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