Sir Ben Kingsley is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 years. He has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award from four nominations.
Birth Name
Krishna Bhanji
Born
Friday, 31 December 1943
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Locked Down | Malcolm | 2021 |
Long Gone Heroes | General Roman | 2021 |
Dali Land | Salvador Dali | 2021 |
The Way of the Wind | 2020 |
Coronation Street: Compilations | Ron Jenkins | 2020 |
The Medicine Buddha | Narration | 2019 |
Night Hunter | Cooper | 2019 |
The Red Sea Diving Resort | Ethan Levin | 2019 |
The Movies | Mahatma Gandhi (archive footage) | 2019 |
Perpetual Grace, LTD | Pastor Byron Brown | 2019 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Locked Down | Malcolm | 2021 |
Long Gone Heroes | General Roman | 2021 |
Dali Land | Salvador Dali | 2021 |
The Way of the Wind | 2020 |
Coronation Street: Compilations | Ron Jenkins | 2020 |
The Medicine Buddha | Narration | 2019 |
Night Hunter | Cooper | 2019 |
The Red Sea Diving Resort | Ethan Levin | 2019 |
The Movies | Mahatma Gandhi (archive footage) | 2019 |
Perpetual Grace, LTD | Pastor Byron Brown | 2019 |
Spider in the Web | Adereth | 2019 |
Watership Down | General Woundwort (voice) | 2018 |
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Himself / Self | 2018 |
Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson | 2018 |
Operation Finale | Adolph Eichmann | 2018 |
All or Nothing: Manchester City | Himself - Narrator | 2018 |
Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha / Pasha Pasaris | 2018 |
Spielberg | Himself - Actor | 2017 |
War Machine | President Karzai | 2017 |
The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff | 2017 |
Security | Charlie | 2017 |
Collide | Geran | 2016 |
The Jungle Book | Bagheera (voice) | 2016 |
The Walk | Papa Rudy | 2015 |
Let's Go, DFW! | Himself - Guest | 2015 |
Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015 |
Life | Jack Warner | 2015 |
Tut | Ay | 2015 |
Celebrity Conversations | Himself | 2015 |
Self/less | Damian | 2015 |
Lip Sync Battle | Self - Competitor | 2015 |
The Late Late Show with James Corden | Himself - Guest, Himself | 2015 |
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Drago (Voice) | 2015 |
Celebrity P.O.V. | Himself | 2015 |
Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe | 2015 |
Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb | Merenkahre (Ahk's Father) | 2014 |
Exodus: Gods And Kings | Nun | 2014 |
Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb | 2014 |
The Boxtrolls | Snatcher (voice) | 2014 |
Learning To Drive | Darwan | 2014 |
Garfunkel and Oates | Himself | 2014 |
War Story | Albert | 2014 |
Walking with the Enemy | Regent Miklos Horthy | 2014 |
Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self - Guest | 2014 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest | 2014 |
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King | Trevor Slattery | 2014 |
And the Oscar Goes To... | Himself - Actor (archive footage) | 2014 |
The Physician | Ibn Sina | 2013 |
Ender's Game | Mazer Rackham | 2013 |
Muse of Fire | Himself | 2013 |
Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
Hollywood Health Report | Himself - Guest | 2013 |
A Common Man | The Man | 2013 |
Iron Man 3 | Trevor Slattery | 2013 |
A Birder's Guide to Everything | Lawrence Konrad | 2013 |
It Is No Dream | Narrator | 2012 |
Larry King Now | Himself - Guest | 2012 |
The Dictator | Tamir | 2012 |
The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards | Himself - Audience Member | 2012 |
CBS This Morning | Himself | 1992 |
Hugo | Georges Méliès | 2011 |
The Jonathan Ross Show | Self - Guest | 2011 |
The Desert of Forbidden Art | Igor Savitsky (voice) | 2011 |
Conan | Himself - Guest | 2010 |
The Talk | Self - Guest | 2010 |
Aral. El mar perdido | (voice) | 2010 |
Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Narrator (voice) | 2010 |
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time | Nizam | 2010 |
Teen Patti | Perci Trachtenberg | 2010 |
Shutter Island | Dr. Cawley | 2010 |
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | Al-Jazari / Librarian | 2010 |
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Himself - Guest (as Sir Ben Kingsley) | 2009 |
Skavlan | Self - Guest | 2009 |
Journey to Mecca | Narrator | 2009 |
Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus | 2008 |
The Wackness | Dr. Squires | 2008 |
The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypudha | 2008 |
War, Inc. | The Viceroy | 2008 |
Elegy | David Kepesh | 2008 |
The Ten Commandments | Narrated by (voice) | 2007 |
China's Stolen Children | Narrator | 2007 |
Making 'Cleaver' | Himself (archive footage) | 2007 |
British Film Forever | Himself (archive footage) | 2007 |
You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk | 2007 |
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition | Himself | 2007 |
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal | Self | 2007 |
The Last Legion | Merlin | 2007 |
Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | 2006 |
Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi (as Sir Ben Kingsley) | 2006 |
