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Ben Kingsley was born in the last day of the 1943 year. He is a famous British actor, whose real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji. He was born in Scarborough, which is located in the Yorkshire. His father was a doctor, whose name was Rhahitmullah Hargee Bhangee, who was originally from Kenya, and his mother was the British actress Anna Lina Mary Goodman who was Jewish. His carrier he started from performing on the theater stage. While following his father’s advice, he changed his real name into the pen name Ben Kingsley. Since 1967 he was the member of the Royal Shakespeare Theater. His first role in the cinema was in the movie – “The fear opens the doors” in 1972. After that he was performing a lot in the TV shows. In 1982 he performed in the play by Richard Attenborough “Gandhi” for the role in which he got an Oscar award. Besides that he was nominated for an Oscar in 2002, for the role in the movie “Sexual Beast” and a year later he was nominated for the movie “The House made of Sand and Fog”. In 2000 he was honored with the Order of the British Emperor. He was married for four times, and has four children- Thomas, Jasmine from the actress Angela, and Edmund and Ferdinand from the theater director Alyson Sutcliff.

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Here you can learn about the movies Ben Kingsley acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Nizam	$200M	2010	$37.8M	$90.8M
A.I. Artificial Intelligence - Specialist (voice)	$90M	2001	$29.4M	$78.6M
The Last Legion - Ambrosinus/Merlin	$67M	2007	$2.75M	$5.93M
The Love Guru - Guru Tugginmypudha	$62M	2008	$13.9M	$32.2M
Rules of Engagement - Ambassador Mourain	$60M	2000	$15M	$61.3M
Thunderbirds - The Hood	$57M	2004	$2.77M	$6.77M
A Sound of Thunder - Charles Hatton (as Sir Ben Kingsley)	$52M	2005	$1.19M	$1.89M
What Planet Are You From? - Graydon	$50M	2000	$3.01M	$6.29M
Oliver Twist - Fagin	$50M	2005	$68.4K	$1.99M
Species - Xavier Fitch	$35M	1995		$60.1M
Bugsy - Meyer Lansky	$30M	1991		$49.1M
Suspect Zero - Benjamin O'Ryan	$27M	2004	$3.45M	$8.71M
Schindler's List - Itzhak Stern	$25M	1993		$96.1M
BloodRayne - Kagan	$25M	2005	$1.55M	$1.55M
Gandhi - Mahatma Gandhi, Soundtrack (performer: "God Save the King!" (1744) (uncredited))	$22M	1982
Tuck Everlasting - Man in the Yellow Suit	$15M	2002	$5.27M	$19.2M
House of Sand and Fog - Behrani	$15M	2003	$45.6K	$13M
Transsiberian - Grinko	$15M	2008	$34.6K	$2.2M
Elegy - David Kepesh	$13M	2008	$104K	$3.58M
Death and the Maiden - Dr. Roberto Miranda	$12M	1994		$2.1M