

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances

The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)

Night Hunter
as Cooper

The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin

Spider in the Web
as Adereth

An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self
Inside the Operation
as Self

Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self

Intrigo: Death of an Author
as Henderson

Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann

Backstabbing for Beginners
as Pasha

An Ordinary Man
as The General

Spielberg
as Self

War Machine
as President Karzai

The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Woodruff

Security
as Charlie

Of Dogs and Men
as The Caller (voice)

Collide
as Geran

The Jungle Book
as Bagheera (voice)

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)

The Walk
as Papa Rudy

Knight of Cups
as Storyteller (voice)

Life
as Jack Warner

Unity
as Narrator (voice)

Self/less
as Damian

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Drago (Voice)

Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Merenkahre

Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nun

Stonehearst Asylum
as Silas Lamb

The Boxtrolls
as Snatcher (voice)

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self

Learning to Drive
as Darwan

Walking with the Enemy
as Regent Miklos Horthy

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin

War Story
as Albert

The Physician
as Ibn Sina

Ender's Game
as Mazer Rackham

Muse of Fire
as Self

A Common Man
as The Man

A Birder's Guide to Everything
as Lawrence Konrad

Iron Man 3
as Trevor Slattery

It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Narrator

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self

The Dictator
as Tamir

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
as Self

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
as Self

Hugo
as Georges Méliès

The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
Aral, the Lost Sea

Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
as Narrator

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Nizam

Teen Patti
as Perci Trachtenberg

Shutter Island
as Dr. Cawley

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
as Al-Jazari / Librarian

Journey to Mecca
as Narrator

Fifty Dead Men Walking
as Fergus

Elegy
as David Kepesh

The Wackness
as Dr. Squires

The Love Guru
as Guru Tugginmypuddha

War, Inc.
as Walken / The Viceroy

TransSiberian
as Grinko

The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (voice)

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
as Self

The Last Legion
as Ambrosinus

You Kill Me
as Frank Falenczyk

C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia
as Self

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self

50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self

Lucky Number Slevin
as The Rabbi

BloodRayne
as Kagan

The Life and Faith of CS Lewis
Peace Is Every Step
as Narrator

Oliver Twist
as Fagin

Mrs. Harris
as Herman Tarnower

A Sound of Thunder
as Charles Hatton

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)

Suspect Zero
as Benjamin O'Ryan
No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds
as Self

Thunderbirds
as The Hood

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self

House of Sand and Fog
as Behrani

Unlikely Heroes
as Narrator

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self

Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land
as Narrator

Tuck Everlasting
as Man in the Yellow Suit

Spooky House
as The Great Zamboni

The Triumph of Love
as Hermocrates
Ben Kingsley Talks About "Gandhi"
as Self - Interviewee

The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Specialist (voice)

Islam: Empire of Faith
as Self - Narrator

Sexy Beast
as Don Logan

Rules of Engagement
as Ambassador Mourain

What Planet Are You From?
as Graydon
A Force More Powerful
as Narator

Parting Shots
as Renzo Locatelli

The Confession
as Harry Fertig

Alice in Wonderland
as Major Caterpillar

Crime and Punishment
as Magistrate Porfiry

The Tale of Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd

The Assignment
as Amos

Photographing Fairies
as Rev. Templeton

Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Julian Messenger

Twelfth Night
as Feste

Species
as Xavier Fitch

Joseph
as Potiphar

Death and the Maiden
as Dr. Roberto Miranda

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Self

Liberation
as Narrator

Schindler's List
as Itzhak Stern

Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bruce Pandolfini

Dave
as Vice-President Nance

The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
as Self / The King (voice)

Sneakers
as Cosmo

Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Freddie (voice)

Bugsy
as Meyer Lansky

Necessary Love

Rabbit Ears - Moses the Lawgiver
as Narrator (voice)

Rabbit Ears - The Tiger and the Brahmin
as Narrator (voice)

The War That Never Ends
as Pericles

The Fifth Monkey
as Cunda

The Children
as Martin Boyne

Cellini: A Violent Life
as Governor

Romeo.Juliet
as Father Capulet (voice)

The Making of Slipstream

Slipstream
as Avatar

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Simon Wiesenthal

Lenin: The Train
as Lenin

Testimony
as Dmitri Shostakovich

Pascali's Island
as Basil Pascali

Without a Clue
as Dr. John Watson

Maurice
as Lasker-Jones

Silas Marner
as Silas Marner

Turtle Diary
as William Snow

Harem
as Selim

To Be Hamlet
as Self

Camille
as Duval

Betrayal
as Robert
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self

The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Frank Ford

Gandhi
as Mahatma Gandhi