Ben Kingsley
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 31, 1943 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 220
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
Shutter Island
2010Movie
Dr. Cawley
Iron Man 3
2013Movie
Trevor Slattery
Schindler's List
1993Movie
Itzhak Stern
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021Movie
Trevor Slattery
The Jungle Book
2016Movie
Bagheera (voice)
Hugo
2011Movie
Georges Méliès
Filmography
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
2027Movie
(voice)
Young Washington
2026Movie
Robert Dinwiddie
The Old Stories: Moses
2026TV
Moses
Deep Water
2026Movie
Rich
Desert Warrior
2026Movie
Emperor Kisra II
Wonder Man
2026TV
Trevor Slattery
The Thursday Murder Club
2025Movie
Ibrahim
The King of Kings
2025Movie
High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
William Tell
2025Movie
King Albrecht
The Killer's Game
2024Movie
Zvi Rabinowitz
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024Movie
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
Poison
2023Movie
Dr. Ganderbai
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023Movie
Imdad Khan / Croupier
Jules
2023Movie
Milton Robinson
Dalíland
2022Movie
Dalí
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022Movie
Self
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021Movie
Trevor Slattery
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021TV
Self
Locked Down
2021Movie
Malcolm
Marvel Studios Legends
2021TV
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
The Medicine Buddha
2019Movie
Narrator (voice)
Night Hunter
2019Movie
Cooper
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019Movie
Ethan Levin
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019TV
Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
Spider in the Web
2019Movie
Adereth
Watership Down
2018TV
General Woundwort (voice)
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018Movie
Self (archive footage)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018Movie
Self
Inside the Operation
2018Movie
Self
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018Movie
Self
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018Movie
Henderson
Operation Finale
2018Movie
Adolf Eichmann
All or Nothing: Manchester City
2018TV
Narrator (voice)
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018Movie
Pasha
An Ordinary Man
2017Movie
The General
Spielberg
2017Movie
Self
War Machine
2017Movie
President Karzai
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017Movie
Woodruff
Security
2017Movie
Charlie
Of Dogs and Men
2016Movie
The Caller (voice)
Collide
2016Movie
Geran
The Jungle Book
2016Movie
Bagheera (voice)
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Walk
2015Movie
Papa Rudy
Knight of Cups
2015Movie
Storyteller (voice)
Life
2015Movie
Jack Warner
Unity
2015Movie
Narrator (voice)
Tut
2015TV
Ay
Self/less
2015Movie
Damian
Lip Sync Battle
2015TV
Self
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015Movie
Drago (Voice)
Robot Overlords
2015Movie
Robin Smythe
Der Medicus
2014TV
Ibn Sina
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014Movie
Merenkahre
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014Movie
Nun
Stonehearst Asylum
2014Movie
Silas Lamb
The Boxtrolls
2014Movie
Snatcher (voice)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014Movie
Self
Learning to Drive
2014Movie
Darwan
Garfunkel and Oates
2014TV
Ben Kingsley
Walking with the Enemy
2014Movie
Regent Miklos Horthy
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self - Guest
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014Movie
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
War Story
2014Movie
Albert
The Physician
2013Movie
Ibn Sina
Ender's Game
2013Movie
Mazer Rackham
Muse of Fire
2013Movie
Self
A Common Man
2013Movie
The Man
A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013Movie
Lawrence Konrad
Iron Man 3
2013Movie
Trevor Slattery
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
2012Movie
Narrator
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012Movie
Self
The Dictator
2012Movie
Tamir
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012Movie
Self
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012Movie
Self
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012Movie
Self
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012Movie
Self
Hugo
2011Movie
Georges Méliès
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011Movie
Voice
Aral, the Lost Sea
2010Movie
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
2010Movie
Narrator
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010Movie
Nizam
Teen Patti
2010Movie
Perci Trachtenberg
Shutter Island
2010Movie
Dr. Cawley
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
2010Movie
Al-Jazari / Librarian
Journey to Mecca
2009Movie
Narrator
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008Movie
Fergus
Elegy
2008Movie
David Kepesh
The Wackness
2008Movie
Dr. Squires
The Love Guru
2008Movie
Guru Tugginmypuddha
War, Inc.
