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    Ben Kingsley

    1943-12-31 (80 years old) in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

    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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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    63 %|Oct 9, 2017
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    62.21 %|Dec 17, 2014
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    73.42 %|Dec 25, 2013
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    66 %|Oct 24, 2013
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    53 %|May 22, 2012
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    71.74000000000001 %|Nov 22, 2011
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    The Desert of Forbidden Art
    47 %|Mar 18, 2011
    History, Documentary
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    80 %|Jun 8, 2010
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    1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
    55 %|Jan 21, 2010
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    50 Films to See Before You Die
    85 %|Jul 22, 2006
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    Mrs. Harris
    60 %|Feb 25, 2006
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    41 %|Oct 22, 2005
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    49.74 %|Jul 23, 2004
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    Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
    65 %|Jan 1, 2004
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    60 %|Apr 19, 2002
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    84 %|May 8, 2001
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    Parting Shots
    61 %|May 14, 1999
    Romance, Crime, Comedy
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    57 %|Aug 30, 1998
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    63 %|Sep 28, 1997
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    69 %|Oct 25, 1996
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    70.85 %|Aug 13, 1993
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    51 %|Aug 14, 1992
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    92 %|Nov 27, 1991
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    52 %|May 18, 1990
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    57 %|Nov 1, 1988
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    64 %|Jul 22, 1988
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    66 %|Dec 6, 1985
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    56 %|Dec 11, 1984
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    81 %|Oct 1, 1983
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    65 %|Mar 12, 1973
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    80 %|Dec 28, 1982
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    72 %|Mar 12, 2021
    Documentary
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    73.89999999999999 %|Jan 8, 2021
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    72 %|Jun 2, 2019
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    68 %|Dec 22, 2018
    Animation, Drama
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    64 %|Apr 2, 2015
    Reality, Comedy
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    Comedy
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    Late Night with Seth Meyers
    55 %|Feb 25, 2014
    Talk, Comedy
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    The One Show
    46 %|Aug 14, 2006
    Talk
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    War & Politics
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