Ben Kingsley

Acting · 5.4 popularity

Age

Movies

170

Born: December 31, 1943
From: Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

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).

Works

170 films

Deep Water

20267.2

Iron Man 3

20136.9

Schindler's List

19938.6

Shutter Island

20108.2

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

20217.5

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

20146.2

The Thursday Murder Club

20256.6

Self/less

20156.4

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

20017.1

The Dictator

20126.2

Desert Warrior

20265.8

Exodus: Gods and Kings

20145.9

The Jungle Book

20166.9

Ender's Game

20136.6

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

20106.3

Sneakers

19926.9

Young Washington

20268.2

Sonic the Hedgehog 4

2027

Species

19956.0

The Walk

20157.0

Stonehearst Asylum

20146.9

The Boxtrolls

20146.7

Hugo

20117.2

Lucky Number Slevin

20067.5

The Killer's Game

20246.4

War Machine

20175.6

The Physician

20137.3

Night Hunter

20196.6

William Tell

20256.2

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

20237.3

Robot Overlords

20154.8

The King of Kings

20258.3

Joseph

19958.2

Poison

20236.9

The Last Legion

20075.6

Security

20176.3

Gandhi

19827.6

Oliver Twist

20056.8

Sexy Beast

20017.0

Maurice

19877.6

The Love Guru

20084.1

Rules of Engagement

20006.2

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

20146.8

Dave

19936.7

Thunderbirds

20045.1

Jules

20237.1

Knight of Cups

20155.7

Operation Finale

20186.7

Alice in Wonderland

19996.2

Locked Down

20215.2

Searching for Bobby Fischer

19937.1

Collide

20165.6

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

20155.4

Suspect Zero

20045.5

Tuck Everlasting

20026.7

The Red Sea Diving Resort

20196.8

House of Sand and Fog

20037.2

Bugsy

19916.3

War, Inc.

20085.5

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood

2006

Death and the Maiden

19947.1

Backstabbing for Beginners

20186.2

The Ottoman Lieutenant

20176.0

The Assignment

19976.4

You Kill Me

20076.1

Spider in the Web

20195.0

BloodRayne

20054.1

A Sound of Thunder

20054.9

Elegy

20086.3

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

20247.4

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

TransSiberian

20086.4

Without a Clue

19886.7

Life

20156.0

Dalíland

20225.9

Walking with the Enemy

20146.3

What Planet Are You From?

20005.4

Spielberg

20177.5

Twelfth Night

19967.0

The Fifth Monkey

19909.0

50 Films to See Before You Die

20068.4

The Wackness

20086.4

Liberation

19947.9

Learning to Drive

20146.2

Pascali's Island

19886.4

To Be Hamlet

1985

An Ordinary Man

20176.2

Unity

20157.5

Fortitude

2026

Fifty Dead Men Walking

20086.3

The Confession

19995.8

The Ten Commandments

20075.6

Lenin: The Train

19886.4

A Birder's Guide to Everything

20135.8

Intrigo: Death of an Author

20185.3

Muse of Fire

20136.5

Parting Shots

19995.5

Weapons of Mass Distraction

19975.2

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

2012

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

202210.0

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

199410.0

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

19925.3

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

1983

Romeo.Juliet

19907.5

The Merry Wives of Windsor

19828.0

A Common Man

20135.7

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

20187.3

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

20126.0

Slipstream

19894.3

Mrs. Harris

20055.8

Camille

19845.5

Cellini: A Violent Life

19905.4

An Oral History of: Schindler's List

2018

Fear Is the Key

19725.9

Photographing Fairies

19975.7

The Triumph of Love

20016.1

The Desert of Forbidden Art

20114.7

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

1979

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

20077.7

Harem

19854.4

The War That Never Ends

19915.0

The Making of Sexy Beast

2001

The Way of the Wind

2026

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

20037.5

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

20126.0

The Life and Faith of CS Lewis

2006

Unlikely Heroes

20037.8

The Making of Slipstream

1989

The Children

19904.9

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

19985.7

Betrayal

19836.1

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny

20106.4

Crime and Punishment

19986.5

Turtle Diary

19856.3

Silas Marner

19855.9

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

2003

War Story

20144.1

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

20126.0

Peace Is Every Step

200510.0

Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver

1991

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

19895.9

Spooky House

20026.0

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

20067.5

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

20046.6

Of Dogs and Men

2016

The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream

1993

Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land

2003

Thank You, Comrades

1978

Journey to Mecca

20095.8

Antony and Cleopatra

19757.8

Who Killed British Cinema?

20185.0

No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds

2004

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl

2012

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel

2006

Teen Patti

20103.8

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

20105.5

Hard Labour

19736.7

Necessary Love

19919.2

Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"

200110.0

Inside the Operation

2018

Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin

1991

The Medicine Buddha

20197.3

Testimony

19885.6

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

2012

Islam: Empire of Faith

20018.2

A Force More Powerful

19998.3

Mary

2026

Aral, the Lost Sea

20102.7