Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor who has received numerous accolades over a career spanning five decades. These include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, along with nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. He was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. In 2010, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2013, he was honored with the Britannia Award.

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 primarily on stage. His notable stage roles included productions of *As You Like It* (his West End debut 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*. He also received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his television 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 best known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's *Gandhi* (1982), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He received a BAFTA nomination for his role as Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's *Schindler's List* (1993). He was also Oscar-nominated for *Bugsy* (1990), *Sexy Beast* (2000), and *House of Sand and Fog* (2003). Other notable film appearances 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 portrayed 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 appeared in the blockbusters *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time* (2010) and *Ender's Game* (2013). Additionally, he provided voice work for *The Boxtrolls* (2014) and *The Jungle Book* (2016).