Ben Kingsley Wallpapers

Ben Kingsley Wallpapers

Ben Kingsley Actor Wallpapers, Biography, filmography, Photos

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning British actor.
Early life

Kingsley was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and grew up in Pendlebury, Salford, then in Lancashire. His father, Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor of Indian (Gujarati Hindu) descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary, was a fashion model and actress; one of his maternal grandparents was a Jewish immigrant from Russia.[1] He began his acting career on the stage at Manchester Grammar School alongside Robert Powell, but made a transition to film roles early on. It was at this point that he changed his name, fearing a foreign name would hamper his career.

Film career

Kingsley's first film role was a supporting turn in Fear Is the Key (1972). Kingsley continued starring in bit roles in both film and television (including a bit part on the soap opera Coronation Street). He found fame only years later, starring as Mahatma Gandhi in the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi in 1982. Kingsley was critically acclaimed and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role.

Kingsley has avoided stereotyping and has been cast in a variety of roles. His credits include the films Turtle Diary, Maurice, Pascali's Island, Without a Clue (as Dr. Watson opposite Michael Caine's Sherlock Holmes), Bugsy (Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor), Sneakers, Dave, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Schindler's List, Silas Marner, Death and the Maiden, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, Sexy Beast (for which he received another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor) and House of Sand and Fog (Oscar nomination for Best Actor). He has won a Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2001.

In 1997, he provided voice acting for the video game Ceremony of Innocence.

In July 2006, he received an Emmy nomination for his performance in the TV movie Mrs. Harris, in which he played an abusive husband.

Sometime in 2007, Ben Kingsley will appear as an American mobster in his next film, the Mafia Comedy You Kill Me.

Filmography

Year Title Role
2007 You Kill Me Frank Falenczyk
2006 Lucky Number Slevin Schlomo
2006 The Sopranos As himself
2005 BloodRayne Kagan
2005 Mrs. Harris Herman Tarnower
2005 Oliver Twist Fagin
2005 A Sound of Thunder Charles Hatton
2004 Suspect Zero Benjamin O'Ryan
2004 Thunderbirds The Hood
2003 House of Sand and Fog Behrani
2002 Tuck Everlasting Man in the Yellow Suit
2002 The Triumph of Love Hermocrates
2001 AI: Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2000 Islam: Empire of Faith Narrator
2000 Rules of Engagement Ambassador Mourain
2000 What Planet Are You From? Graydon
1999 Alice in Wonderland (TV) Major Caterpillar
1997 The Assignment (TV) Amos
1996 Twelfth Night Feste
1995 Joseph Potiphar
1995 Species Xavier Fitch
1994 Death and the Maiden Dr. Roberto Miranda
1993 Schindler's List Itzhak Stern
1993 Dave Vice President Nance
1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer Bruce Pandolfini
1992 Sneakers Cosmo
1991 Bugsy Meyer Lansky Barry Levinson film
1989 Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story Simon Wiesenthal
1990 The 5th Monkey Cunda
1988 Testimony - The Story of Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich
1988 Without a Clue Dr. John Watson
1988 Pascali's Island Basil Pascali
1987 Maurice Lasker-Jones
1987 The Secret of the Sahara Sholomon
1986 Turtle Diary William Snow
1985 Harem Selim
1985 Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe Silas Marner
1983 Betrayal Robert
1982 Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi

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