Ben Kingsley

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-12-31 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

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 ...

Acting

2006

2005

Oliver Twist

as Fagin

1993

Schindler's List

as Itzhak Stern

2001

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

as Specialist (voice)

1982

Gandhi

as Mahatma Gandhi

1994

Death and the Maiden

as Dr. Roberto Miranda

1992

Sneakers

as Cosmo

1985

2005

A Sound of Thunder

as Charles Hatton

1995

Joseph

as Potifar

1991

Bugsy

as Meyer Lansky

1990

2000

Rules of Engagement

as Ambassador Mourain

2003

1999

The Confession

as Harry Fertig

1993

Dave

as Vice-President Nance

2010

Shutter Island

as Dr. Cawley

2007

The Ten Commandments

as Narrator (voice)

1989

Slipstream

as Avatar

2008

TransSiberian

as Grinko

2000

Sexy Beast

as Don Logan

1999

Alice in Wonderland

as Major Caterpillar

2004

Suspect Zero

as Benjamin O'Ryan

2007

You Kill Me

as Frank Falenczyk

2008

Elegy

as David Kepesh

1972

2008

The Love Guru

as Guru Tugginmypuddha

1987

Maurice

as Lasker-Jones

1988

Without a Clue

as Dr. John Watson

2008

War, Inc.

as Walken / The Viceroy

1995

Species

as Xavier Fitch

1985

Harem

as Selim

2007

The Last Legion

as Ambrosinus

2010

Teen Patti

as Perci Trachtenberg

-

Desert Warrior

as Emperor Kisra

2001

The Triumph of Love

as Hermocrates

2002

Tuck Everlasting

as Man in the Yellow Suit

2008

The Wackness

as Dr. Squires

1993

Searching for Bobby Fischer

as Bruce Pandolfini

2023

Jules

as Milton Robinson

2004

Thunderbirds

as The Hood

1990

The Children

as Martin Boyne

1996

2011

Hugo

as Georges Méliès

2023

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

as Imdad Khan / Croupier

2001

Islam: Empire of Faith

as Self - Narrator

1997

2013

Iron Man 3

as Trevor Slattery

2013

Ender's Game

as Mazer Rackham

2024

The Killer's Game

as Zvi Rabinowitz

1983

Schindler

as Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)

2012

The Dictator

as Tamir

1999

2006

Mrs. Harris

as Herman Tarnower

1985

Silas Marner

as Silas Marner

1985

Turtle Diary

as William Snow

1999

Parting Shots

as Renzo Locatelli

2013

A Common Man

as The Man

1992

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

as Freddie (voice)

2002

Spooky House

as The Great Zamboni

2012

A Therapy

as Therapist

1988

Testimony

as Dmitri Shostakovich

1988

Pascali's Island

as Basil Pascali

1998

1983

Betrayal

as Robert

1984

Camille

as Duval

2013

The Physician

as Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

2005

BloodRayne

as Kagan

2014

The Boxtrolls

as Snatcher (voice)

2013

2023

Poison

as Dr. Ganderbai

1994

Liberation

as Narrator

2013

2015

Self/less

as Damian

2014

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin

2014

Robot Overlords

as Robin Smythe

2014

War Story

as Albert

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1975

2003

Unlikely Heroes

as Narrator

2014

Walking with the Enemy

as Regent Miklos Horthy

2025

William Tell

as King Albrecht

1997

Photographing Fairies

as Rev. Templeton

2009

Journey to Mecca

as Narrator

2016

The Jungle Book

as Bagheera (voice)

2014

1990

2014

Stonehearst Asylum

as Silas Lamb

2015

The Walk

as Papa Rudy

2015

Life

as Jack Warner

1997

Weapons of Mass Distraction

as Julian Messenger

2005

2016

Collide

as Geran

1998

Crime and Punishment

as Magistrate Porfiry

2015

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2024

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)

2015

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2025

2015

Knight of Cups

as Storyteller (voice)

2025

The King of Kings

as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)

1990

2017

An Ordinary Man

as The General

2016

Of Dogs and Men

as The Caller (voice)

2017

War Machine

as President Karzai

2017

1973

Hard Labour

as Naseem

2019

Night Hunter

as Cooper

-

Mary

as King Herod

2017

Security

as Charlie

2019

2017

Spielberg

as Self

2018

Operation Finale

as Adolf Eichmann

2019

2022

Dalíland

as Dalí

1990

Romeo.Juliet

as Father Capulet (voice)

2010

2021

Locked Down

as Malcolm

2019

The Medicine Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

1991

Production

2022

Dalíland

as Executive Producer

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