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).
168 movies · 48 shows
Young Washington
2026·8.2
Deep Water
2026·7.3
Desert Warrior
2026·5.7
The Thursday Murder Club
2025·6.6
The King of Kings
2025·8.3
William Tell
2025·6.2
The Killer's Game
2024·6.4
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024·7.4
Poison
2023·6.9
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023·7.3
Jules
2023·7.1
Dalíland
2022·5.9
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022·10.0
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021·7.5
Locked Down
2021·5.2
The Medicine Buddha
2019·7.3
Night Hunter
2019·6.6
The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019·6.8
Spider in the Web
2019·5.0
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018·0.0
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018·7.3
Inside the Operation
2018·0.0
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018·5.0
Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018·5.3
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018·0.0
Operation Finale
2018·6.7
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018·6.2
An Ordinary Man
2017·6.2
Spielberg
2017·7.5
War Machine
2017·5.6
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017·6.0
Security
2017·6.3
Of Dogs and Men
2016·0.0
Collide
2016·5.6
The Jungle Book
2016·6.9
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015·0.0
The Walk
2015·7.0
Knight of Cups
2015·5.7
Life
2015·6.0
Unity
2015·7.5
Self/less
2015·6.4
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015·5.4
Robot Overlords
2015·4.8
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014·6.2
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014·5.9
Stonehearst Asylum
2014·6.9
The Boxtrolls
2014·6.7
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014·4.8
Learning to Drive
2014·6.2
Walking with the Enemy
2014·6.3
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014·6.8
War Story
2014·4.1
The Physician
2013·7.3
Ender's Game
2013·6.6
Muse of Fire
2013·6.5
A Common Man
2013·5.7
A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013·5.8
Iron Man 3
2013·6.9
It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
2012·0.0
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012·0.0
The Dictator
2012·6.2
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012·6.0
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012·6.0
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012·0.0
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012·6.0
Hugo
2011·7.2
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011·4.7
Aral, the Lost Sea
2010·2.7
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
2010·6.4
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010·6.3
Teen Patti
2010·3.8
Shutter Island
2010·8.2
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
2010·5.5
Journey to Mecca
2009·5.8
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008·6.3
Elegy
2008·6.3
The Wackness
2008·6.4
The Love Guru
2008·4.1
War, Inc.
2008·5.5
TransSiberian
2008·6.4
The Ten Commandments
2007·5.6
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
2007·7.7
The Last Legion
2007·5.6
You Kill Me
2007·6.1
C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
2006·7.5
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
2006·0.0
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
2006·0.0
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006·8.5
Mrs. Harris
2006·5.8
Lucky Number Slevin
2006·7.5
The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
2006·0.0
Peace Is Every Step
2005·10.0
BloodRayne
2005·4.1
Oliver Twist
2005·6.8
A Sound of Thunder
2005·4.9
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005·10.0
Suspect Zero
2004·5.5
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
2004·0.0
Thunderbirds
2004·5.1
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004·6.6
House of Sand and Fog
2003·7.2
Unlikely Heroes
2003·7.8
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003·0.0
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003·7.5
Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
2003·0.0
Tuck Everlasting
2002·6.7
Spooky House
2002·6.0
The Triumph of Love
2001·6.1
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
2001·10.0
The Making of Sexy Beast
2001·0.0
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001·7.1
Islam: Empire of Faith
2001·8.2
Sexy Beast
2001·7.0
Rules of Engagement
2000·6.3
What Planet Are You From?
2000·5.4
A Force More Powerful
1999·8.3
Parting Shots
1999·5.5
The Confession
1999·5.8
Alice in Wonderland
1999·6.2
Crime and Punishment
1998·6.5
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
1998·5.7
The Assignment
1997·6.4
Photographing Fairies
1997·5.7
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997·5.2
Twelfth Night
1996·7.0
Moses
1996·0.0
Species
1995·6.0
Joseph
1995·8.2
Death and the Maiden
1994·7.1
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994·10.0
Liberation
1994·7.9
Schindler's List
1993·8.6
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993·7.1
Dave
1993·6.7
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
1993·0.0
Sneakers
1992·6.9
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992·5.3
Bugsy
1991·6.4
Necessary Love
1991·9.2
Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
1991·0.0
Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
1991·0.0
The War That Never Ends
1991·5.0
The Fifth Monkey
1990·9.0
The Children
1990·4.9
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990·5.4
Romeo.Juliet
1990·7.5
The Making of Slipstream
1989·0.0
Slipstream
1989·4.3
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989·5.9
Lenin: The Train
1988·6.4
Testimony
1988·5.6
Pascali's Island
1988·6.4
Without a Clue
1988·6.7
Maurice
1987·7.6
Silas Marner
1985·5.9
Turtle Diary
1985·6.3
Harem
1985·4.4
To Be Hamlet
1985·0.0
Camille
1984·5.5
Betrayal
1983·6.1
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983·0.0
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982·8.0
Gandhi
1982·7.6
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979·0.0
Thank You, Comrades
1978·0.0
Antony and Cleopatra
1975·7.8
Hard Labour
1973·6.7
Fear Is the Key
1972·5.9