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 an ... d 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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| Organization | Category | Movie | |
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| Academy Awards | Best Actor | Gandhi | Won |
| Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Gandhi | Won |
| Academy Awards | Best Actor | The Last Emperor | Won |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Actor | Gandhi | Won |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Actor | The Last Emperor | Won |
| Sundance Film Festival | Best Supporting Actor | The Wackness | Won |
Orlando
as Peter Batterby
Episodes: 72
First Aired: Apr 13, 1965
Dickens Of London
as Dr. John Elliotson
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Sep 28, 1976
Religion of the World
as Narrator
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Jan 01, 2004
Religions of the World
as Narrator
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Jan 01, 1998
CNN Millennium
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Episodes: 10
First Aired: Oct 24, 1999
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown
Episodes: 10
First Aired: Jun 02, 2019
All or Nothing: Manchester City
as Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Aug 17, 2018
The Love School
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jan 22, 1975
The Secret of the Sahara
as Sholomon
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jan 03, 1988
Playhouse
as Robert Cibrario
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Mar 13, 1974
Playhouse
as Ivanov
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Mar 13, 1974
Islam: Empire of Faith
as Narrator
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First Aired: May 08, 2001
Tut
as Ay
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jul 19, 2015
Watership Down
as General Woundwort (voice)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Dec 22, 2018
Joseph
as Potiphar
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Apr 16, 1995
Lenin... The Train
as Lenin
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Nov 30, 1988
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
as Otto Frank
Episodes: 2
First Aired: May 20, 2001
Wonder Man
as Trevor Slattery
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Unknown
Moses
as Moses
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Apr 07, 1996
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Duval
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
The Adventurer
as Pierre
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1972
Oxbridge Blues
as Geoff Craven
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 14, 1984
Marvel Studios Legends
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 08, 2021
The Sopranos
as Ben Kingsley
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 10, 1999
Garfunkel and Oates
as Ben Kingsley
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 07, 2014
Playing Shakespeare
Episodes: 9
First Aired: Jul 29, 1984
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Pebble Mill at One
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 09, 1972
The One Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 14, 2006
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 03, 1978
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 12, 2021
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 14, 1981
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 03, 2005
Rove
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 22, 1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 25, 2014
Wessex Tales
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 07, 1973
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 02, 2015
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 25, 1966
Bambi Awards
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 01, 1948
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 19, 1953
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1981
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 14, 1994
Seitenblicke
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1987
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
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