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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).

Sonic the Hedgehog 4
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Young Washington
as Robert Dinwiddie

The Old Stories: Moses
as Moses

Deep Water
as Rich

Desert Warrior
as Emperor Kisra II

Wonder Man
as Trevor Slattery

The Thursday Murder Club
as Ibrahim

The King of Kings
as High Priest Caiaphas (voice)

William Tell
as King Albrecht

The Killer's Game
as Zvi Rabinowitz

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Imdad Khan / The Dealer / Dr. Ganderbai (archive footage)

Poison
as Dr. Ganderbai

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Imdad Khan / Croupier

Jules
as Milton Robinson

Dalíland
as Dalí

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Trevor Slattery

Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self

Locked Down
as Malcolm

Marvel Studios Legends
as Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (archive footage)

The Medicine Buddha
as Narrator (voice)

Night Hunter
as Cooper

The Red Sea Diving Resort
as Ethan Levin

Perpetual Grace LTD
as Pastor Byron 'Pa' Brown

Spider in the Web
as Adereth

Watership Down
as General Woundwort (voice)
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

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as Self

Operation Finale
as Adolf Eichmann

All or Nothing: Manchester City
as Narrator (voice)

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)

Tut
as Ay

Self/less
as Damian

Lip Sync Battle
as Self

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

Robot Overlords
as Robin Smythe

Der Medicus
as Ibn Sina

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