Ben Kingsley movies

Biography Early life Kingsley was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and grew up in Pendlebury, Salford, where he studied at University of Salford, then in Lancashire, where he studied at Pendleton College, which is now home to the Ben Kingsley Theatre. 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 who was half Jewish.

He began his acting career on the stage at Manchester Grammar School alongside Robert Powell, but made a transition to film roles early on. Despite this focus on film, he continued to act on the stage, playing Mosca in Peter Halls 1977 production of Ben Jonsons Volpone for the Royal National Theatre. It was at this point that he changed his name, fearing a foreign name would hamper his career. Film career Kingsleys 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 and regular appearances as a defence counsel in the long-running British legal show, Crown Court. He found fame only years later, starring as Mahatma Gandhi in the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi in 1982, his best-known role to date.

Ben Kingsley Movies

All movies starring Ben Kingsley.

• A Sound of Thunder
• BloodRayne
• Bugsy
• Dave
• Gambit
• House of Sand and Fog
• Lucky Number Slevin
• Number 13
• Schindler's List
• Sexy Beast
• War, Inc.
• Transsiberian
• Elegy
• The Last Legion