2008Movie
Walken / The Viceroy
TransSiberian
2008Movie
Grinko
The Ten Commandments
2007Movie
Narrator (voice)
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
2007Movie
Self
The Last Legion
2007Movie
Ambrosinus
You Kill Me
2007Movie
Frank Falenczyk
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
2006Movie
Self
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
2006Movie
Self
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
2006Movie
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006Movie
Self
Lucky Number Slevin
2006Movie
The Rabbi
BloodRayne
2006Movie
Kagan
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006Movie
Peace Is Every Step
2005Movie
Narrator
Oliver Twist
2005Movie
Fagin
Mrs. Harris
2005Movie
Herman Tarnower
A Sound of Thunder
2005Movie
Charles Hatton
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005TV
Self - Guest
Suspect Zero
2004Movie
Benjamin O'Ryan
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
2004Movie
Self
Thunderbirds
2004Movie
The Hood
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004Movie
Self
Religion of the World
2004TV
Narrator
House of Sand and Fog
2003Movie
Behrani
Unlikely Heroes
2003Movie
Narrator
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003Movie
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003Movie
Self
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
2003Movie
Narrator
Tuck Everlasting
2002Movie
Man in the Yellow Suit
Spooky House
2002Movie
The Great Zamboni
The Triumph of Love
2001Movie
Hermocrates
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
2001Movie
Self - Interviewee
The Making of Sexy Beast
2001Movie
Self
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001Movie
Specialist (voice)
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001TV
Otto Frank
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001Movie
Self - Narrator
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001TV
Narrator
Sexy Beast
2001Movie
Don Logan
Rules of Engagement
2000Movie
Ambassador Mourain
What Planet Are You From?
2000Movie
Graydon
A Force More Powerful
1999Movie
Narator
CNN Millennium
1999TV
Narrator
Rove
1999TV
Self
Parting Shots
1999Movie
Renzo Locatelli
The Confession
1999Movie
Harry Fertig
Alice in Wonderland
1999Movie
Major Caterpillar
The Sopranos
1999TV
Ben Kingsley
Crime and Punishment
1998Movie
Magistrate Porfiry
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998Movie
Sweeney Todd
Religions of the World
1998TV
Narrator
The Assignment
1997Movie
Amos
Photographing Fairies
1997Movie
Rev. Templeton
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997Movie
Julian Messenger
HARDtalk
1997TV
Twelfth Night
1996Movie
Feste
Moses
1996TV
Moses
TFI Friday
1996TV
Species
1995Movie
Xavier Fitch
Joseph
1995TV
Potiphar
Joseph
1995Movie
Potiphar
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Death and the Maiden
1994Movie
Dr. Roberto Miranda
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994Movie
Self
Liberation
1994Movie
Narrator (voice)
Schindler's List
1993Movie
Itzhak Stern
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993Movie
Bruce Pandolfini
Dave
1993Movie
Vice-President Nance
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
1993Movie
Self / The King (voice)
Sneakers
1992Movie
Cosmo
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992Movie
Freddie (voice)
Bugsy
1991Movie
Meyer Lansky
Necessary Love
1991Movie
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
The War That Never Ends
1991Movie
Pericles
The Fifth Monkey
1990Movie
Cunda
The Children
1990Movie
Martin Boyne
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990Movie
Governor
Romeo.Juliet
1990Movie
Father Capulet (voice)
The Making of Slipstream
1989Movie
Slipstream
1989Movie
Avatar
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989Movie
Simon Wiesenthal
Lenin: The Train
1988Movie
Lenin
Lenin... The Train
1988TV
Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
Testimony
1988Movie
Dmitri Shostakovich
Pascali's Island
1988Movie
Basil Pascali
Without a Clue
1988Movie
Dr. John Watson
The Secret of the Sahara
1988TV
Sholomon
Dispatches
1987TV
Seitenblicke
1987TV
Self
Maurice
1987Movie
Lasker-Jones
Silas Marner
1985Movie
Silas Marner
Turtle Diary
1985Movie
William Snow
Harem
1985Movie
Selim
To Be Hamlet
1985Movie
Self
Camille
1984Movie
Duval
Oxbridge Blues
1984TV
Geoff Craven
Playing Shakespeare
1984TV
Goldene Kamera
1984TV
Self
Betrayal
1983Movie
Robert
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983Movie
Self
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982Movie
Frank Ford
Gandhi
1982Movie
Mahatma Gandhi
Entertainment Tonight
1981TV
Self
Wetten, dass..?
1981TV
Self
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979Movie
Ivanov
Thank You, Comrades
1978Movie
Roberto Cibrario
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978TV
Frank Ford
The Velvet Glove
1977TV
Chakravarti
Dickens of London
1976TV
Dr. John Elliotson
The Love School
1975TV
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Antony and Cleopatra
1975Movie
Thidias
Playhouse
1974TV
Ivanov
Wessex Tales
1973TV
Lord Uplandtowers
Hard Labour
1973Movie
Naseem
Fear Is the Key
1972Movie
Royale
Crown Court
1972TV
Jeremy Leigh
Pebble Mill at One
1972TV
The Adventurer
1972TV
Pierre
Film '72
1971TV
Self
World in Action
1963TV
Re-enactment
The Oscars
1953TV
Self - Presenter
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Duval
Bambi
1948TV
Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee, Self - Audience Member
The Way of the Wind
Movie
Fortitude
Movie
Mary
Movie
King Herod
Faith
Movie
Sheikh Usman