CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
   

  • Has three films on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time: Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) at #96,

    • Gandhi (1982) at #29, and Schindler’s List (1993) at #3.

  • Won 28 various acting awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor, Gandhi.

  • Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II during the New Year’s Eve Honors List 2001 ceremony.

  • Awarded the title of PADMA SRI (India’s Knighthood) by the late Indira Gandhi.
  FILMOGRAPHY
   

  • Shutter Island

  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

  • Love Guru

  • Wackness

  • Elegy

  • War, Inc.

  • 50 Deadmen Walking

  • Noah's Ark: The new Beginning

  • Transsiberian

  • You Kill Me

  • The Last Legion

  • Lucky Number Slevin

  • Mrs. Harris

  • Oliver Twist

  • A Sound of Thunder

  • Suspect Zero

  • Thunderbirds

  • House of Sand and Fog

  • Tuck Everlasting

  • The Triumph of Love

  • Artificial Intelligence: AI

  • Anne Frank: The Whole Story

  • Sexy Beast

  • Rules of Engagement

  • What Planet Are You From?

  • Spooky House

  • Parting Shots

  • Alice In Wonderland

  • The Confession

  • A Force More Powerful

  • Crime and Punishment

  • The Tale of Sweeney Todd

  • Photographing Fairies

  • The Assignment

  • Weapons of Mass Distraction

  • Twelfth Night: Or What You Will

  • Moses

  • Species

  • Joseph

  • Death and the Maiden

  • Schindler’s List

  • Searching for Bobby Fischer

  • Dave

  • Sneakers

  • Freddie as F.R.O.7

  • Bugsy

  • Amore Necessario, L’

  • The War that Never Ends

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  • and more...

One of the UK’s most respected film, television and theater actors, Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley most recently gained critical acclaim for his starring performance in Phylis Nagy’s  Mrs. Harris, opposite Annette Bening for HBO Films. 

Kingsley was also recently seen starring in Lucky Number Sleven opposite Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman.  He is well known for his performance in Vadim Perelman’s House of Sand and Fog, for which he received an Oscar nomination. 

In 2002, Kingsley received an Oscar nomination, A Broadcast Film Critics Award, as well as both a SAG and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast starring along side Ray Winstone and Ian McShane. 

Kingsley also gained critical acclaim for his appearance in Robert Dornhelm’s four hour television production of Anne Frank portraying Anne Frank’s father Otto Frank for which he received a SAG Award as well as Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominations as Outstanding Lead Actor in a miniseries or feature film.

In 1982, Kingsley won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Sir Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi followed by a BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor and Best Newcomer.  Kingsley then earned the London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for his performance in Harold Pinter’s Portrayal.

Other film credits include Steven Spielberg’s harrowing holocaust drama Schindler’s List, for which he won the London Evening Standard Award and a BAFTA Film nomination; Bugsy for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor; Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist; Bernardo Bertolucci’s Triumph of Love; Stephen Zaillan’s Bobby Fisher; James Dearden’s Pascali’s Island; Tony Palmer’s Testimony; Roman Polanski’s Death and the Maiden; Ivan Reitman’s Dave; and the narrator in Steven Spielberg’s A.I. 

Kingsley was Knighted by the Queen in 2001 and was awarded PADMA SRI by Indira Gandhi in 1984.

2008 is a very busy time for Sir Ben, he has 9 films either completed or in production: Shutter Island, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Love Guru, Wackness, Elegy, War, Inc, 50 Deadmen Walking, Transsiberian, and Noah's Ark: The new Beginning.

His Boutique Production company, SBK Pictures, has acquired the rights to the novel WILL by Christopher Rush and Jutland 1916 by author Peter Hart.