Bloodrayne | Kagan | 2005 |
The Colbert Report | Himself - Guest | 2005 |
Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
Oliver Twist | Fagin | 2005 |
The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer | Himself (archive footage) (as Sir Ben Kingsley) | 2005 |
Religions of the World | Narrator | 2005 |
A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton (as Sir Ben Kingsley) | 2005 |
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Himself - Guest (as Sir Ben Kingsley), Himself - Guest | 2005 |
Suspect Zero | Benjamin O'Ryan | 2004 |
Thunderbirds | The Hood | 2004 |
Behind the Scenes of 'House of Sand and Fog' | Himself | 2004 |
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | 2004 |
House of Sand and Fog | Behrani | 2003 |
Shootout | Himself | 2003 |
Unlikely Heroes | Narrator (voice) | 2003 |
Celebrities Uncensored | Himself | 2003 |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Himself - Guest | 2003 |
Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit | 2002 |
Autograph | Himself | 2002 |
Spooky House | The Great Zamboni | 2002 |
The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | 2001 |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Specialist | 2001 |
Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank | 2001 |
Islam: Empire of Faith | Narrator | 2001 |
Sexy Beast | Don Logan | 2001 |
Rules Of Engagement | Mourain | 2000 |
What Planet Are You From? | Graydon | 2000 |
A Force More Powerful | Narator | 1999 |
Independent Lens | (voice) | 1999 |
Millennium: A Thousand Years of History | Himself - Narrator | 1999 |
Parting Shots | Renzo Locatelli | 1999 |
Alice in Wonderland | Major Caterpillar | 1999 |
The Confession | Harry Fertig | 1999 |
The Sopranos | Himself | 1999 |
The Directors | Himself | 1999 |
Crime And Punishment | Porfiry | 1998 |
The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | 1998 |
Peace Is Every Step: Meditation in Action: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh | Narrator | 1998 |
The Assignment | Amos | 1997 |
Photographing Fairies | Rev. Templeton | 1997 |
Weapons Of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger | 1997 |
Twelfth Night | Feste | 1996 |
Species | Xavier Fitch | 1995 |
Joseph | Potiphar | 1995 |
Extra with Billy Bush | Self (archive footage) | 1994 |
Inside the Actors Studio | Himself - Guest | 1994 |
Death And The Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda | 1994 |
Liberation | Narrator | 1994 |
Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern | 1993 |
Late Show with David Letterman | Himself - Guest | 1993 |
Searching For Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini | 1993 |
Dave | Vice-President Nance | 1993 |
Sneakers | Cosmo | 1992 |
Freddie as F.R.O.7. | Freddie (voice) | 1992 |
Bugsy | Meyer Lansky | 1991 |
O Quinto Macaco | Cunda | 1990 |
The Children | Martin Boyne | 1990 |
Slipstream | Avatar | 1989 |
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal | 1989 |
Lenin: The Train | Lenin | 1988 |
Testimony | Dimitri Shostakovich | 1988 |
Without A Clue | Dr. Watson | 1988 |
Pascali's Island | Basil Pascali | 1988 |
Secret of the Sahara | Sholomon | 1988 |
Maurice | Lasker-Jones | 1987 |
Silas Marner | Silas Marner | 1985 |
Harem | Selim | 1985 |
Turtle Diary | William Snow | 1985 |
Camille | Duval | 1984 |
Betrayal | Robert | 1983 |
Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | 1982 |
Timewatch | Himself - Interviewee | 1982 |
Playing Shakespeare | Himself | 1982 |
Entertainment Tonight | Himself (archive footage), Himself | 1981 |
Wetten, dass..? | 1981 |
The South Bank Show | Self - Guest | 1978 |
Arena | Himself | 1975 |
BBC2 Playhouse | Ivanov | 1974 |
Wessex Tales | Lord Uplandtowers | 1973 |
Fear Is The Key | Royale | 1972 |
Crown Court | Jeremy Leigh | 1972 |
The Adventurer | Pierre | 1972 |
Play for Today | Naseem | 1970 |
Pardon the Expression | Roy | 1965 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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An Ordinary Man | 2017 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2007 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
2006 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
2004 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
2004 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | Nominated |
2002 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
2002 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Nominated |
2002 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
2001 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
1995 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
1992 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
1992 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Nominated |
1990 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
1989 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
1983 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Won |
1983 | Golden Globe | Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | Won |
1983 | Golden Globe | New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male | Won |