Ben Kingsley

Acting · 5.3 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

Young Washington

20268.2

The Walk

20157.0

Sonic the Hedgehog 4

2027

Sneakers

19926.9

Species

19956.0

Stonehearst Asylum

20146.9

The Boxtrolls

20146.7

Hugo

20117.2

The Killer's Game

20246.4

Lucky Number Slevin

20067.5

Night Hunter

20196.6

War Machine

20175.6

The Physician

20137.3

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

20237.3

William Tell

20256.2

The King of Kings

20258.3

Poison

20236.9

The Last Legion

20075.6

Oliver Twist

20056.8

Sexy Beast

20017.0

Joseph

19958.2

Gandhi

19827.6

Security

20176.3

The Love Guru

20084.1

Thunderbirds

20045.1

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

20146.8

Operation Finale

20186.7

Maurice

19877.6

Knight of Cups

20155.7

Suspect Zero

20045.5

Rules of Engagement

20006.2

Jules

20237.1

Searching for Bobby Fischer

19937.1

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

20155.4

Dave

19936.7

Collide

20165.6

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood

2006

The Red Sea Diving Resort

20196.8

Locked Down

20215.2

Robot Overlords

20154.8

Alice in Wonderland

19996.2

House of Sand and Fog

20037.2

Backstabbing for Beginners

20186.2

Bugsy

19916.3

A Sound of Thunder

20054.9

Without a Clue

19886.7

Tuck Everlasting

20026.7

War, Inc.

20085.5

The Assignment

19976.4

Elegy

20086.3

TransSiberian

20086.4

You Kill Me

20076.1

The Ottoman Lieutenant

20176.0

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

Spider in the Web

20195.0

Death and the Maiden

19947.1

Dalíland

20225.9

Spielberg

20177.5

BloodRayne

20054.1

Walking with the Enemy

20146.3

To Be Hamlet

1985

Learning to Drive

20146.2

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

20247.4

What Planet Are You From?

20005.4

50 Films to See Before You Die

20068.4

Life

20156.0

An Ordinary Man

20176.2

Twelfth Night

19967.0

Unity

20157.5

Fifty Dead Men Walking

20086.3

A Birder's Guide to Everything

20135.8

Lenin: The Train

19886.4

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

199410.0

The Fifth Monkey

19909.0

The Confession

19995.8

Pascali's Island

19886.4

Mrs. Harris

20055.8

The Wackness

20086.4

Muse of Fire

20136.5

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

20126.0

Parting Shots

19995.5

Liberation

19947.9

The War That Never Ends

19915.0

The Ten Commandments

20075.6

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

202210.0

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

19925.3

Intrigo: Death of an Author

20185.3

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

2012

A Common Man

20135.7

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

1983

Weapons of Mass Distraction

19975.2

Fortitude

2026

Camille

19845.5

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

20187.3

Romeo.Juliet

19907.5

Fear Is the Key

19725.9

Photographing Fairies

19975.7

The Desert of Forbidden Art

20114.7

The Merry Wives of Windsor

19828.0

The Way of the Wind

2026

Slipstream

19894.3

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

An Oral History of: Schindler's List

2018

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

20037.5

The Triumph of Love

20016.1

Cellini: A Violent Life

19905.4

Crime and Punishment

19986.5

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

19895.9

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny

20106.4

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

20077.7

Turtle Diary

19856.3

The Making of Sexy Beast

2001

The Children

19904.9

The Making of Slipstream

1989

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

20126.0

Peace Is Every Step

200510.0

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

2003

Silas Marner

19855.9

The Life and Faith of CS Lewis

2006

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

1979

Unlikely Heroes

20037.8

The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream

1993

War Story

20144.1

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

20046.6

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

20126.0

Spooky House

20026.0

Betrayal

19836.1

Harem

19854.4

Necessary Love

19919.2

Testimony

19885.6

Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land

2003

Antony and Cleopatra

19757.8

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl

2012

Of Dogs and Men

2016

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

20067.5

Thank You, Comrades

1978

Journey to Mecca

20095.8

Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin

1991

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

19985.7

Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver

1991

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel

2006

Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"

200110.0

Inside the Operation

2018

Hard Labour

19736.7

Teen Patti

20103.8

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

20105.5

A Force More Powerful

19998.3

Who Killed British Cinema?

20185.0

The Medicine Buddha

20197.3

Islam: Empire of Faith

20018.2

No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds

2004

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

2012

Mary

2026

Aral, the Lost Sea

20102.7