Ben Kingsley
Known for Acting · 213 credits
- Born
- 1943-12-31 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Sir Ben Kingsley · Krishna Pandit Bhanji · Krishna Bhanji
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).
Known For
TV Shows (44)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Sopranos
1999
as Ben Kingsley
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member
Bambi
1948
as Self
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Playhouse
1974
as Ivanov
Lip Sync Battle
2015
as Self
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
The Oscars
1953
as Self - Presenter
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Wonder Man
2026
as Trevor Slattery
World in Action
1963
as Re-enactment
Dispatches
1987
Pebble Mill at One
1972
Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021
as Self
Rove
1999
as Self
Seitenblicke
1987
as Self
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
The Adventurer
1972
as Pierre
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
as Ben Kingsley
Watership Down
2018
as General Woundwort (voice)
HARDtalk
1997
Tut
2015
as Ay
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Duval
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Religions of the World
1998
as Narrator
Dickens of London
1976
as Dr. John Elliotson
The Old Stories: Moses
2026
as Moses
The Love School
1975
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Secret of the Sahara
1988
as Sholomon
Oxbridge Blues
1984
as Geoff Craven
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001
as Otto Frank
Moses
1996
as Moses
All or Nothing: Manchester City
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Wessex Tales
1973
as Lord Uplandtowers
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Joseph
1995
as Potiphar
Der Medicus
2014
as Ibn Sina
Lenin... The Train
1988
as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
Religion of the World
2004
as Narrator
CNN Millennium
1999
as Narrator
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001
as Narrator
Movies (169)
Schindler's List
1993
as Itzhak Stern
Desert Warrior
2026
as Emperor Kisra II
Iron Man 3
2013
as Trevor Slattery
Shutter Island
2010
as Dr. Cawley
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
as Trevor Slattery
The Dictator
2012
as Tamir
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
as Merenkahre
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Specialist (voice)
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
2027
as (voice)
The Jungle Book
2016
as Bagheera (voice)
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Nun
Sneakers
1992
as Cosmo
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010
as Nizam
The Killer's Game
2024
as Zvi Rabinowitz
Species
1995
as Xavier Fitch
Hugo
2011
as Georges Méliès
Deep Water
2026
as Rich
The Boxtrolls
2014
as Snatcher (voice)
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
as The Rabbi
Self/less
2015
as Damian
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
as Ibrahim
Gandhi
1982
as Mahatma Gandhi
Security
2017
as Charlie
The Physician
2013
as Ibn Sina
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
as Silas Lamb
Ender's Game
2013
as Mazer Rackham
Night Hunter
2019
as Cooper
William Tell
2025
as King Albrecht
The King of Kings
2025
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
War Machine
2017
as President Karzai
Joseph
1995
as Potiphar
Elegy
2008
as David Kepesh
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Walk
2015
as Papa Rudy
Maurice
1987
as Lasker-Jones
The Last Legion
2007
as Ambrosinus
Oliver Twist
2005
as Fagin
Young Washington
2026
as Robert Dinwiddie
Operation Finale
2018
as Adolf Eichmann
Thunderbirds
2004
as The Hood
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
Knight of Cups
2015
as Storyteller (voice)
Jules
2023
as Milton Robinson
Bugsy
1991
as Meyer Lansky
Locked Down
2021
as Malcolm
Twelfth Night
1996
as Feste
War, Inc.
2008
as Walken / The Viceroy
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
Sexy Beast
2001
as Don Logan
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
as Bruce Pandolfini
Tuck Everlasting
2002
as Man in the Yellow Suit
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Collide
2016
as Geran
Rules of Engagement
2000
as Ambassador Mourain
Suspect Zero
2004
as Benjamin O'Ryan
TransSiberian
2008
as Grinko
The Love Guru
2008
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
as Ethan Levin
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
Dave
1993
as Vice-President Nance
The Assignment
1997
as Amos
Alice in Wonderland
1999
as Major Caterpillar
Dalíland
2022
as Dalí
House of Sand and Fog
2003
as Behrani
Poison
2023
as Dr. Ganderbai
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015
as Drago (Voice)
A Sound of Thunder
2005
as Charles Hatton
BloodRayne
2005
as Kagan
Robot Overlords
2015
as Robin Smythe
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018
as Pasha
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
as Woodruff
Life
2015
as Jack Warner
The Children
1990
as Martin Boyne
Teen Patti
2010
as Perci Trachtenberg
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
as Self
What Planet Are You From?
2000
as Graydon
Parting Shots
1999
as Renzo Locatelli
Learning to Drive
2014
as Darwan
The Confession
1999
as Harry Fertig
Death and the Maiden
1994
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Slipstream
1989
as Avatar
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
as Fergus
Walking with the Enemy
2014
as Regent Miklos Horthy
An Ordinary Man
2017
as The General
Spooky House
2002
as The Great Zamboni
The Wackness
2008
as Dr. Squires
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
as Julian Messenger
Spider in the Web
2019
as Adereth
You Kill Me
2007
as Frank Falenczyk
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Simon Wiesenthal
Pascali's Island
1988
as Basil Pascali
Without a Clue
1988
as Dr. John Watson
The Fifth Monkey
1990
as Cunda
The Way of the Wind
The Ten Commandments
2007
as Narrator (voice)
A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013
as Lawrence Konrad
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Self
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
as Frank Ford
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
as Governor
Mrs. Harris
2006
as Herman Tarnower
Harem
1985
as Selim
Liberation
1994
as Narrator
Photographing Fairies
1997
as Rev. Templeton
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Camille
1984
as Duval
Turtle Diary
1985
as William Snow
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
2004
as Self
Betrayal
1983
as Robert
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
2007
as Self
Journey to Mecca
2009
as Narrator
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
as Self
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018
as Henderson
Fortitude
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Silas Marner
1985
as Silas Marner
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
as Self
About 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… With 213 credits spanning from 1944 to 2027, Ben Kingsley has appeared in 169 films and 44 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ben Kingsley Movies
- Schindler's List (1993) — as Itzhak Stern
- Desert Warrior (2026) — as Emperor Kisra II
- Iron Man 3 (2013) — as Trevor Slattery
- Shutter Island (2010) — as Dr. Cawley
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) — as Trevor Slattery
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