Ben Kingsley
Birthday
1943/12/31 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Also know as
Sir Ben Kingsley , Krishna Pandit Bhanji, 벤 킹즐리, Krishna Bhanji, Σερ Μπεν Κίνγκσλεϊ, Сер Бен Кингсли, بن کینگزلی
Biography
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 Br...Read more
Acting
(2006) Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi
(2005) Oliver Twist
as Fagin
(1993) Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern
(2001) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)
(1982) Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi
(1994) Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda
(1992) Sneakers
as Cosmo
(1985) To Be Hamlet
as Self
(2005) A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton
(1995) Joseph
as Potifar
(2006) C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as Self
(1991) Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky
(2000) What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon
(1990) Lenin: The Train
as Lenin
(2000) Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain
(2003) House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani
(1999) The Confession
as Harry Fertig
(1993) Dave
as Vice-President Nance
(2010) Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley
(2007) The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)
(1989) Slipstream
as Avatar
(2008) TransSiberian
as Grinko
(1999) Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar
(2001) Sexy Beast
as Don Logan
(2004) Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan
(2007) You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk
(2008) Elegy
as David Kepesh
(1972) Fear Is the Key
as Royale
(2008) The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha
(1987) Maurice
as Lasker-Jones
(1988) Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson
(2010) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Nizam
(2008) War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy
(1995) Species
as Xavier Fitch
(1985) Harem
as Selim
(2007) The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus
(2010) Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg
(2025) Desert Warrior
as Emperor Kisra
(2001) The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates
(2002) Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit
(2008) The Wackness
as Dr. Squires
(1993) Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini
(2023) Jules
as Milton Robinson
(2004) Thunderbirds
as The Hood
(1990) The Children
as Martin Boyne
(2006) 50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
(1996) Twelfth Night
as Feste
(2011) Hugo
as Georges Méliès
(2023) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier
(2008) Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus
(2001) Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator
(1997) The Assignment
as Amos
(2013) Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery
(2013) Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham
(2024) The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz
(1983) Schindler
as Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)
(2012) The Dictator
as Tamir
(1999) A Force More Powerful
as Narator
(2006) Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower
(1985) Silas Marner
as Silas Marner
(2011) The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
(2004) Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
(1985) Turtle Diary
as William Snow
(1999) Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli
(2013) A Common Man
as The Man
(1992) Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)
(2012) It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator
(2002) Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni
(2012) A Therapy
as Therapist
(1988) Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich
(2004) No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
as Self
(1988) Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali
(2010) Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
as Self
(2012) The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
as Self
(2012) Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
(2012) The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self
(2012) Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as Self
(1998) The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd
(1983) Betrayal
as Robert
(2014) Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre
(1984) Camille
as Duval
(2013) The Physician
as Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
(2005) BloodRayne
as Kagan
(2010) Aral, the Lost Sea
as ---
(2014) The Boxtrolls
as Snatcher (voice)
(2013) A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad
(2003) The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
as ---
(1989) Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal
(2023) Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai
(1994) Liberation
as Narrator
(2013) Muse of Fire
as Self
(1979) Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
as Ivanov
(2015) Self/less
as Damian
(2014) Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin
(2015) Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe
(2014) War Story
as Albert
(1975) Antony and Cleopatra
as Thidias
(2003) Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator
(2014) Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy
(2014) Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun
(2025) William Tell
as King Albrecht
(1997) Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton
(2009) Journey to Mecca
as Narrator
(2016) The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)
(2014) Learning to Drive
as Darwan
(1990) The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda
(2014) Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb
(2022) Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self
(2015) The Walk
as Papa Rudy
(2015) Life
as Jack Warner
(1997) Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger
(2005) Peace Is Every Step
as Narrator
(2026) Deep Water
as ---
(2016) Collide
as Geran
(2015) Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)
(2014) Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
(2005) Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2003) The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
(1998) Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry
(2006) Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
(2015) Unity
as Narrator (voice)
(2010) Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator
(2024) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)
(2015) Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
(2025) The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim
(2015) Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)
(1991) Necessary Love
as ---
(2001) The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
(1991) The War That Never Ends
as Pericles
(2025) The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)
(1990) Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governor
(2017) An Ordinary Man
as The General
(2016) Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)
(2017) War Machine
as President Karzai
(2017) The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff
(1973) Hard Labour
as Naseem
(2019) Night Hunter
as Cooper
Mary
as King Herod
(2017) Security
as Charlie
(2019) The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin
(2018) Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha
(2017) Spielberg
as Self
(2018) Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson
(2018) Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann
(2019) Spider in the Web
as Adereth
(2022) Dalíland
as Dalí
(1990) Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)
(2018) Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self
(2012) Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
(1982) The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford
(2018) Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self
(2018) Inside the Operation
as Self
(2010) 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian
(2007) I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
as Self
(2021) Locked Down
as Malcolm
The Way of the Wind
as ---
(2019) The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
(1983) Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
(2006) The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
as ---
(2006) The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self
(2021) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery
(1994) Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self
(1991) Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)
(1991) Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)
(2003) Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator
(1989) The Making of Slipstream
as ---
(2018) Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as Self
(2026) Young Washington
as Robert Dinwiddie
(1996) Moïse
as Moses
(1995) Moses
as Moses
(2018) An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)
Fortitude
as ---
(1972) Pebble Mill at One
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Duval
(1972) The Adventurer
as Pierre
(1988) The Secret of the Sahara
as Sholomon
(2001) Islam: Empire of Faith
as Narrator
(1984) Oxbridge Blues
as Geoff Craven
(2021) Marvel Studios Legends
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
(2015) Tut
as Ay
(2021) Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
(1981) Wetten, dass..?
as Self
(2005) The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
(1999) Rove
as Self
(2014) Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
(1973) Wessex Tales
as ---
(2018) Watership Down
as General Woundwort (voice)
(1995) Joseph
as Potiphar
(1999) CNN Millennium
as Narrator
(1988) Lenin... The Train
as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
(2001) Anne Frank: The Whole Story
as Otto Frank
(2015) Lip Sync Battle
as Self
(1984) Playing Shakespeare
as ---
(2018) All or Nothing: Manchester City
as Narrator (voice)
(2004) Religion of the World
as Narrator
(2019) Perpetual Grace LTD
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
(2026) Wonder Man
as Trevor Slattery
(1984) Goldene Kamera
as Self
(1948) Bambi
as Self
(1953) The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
(1981) Entertainment Tonight
as Self
(1996) Moses
as Moses
(1994) Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
(1999) The Sopranos
as Ben Kingsley
(2014) Garfunkel and Oates
as Ben Kingsley
(1987) Seitenblicke
as Self
(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
(1998) Religions of the World
as Narrator
(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
(1974) Playhouse
as Ivanov
(1976) Dickens of London
as Dr. John Elliotson
(1975) The Love School
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti