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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 31, 1943
Place of Birth
Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Sir Ben Kingsley
- Krishna Pandit Bhanji
- Krishna Bhanji
Ben Kingsley
3.7 Popularity
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
0.0
Robert Dinwiddie
Young Washington
2026
0.0
Deep Water
2026
0.0
Trevor Slattery
Wonder Man
2026
10.0
Emperor Kisra
Desert Warrior
2025
6.6
Ibrahim
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
8.5
High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
The King of Kings
2025
6.2
King Albrecht
William Tell
2025
6.4
Zvi Rabinowitz
The Killer's Game
2024
7.4
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
6.9
Dr. Ganderbai
Poison
2023
Credits
Young Washington
as Robert Dinwiddie
2026
0.0
Deep Water
2026
0.0
Wonder Man
as Trevor Slattery
2026
0.0
Desert Warrior
as Emperor Kisra
2025
10.0
The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim
2025
6.6
The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
2025
8.5
William Tell
as King Albrecht
2025
6.2
The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz
2024
6.4
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
2024
7.4
Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai
2023
6.9
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
2023
7.2
Jules
as Milton Robinson
2023
7.2
Dalíland
as Dalí
2022
6.0
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self
2022
10.0
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery
2021
7.5
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
2021
7.2
Locked Down
as Malcolm
2021
5.2
Marvel Studios Legends
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
2021
7.4
The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
2019
7.3
Night Hunter
as Cooper
2019
6.6
The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin
2019
6.8
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
2019
7.3
Spider in the Web
as Adereth
2019
4.9
Watership Down
as General Woundwort (voice)
2018
6.9
🎬
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)
2018
0.0
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self
2018
7.2
🎬
Inside the Operation
as Self
2018
0.0
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self
2018
5.0
Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson
2018
5.3
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as Self
2018
0.0
Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann
2018
6.7
All or Nothing: Manchester City
as Narrator (voice)
2018
7.2
Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha
2018
6.2
An Ordinary Man
as The General
2017
6.2
Spielberg
as Self
2017
7.6
War Machine
as President Karzai
2017
5.6
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff
2017
6.1
Security
as Charlie
2017
6.3
Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)
2016
0.0
Collide
as Geran
2016
5.6
The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)
2016
6.9
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2015
0.0
The Walk
as Papa Rudy
2015
7.0
Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)
2015
5.7
Life
as Jack Warner
2015
6.0
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
7.5
Tut
as Ay
2015
7.2
Self/less
as Damian
2015
6.4
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
2015
6.4
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)
2015
5.4
Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe
2015
4.8
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre
2014
6.2
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun
2014
5.9
Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb
2014
6.9
The Boxtrolls
as Snatcher (voice)
2014
6.7
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
2014
4.8
Learning to Drive
as Darwan
2014
6.2
Garfunkel and Oates
as Ben Kingsley
2014
6.9
Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy
2014
6.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
2014
6.7
War Story
as Albert
2014
4.1
The Physician
as Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
2013
7.3
Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham
2013
6.6
Muse of Fire
as Self
2013
6.5
A Common Man
as The Man
2013
5.7
A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad
2013
5.7
Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery
2013
6.9
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
2012
0.0
A Therapy
as Therapist
2012
5.3
The Dictator
as Tamir
2012
6.2
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self
2012
0.0
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
2012
6.0
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as Self
2012
6.0
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
as Self
2012
6.0
Hugo
as Georges Méliès
2011
7.2
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
2011
4.7
🎬
Aral, the Lost Sea
2010
2.7
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator
2010
6.4
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Nizam
2010
6.3
Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg
2010
3.8
Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley
2010
8.2
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian
2010
5.5
Journey to Mecca
as Narrator
2009
6.4
Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus
2008
6.3
Elegy
as David Kepesh
2008
6.3
The Wackness
as Dr. Squires
2008
6.4
The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
2008
4.1
War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy
2008
5.5
TransSiberian
as Grinko
2008
6.4
The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)
2007
5.6
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
as Self
2007
7.7
The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus
