Ben Kingsley

Actor

Born December 31, 1943 in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

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).

Filmography

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Sonic the Hedgehog 4

(voice)

The Way of the Wind

Young Washington

Robert Dinwiddie

The Old Stories: Moses

Moses

Deep Water

Rich

Desert Warrior

Emperor Kisra II

Wonder Man

Trevor Slattery

The Thursday Murder Club

Ibrahim

The King of Kings

High Priest Caiaphas (voice)

William Tell

King Albrecht

The Killer's Game

Zvi Rabinowitz

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

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

Poison

Dr. Ganderbai

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Imdad Khan / Croupier

Jules

Milton Robinson

Dalíland

Dalí

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

Self

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Trevor Slattery

Marvel Studios Assembled

Self

Locked Down

Malcolm

Marvel Studios Legends

Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)

The Medicine Buddha

Narrator (voice)

Night Hunter

Cooper

The Red Sea Diving Resort

Ethan Levin

Perpetual Grace LTD

Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown

Spider in the Web

Adereth

Watership Down

General Woundwort (voice)

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Self

Who Killed British Cinema?

Self

Intrigo: Death of an Author

Henderson

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later

Self

Operation Finale

Adolf Eichmann

All or Nothing: Manchester City

Narrator (voice)

Backstabbing for Beginners

Pasha

An Ordinary Man

The General

Spielberg

Self

War Machine

President Karzai

The Ottoman Lieutenant

Woodruff

Security

Charlie

Of Dogs and Men

The Caller (voice)

Collide

Geran

The Jungle Book

Bagheera (voice)

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

Self (archive footage)

The Walk

Papa Rudy

Knight of Cups

Storyteller (voice)

Life

Jack Warner

Unity

Narrator (voice)

Tut

Self/less

Damian

Lip Sync Battle

Self

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

Drago (Voice)

Robot Overlords

Robin Smythe

Der Medicus

Ibn Sina

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Merenkahre

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Nun

Stonehearst Asylum

Silas Lamb

The Boxtrolls

Snatcher (voice)

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

Self

Learning to Drive

Darwan

Garfunkel and Oates

Ben Kingsley

Walking with the Enemy

Regent Miklos Horthy

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self - Guest

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin

War Story

Albert

The Physician

Ibn Sina

Ender's Game

Mazer Rackham

Muse of Fire

Self

A Common Man

The Man

A Birder's Guide to Everything

Lawrence Konrad

Iron Man 3

Trevor Slattery

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl

Narrator

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

Self

The Dictator

Tamir

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Self

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

Self

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

Self

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

Self

Hugo

Georges Méliès

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Voice

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Narrator

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Nizam

Teen Patti

Perci Trachtenberg

Shutter Island

Dr. Cawley

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

Al-Jazari / Librarian

Journey to Mecca

Narrator

Fifty Dead Men Walking

Fergus

Elegy

David Kepesh

The Wackness

Dr. Squires

The Love Guru

Guru Tugginmypuddha

War, Inc.

Walken / The Viceroy

TransSiberian

Grinko

The Ten Commandments

Narrator (voice)

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

Self

The Last Legion

Ambrosinus

You Kill Me

Frank Falenczyk

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia

Self

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel

Self

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood

Self

50 Films to See Before You Die

Self

Mrs. Harris

Herman Tarnower

Lucky Number Slevin

The Rabbi

The Life and Faith of CS Lewis

BloodRayne

Kagan

Oliver Twist

Fagin

A Sound of Thunder

Charles Hatton

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Self - Guest

Suspect Zero

Benjamin O'Ryan

Thunderbirds

The Hood

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Self

Religion of the World

Narrator

House of Sand and Fog

Behrani

Unlikely Heroes

Narrator

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Self

Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land

Narrator

Tuck Everlasting

Man in the Yellow Suit

Spooky House

The Great Zamboni

The Triumph of Love

Hermocrates

The Making of Sexy Beast

Self

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Specialist (voice)

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Otto Frank

Islam: Empire of Faith

Self - Narrator

Islam: Empire of Faith

Narrator

Sexy Beast

Don Logan

Rules of Engagement

Ambassador Mourain

What Planet Are You From?

Graydon

CNN Millennium

Narrator

Rove

Self

Parting Shots

Renzo Locatelli

The Confession

Harry Fertig

Alice in Wonderland

Major Caterpillar

The Sopranos

Ben Kingsley

Crime and Punishment

Magistrate Porfiry

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Religions of the World

Narrator

The Assignment

Amos

Photographing Fairies

Rev. Templeton

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Julian Messenger

HARDtalk

Twelfth Night

Feste

Moses

Species

Xavier Fitch

Joseph

Potiphar

Joseph

Potiphar

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

Death and the Maiden

Dr. Roberto Miranda

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

Self

Liberation

Narrator

Schindler's List

Itzhak Stern

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Bruce Pandolfini

Dave

Vice-President Nance

The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream

Sneakers

Cosmo

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

Freddie (voice)

Bugsy

Meyer Lansky

Necessary Love

Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver

Narrator (voice)

Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin

Narrator (voice)

The War That Never Ends

Pericles

The Fifth Monkey

Cunda

The Children

Martin Boyne

Cellini: A Violent Life

Governor

Romeo.Juliet

Father Capulet (voice)

The Making of Slipstream

Slipstream

Avatar

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Simon Wiesenthal

Lenin: The Train

Lenin

Lenin... The Train

Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

Testimony

Dmitri Shostakovich

Pascali's Island

Basil Pascali

Without a Clue

Dr. John Watson

The Secret of the Sahara

Sholomon

Dispatches

Maurice

Lasker-Jones

Silas Marner

Turtle Diary

William Snow

Harem

Selim

To Be Hamlet

Self

Camille

Duval

Oxbridge Blues

Geoff Craven

Playing Shakespeare

Betrayal

Robert

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Frank Ford

Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Entertainment Tonight

Self

Wetten, dass..?

Self

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Ivanov

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Frank Ford

Dickens of London

Dr. John Elliotson

The Love School

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Antony and Cleopatra

Thidias

Playhouse

Ivanov

Wessex Tales

Lord Uplandtowers

Hard Labour

Naseem

Fear Is the Key

Royale

Pebble Mill at One

The Adventurer

Pierre

World in Action

Re-enactment

The Oscars

Self - Presenter

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Duval

Bambi

Self

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee