Ben Kingsley
Acting
🎂 1943-12-31
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji) 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).
Cast credits(210)
King Albrecht
2025
Ben Kingsley
1999
Self
2014
Self
2006
Dr. Cawley
2010
Trevor Slattery
2013
Self - Nominee
1944
Self - Audience Member
1944
Self
2005
Itzhak Stern
1993
Trevor Slattery
2021
Self
1981
Ivanov
1974
Self
2015
Nun
2014
Self - Presenter
1953
Merenkahre
2014
Self
1984
Self
1948
Bagheera (voice)
2016
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
2021
Zvi Rabinowitz
2024
Charlie
2017
Tamir
2012
Nizam
2010
Cosmo
1992
Specialist (voice)
2001
Xavier Fitch
1995
Georges Méliès
2011
The Rabbi
2006
Silas Lamb
2014
Mazer Rackham
2013
High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
2025
Self
2021
Damian
2015
Potifar
1995
Ibrahim Arif
2025
Imdad Khan / Croupier
2023
Cooper
2019
Self
1999
Adolf Eichmann
2018
Self
1981
Papa Rudy
2015
Ambrosinus
2007
Ambassador Mourain
2000
Mahatma Gandhi
1982
Snatcher (voice)
2014
Milton Robinson
2023
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
2013
Bruce Pandolfini
1993
Fagin
2005
Pierre
1972
Self (archive footage)
2014
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
2024
Vice-President Nance
1993
President Karzai
2017
Geran
2016
General Woundwort (voice)
2018
Storyteller (voice)
2015
Behrani
2003
Pasha
2018
Ben Kingsley
2014
Man in the Yellow Suit
2002
Lasker-Jones
1987
The General
2017
Ethan Levin
2019
Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
2019
Guru Tugginmypuddha
2008
Dr. Ganderbai
2023
Major Caterpillar
1999
Grinko
2008
Robin Smythe
2014
Ay
2015
1972
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
2014
Meyer Lansky
1991
Kagan
2005
Drago (Voice)
2015
Walken / The Viceroy
2008
Sholomon
1988
The Hood
2004
Dr. John Watson
1988
Trevor Slattery
Benjamin O'Ryan
2004
Narrator
1994
Self
2005
Woodruff
2017
Frank Falenczyk
2007
Self
1987
Charles Hatton
2005
Narrator (voice)
2018
1984
Self
2017
Don Logan
2000
Narrator
2009
Dr. Roberto Miranda
1994
Narrator (voice)
2015
Amos
1997
David Kepesh
2008
DalĂ
2022
Duval
1951
Self
2014
Malcolm
2021
Otto Frank
2001
Dmitri Shostakovich
1988
Governatore
1990
Graydon
2000
Harry Fertig
1999
Jack Warner
2015
Narrator (voice)
2007
Feste
1996
Adereth
2019
Herman Tarnower
2006
Pericles
1991
Self
2018
Self
2012
Robert Dinwiddie
2026
Regent Miklos Horthy
2014
Freddie (voice)
1992
The Man
2013
Self
2012
Avatar
1989
Albert
2014
Thidias
1975
Fergus
2008
Geoff Craven
1984
Darwan
2014
2026
Rev. Templeton
1997
Emperor Kisra
Frank Ford
1982
Henderson
2018
Dr. Squires
2008
Therapist
2012
Dr. John Elliotson
1976
Simon Wiesenthal
1989
Royale
1972
Perci Trachtenberg
2010
Self
2012
Naseem
1973
William Snow
1985
1973
Julian Messenger
1997
Moses
1996
Silas Marner
1985
Self
2013
Self
2006
Lawrence Konrad
2013
Magistrate Porfiry
1998
Lenin
1990
Duval
1984
Ivanov
1979
Hermocrates
2001
Self
2004
Renzo Locatelli
1999
Cunda
1990
Narrator
2012
The Great Zamboni
2002
Sweeney Todd
1998
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1975
Self
1994
1989
Self
2018
Martin Boyne
1990
Lenin
1988
Self
2012
Potiphar
1995
Selim
1985
Narrator
2001
Self
1994
Basil Pascali
1988
Self
2006
Self
2018
Self (archive footage)
2015
Self
2012
Narrator
1998
Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)
1983
Self
1983
Narrator
2003
Robert
1983
Self
2004
Self
2022
Narrator
2004
Voice
2011
Al-Jazari / Librarian
2010
Self
2003
Narrator
1999
Self
1985
Self
2001
2003
Self
2010
2007
Father Capulet (voice)
1990
Narrator
2010
Self
2018
2010
2006
Narrator
2003
Self
2006
Self
2006
Narrator
2005
Narrator (voice)
1991
Self - Narrator
2001
King Herod
1991
The Caller (voice)
2016
Narrator (voice)
2019
Narator
1999
Narrator (voice)
1991