Ben Kingsley’s real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji. He was born in 1943 to the family of a doctor of Indian origin, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji and a British model Anna Lyna Mary Goodman, who had both Russian and Jewish roots. Thanks to his mixed ancestry he was able to play anything – an American gangster, an Arab sheik, a rabbi, an Egyptian pharaoh, the President of Afghanistan, and many others – as he acted in more than 100 movies and TV series over the course of his career.
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Ben Kingsley with his wife Daniela Lavender at the premiere of the movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, 2010
Director Richard Attenborough and Ben Kingsley at the 55th Academy Awards, 1983
Ben Kingsley at the opening ceremony for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 2010
Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi (1982)
Arab sheikh Selim in Harem (1985)
British psychologist Lasker-Jones in Maurice (1987)
Dr. John Watson in Without a Clue (1988)
Vladimir Lenin in Lenin...The Train (1988)
The American gangster Meyer Lansky in Bugsy (1991)
Polish Jew Itzhak Stern in Schindler’s List (1993)
Dr. Roberto Miranda, supporter of the fascist regime in Chile, in the movie Death and the Maiden (1994)
The prophet Moses in Moses, a TV movie (1995)
The Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (1999)
Former Iranian colonel Massoud Amir Behrani in House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Ambrosinus/Merlin in The Last Legion (2007)
Russian policeman Ilya Grinko in Transsiberian (2008)
The younger brother of the Persian king in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Georges Méliès, the owner of the toy store, in Hugo (2011)
The uncle of the dictator of a fictional North African country in The Dictator (2012)
Persian healer and philosopher Ibn Sina in The Physician (2013)
Driving instructor, Darwan Singh Tur, in Learning to Drive (2014)
The Egyptian Pharaoh in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
The president of Afghanistan in War Machine (2017)
Serbian war criminal in An Ordinary Man (2017)
German and Gestapo officer Adolf Eichmann in Operation Finale (2018)