Men
2016
The Caller (voice)
Self/less
2015
Damian
The Walk
2015
Papa Rudy
Life
2015
Jack Warner
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015
Drago (Voice)
Unity
2015
Narrator (voice)
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
Self (archive footage)
Knight of Cups
2015
Storyteller (voice)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
Merenkahre
The Boxtrolls
2014
Snatcher (voice)
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
Robot Overlords
2014
Robin Smythe
War Story
2014
Albert
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
Self (archive footage)
Walking with the Enemy
2014
Regent Miklos Horthy
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
Nun
Learning to Drive
2014
Darwan
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
Silas Lamb
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
Self
Iron Man 3
2013
Trevor Slattery
Ender's Game
2013
Mazer Rackham
A Common Man
2013
The Man
The Physician
2013
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013
Lawrence Konrad
Muse of Fire
2013
Self
The Dictator
2012
Tamir
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
2012
Narrator
A Therapy
2012
Therapist
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012
Self
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
Self
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012
Self
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012
Self
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
Self
Hugo
2011
Georges Méliès
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
Voice
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
2010
Self
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
2010
Narrator
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
2010
Al-Jazari / Librarian
Journey to Mecca
2009
Narrator
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
Fergus
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Self
Mrs. Harris
2006
Herman Tarnower
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
2006
Self
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
2006
Self
BloodRayne
2005
Kagan
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Self
Thunderbirds
2004
The Hood
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Self
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
Unlikely Heroes
2003
Narrator
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
Self
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
2003
Narrator
Spooky House
2002
The Great Zamboni
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
Self - Narrator
The Making of Sexy Beast
2001
Self
Parting Shots
1999
Renzo Locatelli
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998
Sweeney Todd
Crime and Punishment
1998
Magistrate Porfiry
The Assignment
1997
Amos
Photographing Fairies
1997
Rev. Templeton
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
Julian Messenger
Twelfth Night
1996
Feste
Liberation
1994
Narrator
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
Self
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
Bruce Pandolfini
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
1992
Freddie (voice)
Necessary Love
1991
The War That Never Ends
1991
Pericles
The Children
1990
Martin Boyne
The Fifth Monkey
1990
Cunda
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
Governatore
Romeo.Juliet
1990
Father Capulet (voice)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Simon Wiesenthal
The Making of Slipstream
1989
Testimony
1988
Dmitri Shostakovich
Pascali's Island
1988
Basil Pascali
Silas Marner
1985
Silas Marner
Turtle Diary
1985
William Snow
Camille
1984
Duval
Schindler
1983
Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)
Betrayal
1983
Robert
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979
Ivanov
Hard Labour
1973
Naseem
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Frank Ford
Antony and Cleopatra
1975
Thidias
The Way of the Wind