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).
as King Herod
as Sheikh Usman
as (voice)
as Robert Dinwiddie
as Moses(3 eps)
as Rich
as Emperor Kisra II
as Trevor Slattery(8 eps)
as Ibrahim
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
as King Albrecht
as Zvi Rabinowitz
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
as Dr. Ganderbai
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
as Milton Robinson
as Dalí
as Trevor Slattery
as Self(1 ep)
as Malcolm
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)(1 ep)
as Narrator (voice)
as Cooper
as Ethan Levin
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown(10 eps)
as Adereth
as General Woundwort (voice)(2 eps)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Henderson
as Adolf Eichmann
as Narrator (voice)(8 eps)
as Pasha
as The General
as Self
as President Karzai
as Woodruff
as Charlie
as The Caller (voice)
as Geran
as Bagheera (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Papa Rudy
as Storyteller (voice)
as Jack Warner
as Narrator (voice)
as Ay(3 eps)
as Damian
as Self(1 ep)
as Drago (Voice)
as Robin Smythe
as Ibn Sina(2 eps)
as Merenkahre
as Nun
as Silas Lamb
as Snatcher (voice)
as Darwan
as Ben Kingsley(1 ep)
as Regent Miklos Horthy
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Trevor Slattery
as Albert
as Ibn Sina
as Mazer Rackham
as Self
as The Man
as Lawrence Konrad
as Trevor Slattery
as Narrator
as Tamir
as Georges Méliès
as Voice
as Narrator
as Perci Trachtenberg
as Dr. Cawley
as Al-Jazari / Librarian
as Narrator
as Fergus
as David Kepesh
as Dr. Squires
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
as Walken / The Viceroy
as Grinko
as Narrator (voice)
as Ambrosinus
as Frank Falenczyk
as Self
as The Rabbi
as Kagan
as Narrator
as Fagin
as Herman Tarnower
as Charles Hatton
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Benjamin O'Ryan
as The Hood
as Narrator(13 eps)
as Behrani
as Narrator
as Self
as Narrator
as Man in the Yellow Suit
as The Great Zamboni
as Hermocrates
as Self - Interviewee
as Self
as Specialist (voice)
as Otto Frank(2 eps)
as Self - Narrator
as Narrator(3 eps)
as Don Logan
as Ambassador Mourain
as Graydon
as Narator
as Narrator(10 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Renzo Locatelli
as Harry Fertig
as Major Caterpillar
as Ben Kingsley(1 ep)
as Magistrate Porfiry
as Sweeney Todd
as Narrator(13 eps)
as Amos
as Rev. Templeton
as Julian Messenger
as Feste
as Moses(2 eps)
as Self - Nominee(1 ep)
as Xavier Fitch
as Potiphar(2 eps)
as Potiphar
as Self(1 ep)
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
as Narrator (voice)
as Itzhak Stern
as Bruce Pandolfini
as Vice-President Nance
as Self / The King (voice)
as Cosmo
as Freddie (voice)
as Meyer Lansky
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Pericles
as Cunda
as Martin Boyne
as Governor
as Father Capulet (voice)
as Avatar
as Simon Wiesenthal
as Lenin
as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin(2 eps)
as Dmitri Shostakovich
as Basil Pascali
as Dr. John Watson
as Sholomon(4 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Lasker-Jones
as Silas Marner
as William Snow
as Selim
as Self
as Duval
as Geoff Craven(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Robert
as Frank Ford
as Mahatma Gandhi
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Ivanov
as Roberto Cibrario
as Frank Ford(1 ep)
as Chakravarti(1 ep)
as Dr. John Elliotson(2 eps)
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti(5 eps)
as Thidias
as Ivanov(1 ep)
as Lord Uplandtowers(1 ep)
as Naseem
as Royale
as Jeremy Leigh(3 eps)
as Pierre(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Re-enactment(1 ep)
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)
as Duval(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self - Nominee(3 eps)
as Self - Audience Member(1 ep)