Ben Kingsley
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).
Movies (159)
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
2027
Young Washington
2026
Deep Water
2026
Desert Warrior
2026
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
The King of Kings
2025
William Tell
2025
The Killer's Game
2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
Poison
2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
Jules
2023
Dalíland
2022
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
Locked Down
2021
The Medicine Buddha
2019
Night Hunter
2019
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
Spider in the Web
2019
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018
Operation Finale
2018
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018
An Ordinary Man
2017
Spielberg
2017
War Machine
2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
Security
2017
Of Dogs and Men
2016
Collide
2016
The Jungle Book
2016
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
The Walk
2015
Knight of Cups
2015
Life
2015
Unity
2015
Self/less
2015
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
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
Walking with the Enemy
2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
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
The Dictator
2012
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012
Hugo
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
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
Journey to Mecca
2009
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
Elegy
2008
The Wackness
2008
The Love Guru
2008
War, Inc.
2008
TransSiberian
2008
The Ten Commandments
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
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Mrs. Harris
2006
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006
BloodRayne
2005
Oliver Twist
2005
A Sound of Thunder
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Suspect Zero
2004
Thunderbirds
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
House of Sand and Fog
2003
Unlikely Heroes
2003
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
2003
Tuck Everlasting
2002
Spooky House
2002
The Triumph of Love
2001
The Making of Sexy Beast
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
Sexy Beast
2001
Rules of Engagement
2000
What Planet Are You From?
2000
Parting Shots
1999
The Confession
1999
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Crime and Punishment
1998
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998
The Assignment
1997
Photographing Fairies
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
Twelfth Night
1996
Species
1995
Joseph
1995
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
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
1991
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
1991
The War That Never Ends
1991
The Fifth Monkey
1990
The Children
1990
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
Romeo.Juliet
1990
The Making of Slipstream
1989
Slipstream
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Lenin: The Train
1988
Testimony
1988
Pascali's Island
1988
Without a Clue
1988
Maurice
1987
Silas Marner
1985
Turtle Diary
1985
Harem
1985
To Be Hamlet
1985
Camille
1984
Betrayal
1983
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Gandhi
1982
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979
Antony and Cleopatra
1975
Hard Labour
1973
Fear Is the Key
1972
The Way of the Wind
TV Shows (43)
The Old Stories: Moses
2026
Wonder Man
2026
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
Watership Down
2018
All or Nothing: Manchester City
2018
Tut
2015
Lip Sync Battle
2015
Der Medicus
2014
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Religion of the World
2004
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
CNN Millennium
1999
Rove
1999
The Sopranos
1999
Religions of the World
1998
HARDtalk
1997
Moses
1996
Joseph
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Lenin... The Train
1988
The Secret of the Sahara
1988
Dispatches
1987
Oxbridge Blues
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Dickens of London
1976
The Love School
1975
Playhouse
1974
Wessex Tales
1973
Pebble Mill at One
1972
The Adventurer
1972
World in Action
1963
The Oscars
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Bambi
1948
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944