Sir Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley
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Sir Ben Kingsley won the Academy Award, two Golden Globes and two BAFTA Awards for his riveting performance in the title role of GANDHI. In 1984 he was awarded the Padma Sri by Indira Gandhi and the government of India. He went on to earn three additional Oscar nominations for BUGSY (1991), SEXY BEAST (2000) and HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG (2003). In 1994 he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his memorable supporting role as Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's seven-time Oscar winner SCHINDLER'S LIST. His diverse roles range from Vice President Nance in DAVE to Fagin in OLIVER TWIST to The Mandarin in IRON MAN 3.
Kingsley recently completed production on four films: ENDER'S GAME, WALKING WITH THE ENEMY, THE PHYSICIAN, and OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS with Gillian Anderson (to be released in 2014). His many film credits include: A COMMON MAN, A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO EVERYTHING, Sacha Baron Cohen's THE DICTATOR, Martin Scorsese's HUGO and SHUTTER ISLAND, Mike Newell's PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME, 50 DEAD MEN, a thriller set against the dangerous backdrop of 1980s Ireland, and the more lighthearted crime comedy WAR, INC. opposite John Cusack. He also starred in the sexually charged ELEGY opposite Penelope Cruz and for which he was nominated for British Actor of the Year by the London Critics Circle Film Awards.
He also starred in two films at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, The Audience Award-winning and Grand Jury Prize-nominated THE WACKNESS in which he plays a drug-addled psychiatrist and the crime thriller TRANSSIBERIAN, as a mysterious traveler, opposite Woody Harrelson.
Kingsley marked the beginning of his professional acting career with his acceptance by the Royal Shakespeare Company in l967. From roles in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM, THE TEMPEST, Brutus in JULIUS CAESAR, and the title roles in OTHELLO and HAMLET, among others, his more recent and diverse stage roles include those in THE COUNTRY WIFE, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, A BETROTHAL, and WAITING FOR GODOT.
Kingsley was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002. In 2010, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the Madrid International Film Festival in 2013, he was awarded Best Actor for his role in the movie A COMMON MAN.
Ben Kingsley at the Internet Movie Database