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Ben Kingsley

Actor, ProducerBorn December 31, 1943 (80 years)
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).

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Stonehearst Asylum
  • Transsiberian
  • The Physician
  • BloodRayne
  • Knight of Cups
  • Death and the Maiden
  • Elegy
  • Room 237
  • A Sound of Thunder
  • Collide
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Life
  • Robot Overlords
  • Coronation Street
  • Slipstream
  • A Birder's Guide to Everything
  • The Tale of Sweeney Todd
  • Spooky House
  • It Is No Dream
  • The Medicine Buddha
Known For
  • Schindler's List
  • Gandhi
  • Shutter Island
  • Hugo
  • Iron Man 3
  • The Dictator
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  • Lucky Number Slevin
  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  • The Jungle Book
  • The Walk
  • The Boxtrolls
  • Exodus: Gods and Kings
  • House of Sand and Fog
  • Self/less
  • Ender's Game
  • Sexy Beast
  • Species
  • Operation Finale
  • The Physician
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • You Kill Me
  • BloodRayne
  • The Last Legion

Filmography

2025
The King of Kings · as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
2024
2024
The Killer's Game · as Zvi Rabinowitz
2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More · as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai
2023
Poison · as Dr. Ganderbai
2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar · as Imdad Khan / Croupier
2023
Jules · as Milton Robinson
2022
Daliland · as Dalí
2021
2021
Locked Down · as Malcolm
2021
Marvel Studios: Legends (TV Series) · as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive Footage)
2019
2019
The Red Sea Diving Resort · as Ethan Levin
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD (TV Series) · as Pastor Byron 'pa' Brown
2019
Spider in the Web · as Adereth
2018
Watership Down (2018) (TV Series) · as General Woundwort (voice)
2018
2018
Night Hunter · as Cooper
2018
Operation Finale · as Adolf Eichmann
2018
All or Nothing: Manchester City (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice)
2018
2017
An Ordinary Man · as The General
2017
War Machine · as President Karzai
2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant · as Woodruff
2017
Security · as Charlie
2016
Collide · as Geran
2016
The Jungle Book · as Bagheera (voice)
2015
The Walk · as Papa Rudy
2015
Knight of Cups · as Storyteller (voice)
2015
Life · as Jack Warner
2015
Unity · as Narrator (voice)
2015
Tut (TV Series) · as Ay
2015
Self/less · as Damian
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
Robot Overlords · as Robin Smythe
2014
The Boxtrolls · as Archibald Snatcher (voice)
2014
Learning to Drive · as Darwan
2014
War Story · as Albert
2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King · as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
2014
2013
Walking with the Enemy · as Regent Miklos Horthy
2013
The Physician · as Ibn Sina (avicenna)
2013
A Common Man · as The Man
2013
Ender's Game · as Mazer Rackham
2013
Iron Man 3 · as Trevor Slattery
2013
2012
Room 237 · as Itzhak Stern
2012
2012
A Therapy · as Therapist
2012
The Dictator · as Tamir
2012
Noah · as Narrator
2011
Hugo · as Georges Méliès
2010
2010
2010
2010
Teen Patti · as Perci Trachtenberg
2010
Shutter Island · as Dr. Cawley
2010
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets · as Al-Jazari / Librarian
2009
Journey to Mecca · as Narrator
2008
2008
2008
The Wackness · as Dr. Squires
2008
The Love Guru · as Guru Tugginmypuddha
2008
War, Inc. · as Walken / The Viceroy
2008
Elegy · as David Kepesh
2007
The Ten Commandments · as Narrator (voice)
2007
You Kill Me · as Frank Falenczyk
2007
2007
The Last Legion · as Ambrosinus
2006
Lucky Number Slevin · as The Rabbi
2005
Mrs. Harris · as Herman Tarnower
2005
2005
Oliver Twist · as Fagin
2005
A Sound of Thunder · as Charles Hatton
2004
Suspect Zero · as Benjamin O'ryan
2004
Thunderbirds · as The Hood
2003
House of Sand and Fog · as Behrani
2003
Unlikely Heroes · as Narrator
2002
Tuck Everlasting · as Man In The Yellow Suit
2001
Spooky House · as The Great Zamboni
2001
The Triumph of Love · as Hermocrates
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence · as Specialist (voice)
2001
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (TV Series) · as Otto Frank
2000
Sexy Beast · as Don Logan
2000
Rules of Engagement · as Ambassador Mourain
2000
1999
A Force More Powerful · as Narator
1999
CNN Millennium (TV Series) · as Narrator
1999
Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Cast
1999
Alice in Wonderland · as Major Caterpillar
1999
The Confession · as Harry Fertig
1998
Parting Shots · as Renzo Locatelli
1998
Crime and Punishment · as Magistrate Porfiry
1998
1998
Religions of the World (TV Series) · as Narrator
1997
1997
The Assignment · as Amos
1997
Photographing Fairies · as Rev. Templeton
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction · as Julian Messenger
1996
Twelfth Night · as Feste
1995
Moses · as Moses
1995
Moses (TV Series) · as Moses
1995
Species · as Xavier Fitch
1995
Joseph · as Potifar
1995
Joseph (TV Series) · as Potiphar
1994
The Bible Collection (TV Series) · as Moses
1994
Death and the Maiden · as Dr. Roberto Miranda
1994
Liberation · as Narrator
1993
Schindler's List · as Itzhak Stern
1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer · as Bruce Pandolfini
1993
Dave · as Vice-President Nance
1992
Sneakers · as Cosmo
1992
Freddie as F.R.O.7. · as Freddie (voice)
1991
Bugsy · as Meyer Lansky
1991
1991
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver · as Narrator (voice)
1991
1990
O Quinto Macaco · as Cunda
1990
The Children · as Martin Boyne
1990
Cellini: A Violent Life · as Governatore
1990
Romeo.Juliet · as Father Capulet (voice)
1989
Slipstream · as Avatar
1989
1988
Lenin: The Train · as Lenin
1988
Lenin: The Train (TV Series) · as Lenin
1988
Without a Clue · as Dr. John Watson
1988
Pascali's Island · as Basil Pascali
1988
The Secret of the Sahara (TV Series) · as Sholomon
1987
Testimony · as Dmitri Shostakovich
1987
Maurice · as Lasker-Jones
1985
Silas Marner · as Silas Marner
1985
Turtle Diary · as William Snow
1985
Harem · as Selim
1984
Camille · as Duval
1984
Oxbridge Blues (TV Series) · as Geoff Craven
1983
Betrayal · as Robert
1982
1982
Gandhi · as Mahatma Gandhi
1982
1978
1976
Dickens of London (TV Series) · as Dr. John Elliotson
1975
The Love School (TV Series) · as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1974
Antony and Cleopatra · as Thidias
1973
Playhouse (TV Series) · as Ivanov
1973
Wessex Tales (TV Series)
1973
Hard Labour · as Naseem
1972
Fear Is the Key · as Royale
1972
Crown Court (TV Series) · as Jeremy Leigh
1972
The Adventurer (TV Series) · as Pierre
1970
Play for Today (TV Series) · as Naseem
1967
Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Edgar Allan Poe
1965
Jackanory (TV Series) · as Cast
1965
Pardon The Expression (TV Series) · as Roy
1960
Coronation Street (TV Series) · as Ron Jenkins
1951
Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Duval

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