Biography
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received various accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. In 2010, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2013, he received the Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment.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 (including Peter Brook's 1970 RSC production of the play), Hamlet and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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. He also appeared as Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), receiving a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Subsequent roles have included Twelfth Night (1996), Sexy Beast (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Thunderbirds (2004), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Shutter Island (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Hugo (2011), The Dictator (2012), and Ender's Game (2013). 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. Kingsley also voiced the antagonistic Archibald Snatcher in The Boxtrolls (2014), and Bagheera in the live-action adaptation of Disney's The Jungle Book (2016).
Filmography
All 183
Movies 145
TV Shows 38
Self 34
Narrator 12
Voice 5

Dalíland (2022)

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Marvel Studios Assembled (2021)

Locked Down (2021)

The Medicine Buddha (2019)

Night Hunter (2019)

The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)

Perpetual Grace LTD (2019)

Spider in the Web (2019)

Watership Down (2018)

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later (2018)

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

Inside The Operation (2018)

Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)

Operation Finale (2018)

All or Nothing: Manchester City (2018)

Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)

Who Killed British Cinema? (2018)

An Ordinary Man (2017)

Spielberg (2017)

War Machine (2017)

The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)

Security (2017)

Collide (2016)

The Jungle Book (2016)

Of Dogs and Men (2016)

The Walk (2015)

Unity (2015)

Life (2015)

Tut (2015)

Self/less (2015)

Lip Sync Battle (2015)

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (2015)

Knight of Cups (2015)

Robot Overlords (2015)

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

The Boxtrolls (2014)

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)

Learning to Drive (2014)

Garfunkel and Oates (2014)

Walking with the Enemy (2014)

Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

War Story (2014)

The Physician (2013)

Ender's Game (2013)

Muse of Fire (2013)

A Common Man (2013)

A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)

Iron Man 3 (2013)

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl (2012)

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (2012)

A Therapy (2012)

The Dictator (2012)

Hugo (2011)

The Desert of Forbidden Art (2011)

Aral, the Lost Sea (2010)

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2010)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

Teen Patti (2010)

Shutter Island (2010)

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets (2010)

Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)

Elegy (2008)

The Wackness (2008)

The Love Guru (2008)

War, Inc. (2008)

TransSiberian (2008)

The Ten Commandments (2007)

China's Stolen Children (2007)

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)

The Last Legion (2007)

You Kill Me (2007)

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia (2006)

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel (2006)

The One Show (2006)

Mrs. Harris (2006)

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

The Life and Faith of CS Lewis (2006)

Peace Is Every Step (2005)

BloodRayne (2005)

Oliver Twist (2005)

A Sound of Thunder (2005)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)

Suspect Zero (2004)

Thunderbirds (2004)

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)

Religion of the World (2004)

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Unlikely Heroes (2003)

Tuck Everlasting (2002)

Spooky House (2002)

The Triumph of Love (2001)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

Islam: Empire of Faith (2001)

Islam: Empire of Faith (2001)

Sexy Beast (2000)

Rules of Engagement (2000)

What Planet Are You From? (2000)

A Force More Powerful (1999)

CNN Millennium (1999)

Rove (1999)

Parting Shots (1999)

The Confession (1999)

Alice in Wonderland (1999)

The Sopranos (1999)

Crime and Punishment (1998)

The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998)

Religions of the World (1998)

Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)

The Assignment (1997)

Photographing Fairies (1997)

Twelfth Night (1996)

Moses (1996)

Moses (1995)

Species (1995)

Joseph (1995)

Joseph (1995)

Inside the Actors Studio (1994)

Death and the Maiden (1994)

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold (1994)

Liberation (1994)

Schindler's List (1993)

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Dave (1993)

Sneakers (1992)

Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992)

Bugsy (1991)

Necessary Love (1991)

The Fifth Monkey (1990)

The Children (1990)

Cellini: A Violent Life (1990)

Lenin: The Train (1990)

Romeo.Juliet (1990)

Slipstream (1989)

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989)

Lenin... The Train (1988)

Testimony (1988)

Pascali's Island (1988)

Without a Clue (1988)

The Secret of the Sahara (1988)

Seitenblicke (1987)

Maurice (1987)

Silas Marner (1985)

Turtle Diary (1985)

Harem (1985)

To Be Hamlet (1985)

Camille (1984)

Oxbridge Blues (1984)

Playing Shakespeare (1984)

Schindler (1983)

Betrayal (1983)

The Making of Gandhi: Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi (1983)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982)

Gandhi (1982)

Wetten, dass..? (1981)

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1979)

BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)

Dickens Of London (1976)

Antony and Cleopatra (1975)

Playhouse (1974)

Wessex Tales (1973)

Hard Labour (1973)

Fear Is the Key (1972)

Pebble Mill at One (1972)

Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)

Pardon the Expression (1965)

Orlando (1965)

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

Bambi Awards (1948)

Untitled Wes Anderson/Roald Dahl Film

The Way of the Wind

Wonder Man

The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream

Mary

Alice in Wonderland

Desert Warrior

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

Jules
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Information
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1943-12-31 (79 years old)
Birth nameKrishna Pandit Bhanji
Place of birthSnainton, United Kingdom
ReligionAtheism in Hinduism
Net worth$60000000
RelationshipsAlison Sutcliffe (1978-07-01 - 1992-02-01), Angela Morant (1966-01-01 - 1976-01-01)
SpouseDaniela Lavender
ChildrenFerdinand Kingsley
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also known as Sir Ben Kingsley , Krishna Pandit Bhanji, بن كينغسلي, 벤 킹즐리, ベン・キングズレー, เบน คิงสลีย์, 本·金斯利, Бен Кингсли, Krishna Bhanji, Σερ Μπεν Κίνγκσλεϊ, Μπεν Κίνγκσλεϊ, बेन किंग्सले, Сер Бен Кингсли
AwardsLondon Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year, National Board of Review Award for Best Actor, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, Padma Shri in arts, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film, BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, European Film Award for Best Actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, Knight Bachelor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Academy Award for Best Actor
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