Persona
Ben Kingsley
Nato/a: 31/12/1943(82 anni)
Biografia
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).
Filmografia
Conosciuto per
Sonic 4 - Il film
(voice) · 2027
Young Washington
Robert Dinwiddie · 2026
The Old Stories: Moses
Moses · 2026
Deep Water - Incubo degli abissi
Rich · 2026
Desert Warrior
Emperor Kisra II · 2026
Wonder Man
Trevor Slattery · 2026
Il club dei delitti del giovedì
Ibrahim · 2025
Guglielmo Tell
King Albrecht · 2025
The Killer's Game
Zvi Rabinowitz · 2024
La meravigliosa storia di Henry Sugar e altre tre storie
Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage) · 2024
Veleno
Dr. Ganderbai · 2023
La meravigliosa storia di Henry Sugar
Imdad Khan / Croupier · 2023
Jules
Milton Robinson · 2023
Daliland
Dalí · 2022
Shang-Chi e la leggenda dei dieci anelli
Trevor Slattery · 2021
Locked Down
Malcolm · 2021
Marvel Studios Legends
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage) · 2021
Night Hunter - Il cacciatore della notte
Cooper · 2019
Red Sea Diving
Ethan Levin · 2019
Perpetual Grace LTD
Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown · Pastor Byron “Pa” Brown · 2019
La collina dei conigli
General Woundwort (voice) · 2018
Operation Finale
Adolf Eichmann · 2018
Tutto o niente: Manchester City
Narrator (voice) · Narrator · 2018
Giochi di potere
Pasha · 2018
Un uomo ordinario
The General · 2017
Spielberg
Self · 2017
War Machine
President Karzai · 2017
Il tenente ottomano
Woodruff · 2017
Security
Charlie · 2017
Autobahn - Fuori controllo
Geran · 2016
Il libro della giungla
Bagheera (voice) · 2016
The Walk
Papa Rudy · 2015
Life
Jack Warner · 2015
Unity
Narrator (voice) · 2015
Tut - Il destino di un faraone
Ay · 2015
Self/less
Damian · 2015
Lip Sync Battle
Self · 2015
DragonHeart 3 - La maledizione dello stregone
Drago (Voice) · 2015
Robot Overlords
Robin Smythe · 2015
Una notte al museo 3 - Il segreto del faraone
Merenkahre · 2014
Exodus - Dei e Re
Nun · 2014
Stonehearst Asylum
Silas Lamb · 2014
Boxtrolls - Le scatole magiche
Snatcher (voice) · 2014
Garfunkel and Oates
Ben Kingsley · 2014
Walking with the Enemy
Regent Miklos Horthy · 2014
Irripetibili Marvel: Viva il Re
Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin · 2014
Medicus
Ibn Sina · 2013
Ender's Game
Mazer Rackham · 2013
Iron Man 3
Trevor Slattery · 2013
Il dittatore
Tamir · 2012
Hugo Cabret
Georges Méliès · 2011
Prince of Persia - Le sabbie del tempo
Nizam · 2010
Shutter Island
Dr. Cawley · 2010
Lezioni d'amore
David Kepesh · 2008
Fa' la cosa sbagliata
Dr. Squires · 2008
The Love Guru
Guru Tugginmypuddha · 2008
War, Inc.
Walken / The Viceroy · 2008
TransSiberian
Grinko · 2008
L'ultima legione
Ambrosinus · 2007
Slevin - Patto criminale
The Rabbi · 2006
BloodRayne
Kagan · 2005
Oliver Twist
Fagin · 2005
Thunderbirds
The Hood · 2004
La casa di sabbia e nebbia
Behrani · 2003
Tuck Everlasting - Vivere per sempre
Man in the Yellow Suit · 2002
Il trionfo dell'amore
Hermocrates · 2001
A.I. - Intelligenza Artificiale
Specialist (voice) · 2001
La storia di Anna Frank
Otto Frank · 2001
Sexy Beast - L'ultimo colpo della bestia
Don Logan · 2001
Regole d'onore
Ambassador Mourain · 2000
Da che pianeta vieni?
Graydon · 2000
Alice nel paese delle meraviglie
Major Caterpillar · 1999
La bottega degli orrori di Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd · 1998
Specie mortale
Xavier Fitch · 1995
Giuseppe
Potiphar · 1995
La morte e la fanciulla
Dr. Roberto Miranda · 1994
Schindler's List
Itzhak Stern · 1993
In cerca di Bobby Fischer
Bruce Pandolfini · 1993
Dave - Presidente per un giorno
Vice-President Nance · 1993
I signori della truffa
Cosmo · 1992
Bugsy
Meyer Lansky · 1991
Senza indizio
Dr. John Watson · 1988
Maurice
Lasker-Jones · 1987
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi · 1982
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 1944