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).
213 acting credits
Acting · 213
The Sopranos
1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Schindler's List
1993
Iron Man 3
2013
Bambi
1948
Playhouse
1974
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Shutter Island
2010
The Oscars
1953
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
Lip Sync Battle
2015
Goldene Kamera
1984
Wonder Man
2026
Dispatches
1987
The Secret of the Sahara
1988
The Dictator
2012
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021
World in Action
1963
The Jungle Book
2016
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
2027
Rove
1999
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Sneakers
1992
Self/less
2015
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010
Deep Water
2026
Species
1995
The King of Kings
2025
Pebble Mill at One
1972
Hugo
2011
The Adventurer
1972
Seitenblicke
1987
The Killer's Game
2024
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
William Tell
2025
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
The Boxtrolls
2014
Watership Down
2018
Ender's Game
2013
Tut
2015
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
The Physician
2013
Night Hunter
2019
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
HARDtalk
1997
Joseph
1995
Security
2017
The Walk
2015
War Machine
2017
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Desert Warrior
2026
Gandhi
1982
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
Dave
1993
Spielberg
2017
Dickens of London
1976
Sexy Beast
2001
Collide
2016
The Last Legion
2007
Operation Finale
2018
Maurice
1987
BloodRayne
2005
Bugsy
1991
Suspect Zero
2004
Jules
2023
Poison
2023
Oxbridge Blues
1984
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
Oliver Twist
2005
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Tuck Everlasting
2002
Young Washington
2026
Thunderbirds
2004
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
The Love Guru
2008
Locked Down
2021
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015
Unity
2015
House of Sand and Fog
2003
Elegy
2008
The Assignment
1997
Rules of Engagement
2000
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001
Moses
1996
The Love School
1975
Knight of Cups
2015
All or Nothing: Manchester City
2018
Robot Overlords
2015
CNN Millennium
1999
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
Twelfth Night
1996
A Sound of Thunder
2005
TransSiberian
2008
Lenin... The Train
1988
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018
An Ordinary Man
2017
Wessex Tales
1973
Without a Clue
1988
Death and the Maiden
1994
Life
2015
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Walking with the Enemy
2014
The Old Stories: Moses
2026
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
Parting Shots
1999
Joseph
1995
What Planet Are You From?
2000
You Kill Me
2007
Dalíland
2022
The Confession
1999
Learning to Drive
2014
War, Inc.
2008
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Mrs. Harris
2006
The Ten Commandments
2007
Slipstream
1989
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
The Fifth Monkey
1990
The Wackness
2008
The Way of the Wind
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Religions of the World
1998
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
A Common Man
2013
Teen Patti
2010
Muse of Fire
2013
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
Spider in the Web
2019
Spooky House
2002
The War That Never Ends
1991
Fear Is the Key
1972
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
Harem
1985
War Story
2014
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Religion of the World
2004
The Triumph of Love
2001
Lenin: The Train
1988
Photographing Fairies
1997
Pascali's Island
1988
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
Camille
1984
Der Medicus
2014
Journey to Mecca
2009
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013
Betrayal
1983
Turtle Diary
1985
Romeo.Juliet
1990
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012
The Making of Slipstream
1989
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
Liberation
1994
Testimony
1988
To Be Hamlet
1985
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012
Hard Labour
1973
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012
Crime and Punishment
1998
Antony and Cleopatra
1975
The Children
1990
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
2007
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018
Fortitude
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1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
2010
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
2010
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
Silas Marner
1985
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
1991
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
2006
Of Dogs and Men
2016
Peace Is Every Step
2005
The Making of Sexy Beast
2001
Inside the Operation
2018
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
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979
Aral, the Lost Sea
2010
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006
Mary
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The Medicine Buddha
2019
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
1991
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
2006
Unlikely Heroes
2003
A Force More Powerful
1999
Necessary Love
1991
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
2001
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
2003