
Ben Kingsley
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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).
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Known For

The Oscars

Golden Globe Awards

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Sopranos

Entertainment Tonight

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Marvel Studios Assembled

Marvel Studios Legends

Lip Sync Battle

Knight of Cups

Schindler

War Machine

Maurice

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

The Love Guru

The Red Sea Diving Resort

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

William Tell

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

Iron Man 3

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Locked Down

Tuck Everlasting

Dave

Sneakers

Fear Is the Key

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

The Killer's Game

Stonehearst Asylum

Ender's Game

Life

The Ottoman Lieutenant

Rules of Engagement

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Bugsy

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

Collide

Thunderbirds

Shutter Island

Walking with the Enemy

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

The Jungle Book

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Sexy Beast

Hugo

Species

Wonder Man

Suspect Zero

Security

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Self/less

Elegy

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

The Walk

Deep Water

Night Hunter

The Dictator

Schindler's List

Religions of the World

Gandhi

The Boxtrolls

Dalíland

All or Nothing: Manchester City

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
Production Credits
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