Ben Kingsley
Acting
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
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movieYoung Washington
2026
Robert Dinwiddie
movieDesert Warrior
2026
Emperor Kisra II
tvWonder Man
2026
Trevor Slattery
movieThe King of Kings
2025
High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
movieWilliam Tell
2025
King Albrecht
movieThe Killer's Game
2024
Zvi Rabinowitz
movieThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
moviePoison
2023
Dr. Ganderbai
movieThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
Imdad Khan / Croupier
movieJules
2023
Milton Robinson
movieShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
Trevor Slattery
movieLocked Down
2021
Malcolm
tvMarvel Studios Legends
2021
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
movieThe Medicine Buddha
2019
Narrator (voice)
movieNight Hunter
2019
Cooper
movieThe Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
Ethan Levin
tvPerpetual Grace LTD
2019
Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
movieSpider in the Web
2019
Adereth
tvWatership Down
2018
General Woundwort (voice)
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
Self (archive footage)
movieIntrigo: Death of an Author
2018
Henderson
movieOperation Finale
2018
Adolf Eichmann
tvAll or Nothing: Manchester City
2018
Narrator (voice)
movieAn Ordinary Man
2017
The General
movieWar Machine
2017
President Karzai
movieThe Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
Woodruff
movieSecurity
2017
Charlie
movieOf Dogs and Men
2016
The Caller (voice)
movieCollide
2016
Geran
movieThe Jungle Book
2016
Bagheera (voice)
movieKnights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Walk
2015
Papa Rudy
movieKnight of Cups
2015
Storyteller (voice)
movieLife
2015
Jack Warner
movieUnity
2015
Narrator (voice)
movieSelf/less
2015
Damian
movieDragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015
Drago (Voice)
movieRobot Overlords
2015
Robin Smythe
tvDer Medicus
2014
Ibn Sina
movieStonehearst Asylum
2014
Silas Lamb
movieThe Boxtrolls
2014
Snatcher (voice)
tvGarfunkel and Oates
2014
Ben Kingsley
movieWalking with the Enemy
2014
Regent Miklos Horthy
tvLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Self - Guest
movieMarvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
movieWar Story
2014
Albert
movieThe Physician
2013
Ibn Sina
movieEnder's Game
2013
Mazer Rackham
movieA Common Man
2013
The Man
movieA Birder's Guide to Everything
2013
Lawrence Konrad
movieIron Man 3
2013
Trevor Slattery
movieHugo
2011
Georges Méliès
movieTeen Patti
2010
Perci Trachtenberg
movieShutter Island
2010
Dr. Cawley
movie1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
2010
Al-Jazari / Librarian
movieJourney to Mecca
2009
Narrator
movieElegy
2008
David Kepesh
movieThe Wackness
2008
Dr. Squires
movieThe Love Guru
2008
Guru Tugginmypuddha
movieWar, Inc.
2008
Walken / The Viceroy
movieTransSiberian
2008
Grinko
movieThe Ten Commandments
2007
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Last Legion
2007
Ambrosinus
movieYou Kill Me
2007
Frank Falenczyk
movieMrs. Harris
2006
Herman Tarnower
movieLucky Number Slevin
2006
The Rabbi
movieBloodRayne
2005
Kagan
movieA Sound of Thunder
2005
Charles Hatton
movieNos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Self (archive footage)
tvThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Self - Guest
movieSuspect Zero
2004
Benjamin O'Ryan
movieThunderbirds
2004
The Hood
tvReligion of the World
2004
Narrator
movieUnlikely Heroes
2003
Narrator
movieTuck Everlasting
2002
Man in the Yellow Suit
movieSpooky House
2002
The Great Zamboni
movieThe Triumph of Love
2001
Hermocrates
movieA.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
Specialist (voice)
tvAnne Frank: The Whole Story
2001
Otto Frank
movieIslam: Empire of Faith
2001
Self - Narrator
tvIslam: Empire of Faith
2001
Narrator
movieSexy Beast
2001
Don Logan
movieRules of Engagement
2000
Ambassador Mourain
tvCNN Millennium
1999
Narrator
tvRove
1999
Self
movieParting Shots
1999
Renzo Locatelli
movieThe Confession
1999
Harry Fertig
movieAlice in Wonderland
1999
Major Caterpillar
tvThe Sopranos
1999
Ben Kingsley
movieCrime and Punishment
1998
Magistrate Porfiry
movieThe Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998
Sweeney Todd
tvReligions of the World
1998
Narrator
moviePhotographing Fairies
1997
Rev. Templeton
movieWeapons of Mass Distraction
1997
Julian Messenger
tvMoses
1996
Moses
movieSpecies
1995
Xavier Fitch
tvJoseph
1995
Potiphar
movieJoseph
1995
Potiphar
movieDeath and the Maiden
1994
Dr. Roberto Miranda
movieLiberation
1994
Narrator
movieSchindler's List
1993
Itzhak Stern
movieSearching for Bobby Fischer
1993
Bruce Pandolfini
movieDave
1993
Vice-President Nance
movieSneakers
1992
Cosmo
movieFreddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
Freddie (voice)
movieBugsy
1991
Meyer Lansky
movieRabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
1991
Narrator (voice)
movieRabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
1991
Narrator (voice)
movieThe War That Never Ends
1991
Pericles
movieThe Children
1990
Martin Boyne
movieCellini: A Violent Life
1990
Governor
movieRomeo.Juliet
1990
Father Capulet (voice)
movieSlipstream
1989
Avatar
movieMurderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Simon Wiesenthal
tvLenin... The Train
1988
Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
movieTestimony
1988
Dmitri Shostakovich
moviePascali's Island
1988
Basil Pascali
movieWithout a Clue
1988
Dr. John Watson
tvThe Secret of the Sahara
1988
Sholomon
movieMaurice
1987
Lasker-Jones
movieSilas Marner
1985
Silas Marner
movieTurtle Diary
1985
William Snow
movieHarem
1985
Selim
movieCamille
1984
Duval
tvOxbridge Blues
1984
Geoff Craven
movieBetrayal
1983
Robert
movieThe Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Frank Ford
movieGandhi
1982
Mahatma Gandhi
Thank You, Comrades
1978
Roberto Cibrario
tvThe BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Frank Ford
The Velvet Glove
1977
Chakravarti
tvDickens of London
1976
Dr. John Elliotson
tvThe Love School
1975
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
tvPlayhouse
1974
Ivanov
tvWessex Tales
1973
Lord Uplandtowers
movieHard Labour
1973
Naseem
movieFear Is the Key
1972
Royale
tvThe Adventurer
1972
Pierre
tvWorld in Action
1963
Re-enactment
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self - Presenter
tvBambi
1948
Self
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member
Mary
King Herod
Creator1
tvReligion of the World
2004
Creator
Production1
movieDalíland
2022
Executive Producer