Ben Kingsley

Acting

Born 1943-12-31 Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK 219 credits Academy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 2 BAFTA Awards 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 Grammy Awards 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 3 nominated

2004 Best Actor Nominated House of Sand and Fog
2002 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Sexy Beast
1992 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Bugsy
1983 Best Actor Won Gandhi

Primetime Emmy Awards 2 nominated

2006 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated Mrs. Harris
1995 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated Joseph

Golden Globe Awards 2 won

1982 New Star of the Year – Actor Won Gandhi
1982 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Won Gandhi

BAFTA Awards 2 won · 1 nominated

1994 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated Schindler's List
1983 Best Actor in a Leading Role Won Gandhi
1983 Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Won Gandhi

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

2002 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Won Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Grammy Awards 1 won

1984 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor 1 won

2014 Best Supporting Actor Won Iron Man 3

Teen Choice Award for Best Villain 1 nominated

2013 Best Villain Nominated Iron Man 3

Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy 1 nominated

2007 Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Nominated You Kill Me

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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).