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Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, born Krishna Bhanji (Scarborough (North Yorkshire), 31 December 1943) is a British actor. He has won more than 25 film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor (for Gandhi), multiple BAFTA Awards, a European Film Award and several Golden Globes. He also received unsolved Oscar nominations for his roles in Bugsy, Sexy Beast and House of Sand and Fog. Fear Is the Key from 1972 was Kingsley's film debut, a few years later he appeared on the soap opera Coronation Street. In 1982 Kingsley instantly became world famous when he played Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi, the cinema film about his life. He received an Academy Award in the Best Actor category for his title role. The film itself won eight Oscars. Played in countless types of films, including Steven Spielberg's famous film about the Holocaust, Schindler's List from 1993. In the light-footed genre he was part of the comedy film Without a Clue from 1988, a parody of the Sherlock. Holmes films in which not Sherlock Holmes (played by Michael Caine) but his assistant Dr. Watson (played by Kingsley) turns out to have investigative skills, which leads to all kinds of funny complications. And in the science fiction genre he made an appearance in Species from 1995, for example.
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