2007
5.6
You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk
2007
6.1
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as Self
2006
7.5
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self
2006
0.0
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
2006
0.0
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
2006
8.5
Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower
2006
5.7
Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi
2006
7.5
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006
0.0
🎬
Peace Is Every Step
as Narrator
2005
0.0
BloodRayne
as Kagan
2005
4.2
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
2005
6.7
A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton
2005
4.8
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2005
10.0
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan
2004
5.5
🎬
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
as Self
2004
0.0
Thunderbirds
as The Hood
2004
5.0
Religion of the World
as Narrator
2004
0.0
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
2004
6.5
House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani
2003
7.1
Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator
2003
7.3
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
0.0
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
2003
5.0
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator
2003
0.0
Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit
2002
6.7
Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni
2002
5.9
The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates
2001
6.0
The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
2001
0.0
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)
2001
7.1
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
as Otto Frank
2001
7.4
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Narrator
2001
0.0
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator
2001
8.4
Sexy Beast
as Don Logan
2001
7.0
Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain
2000
6.3
What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon
2000
5.4
🎬
A Force More Powerful
as Narator
1999
9.0
CNN Millennium
as Narrator
1999
0.0
Rove
as Self
1999
8.0
Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli
1999
5.4
The Confession
as Harry Fertig
1999
5.7
Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar
1999
6.2
The Sopranos
as Ben Kingsley
1999
8.6
Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry
1998
6.5
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd
1998
5.5
Religions of the World
as Narrator
1998
0.0
The Assignment
as Amos
1997
6.3
Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton
1997
5.5
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger
1997
4.9
Twelfth Night
as Feste
1996
6.9
Moïse
as Moses
1996
0.0
Moses
as Moses
1996
6.5
Moses
as Moses
1995
8.0
Species
as Xavier Fitch
1995
6.0
Joseph
as Potiphar
1995
6.5
Joseph
as Potifar
1995
8.2
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
1994
7.1
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self
1994
0.0
Liberation
as Narrator
1994
7.8
Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern
1993
8.6
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini
1993
7.1
Dave
as Vice-President Nance
1993
6.6
Sneakers
as Cosmo
1992
6.9
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)
1992
5.2
Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky
1991
6.3
Necessary Love
1991
9.2
🎬
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
🎬
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
The War That Never Ends
as Pericles
1991
1.0
The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda
1990
9.0
The Children
as Martin Boyne
1990
3.8
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governor
1990
4.0
Lenin: The Train
as Lenin
1990
6.2
Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)
1990
5.0
The Making of Slipstream
1989
0.0
Slipstream
as Avatar
1989
4.3
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal
1989
5.7
Lenin... The Train
as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
1988
6.0
Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich
1988
4.5
Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali
1988
6.2
Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson
1988
6.7
The Secret of the Sahara
as Sholomon
1988
6.1
🎬
Seitenblicke
as Self
1987
0.0
Maurice
as Lasker-Jones
1987
7.6
Silas Marner
as Silas Marner
1985
5.6
Turtle Diary
as William Snow
1985
6.2
Harem
as Selim
1985
4.3
To Be Hamlet
as Self
1985
0.0
Camille
as Duval
1984
5.3
Oxbridge Blues
as Geoff Craven
1984
5.0
Playing Shakespeare
1984
10.0
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
Schindler
as Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)
1983
8.0
Betrayal
as Robert
1983
5.9
🎬
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
1983
0.0
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford
1982
8.0
Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi
1982
7.6
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
4.1
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
as Ivanov
1979
0.0
Dickens of London
as Dr. John Elliotson
1976
6.5
The Love School
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1975
0.0
Antony and Cleopatra
as Thidias
1975
7.0
Playhouse
as Ivanov
1974
7.0
Wessex Tales
1973
6.0
Hard Labour
as Naseem
1973
6.5
Fear Is the Key
as Royale
1972
5.8
Pebble Mill at One
1972
0.0
The Adventurer
as Pierre
1972
5.5
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Duval
1951
8.6
Bambi
as Self
1948
9.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
1944
7.2
The Way of the Wind
N/A
0.0
🎬
Fortitude
N/A
0.0
🎬
Mary
as King Herod
N/A
0.0