Krishna Pandit Bhanji

Named star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Order of the British Empire, title of Knight-Bachelor. And also the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Grammy and Saturn awards. His colleagues can only dream of such a "collection" of honors and awards. But Ben Kingsley did not dream, but worked selflessly. Work and talent turned him into a Hollywood star, the actor's army of fans number in the millions.

Ben Kingsley is half Hindu, half Jewish. The actor's grandfather traded in spices in Zanzibar, his father, Raimtulla Arzhi Bhanji, was born in Kenya, where his father came to trade. Raimtullah trained as a doctor and came to Britain in the 1940s, where he met the beautiful Jewish woman Anna Lina Mary Goodman, a model and actress.

The son of Krishna Bhanji was born on the eve of 1944 in Yorkshire County in the town of Scarborough, located on the North Sea coast. Creativity manifested itself in Krishna in childhood. For the first time, the boy went on stage at a humanitarian school. At Pendleton College and the University of Salford, the urge to enter the theater increased.

In 1967, taking the stage name Ben Kingsley on the advice of his parents, the 23-year-old Krishna became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Theater. Ben Kingsley's creative career began with his debut in the production of "The Insidious Fox" based on the play by Ben Johnson. In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the young artist was entrusted with one of the main roles, which he brilliantly coped with.

Ben Kingsley appeared on the screens in the TV series Coronation Street in 1966, playing Ron Jenkins. The first series was followed by others: "Orlando", "Jackanori", "Play of the Day", "Adventurer", "Royal Court". Kingsley made his feature film debut in 1972, playing Roel in the drama Fear Unlocks the Doors. A decade later, after a series of episodic characters, Ben Kingsley was entrusted with the starring role of Mahatma Gandhi.

Biographical drama "Gandhi", released in screens in 1982, brought the actor worldwide fame and a generous "catch" of awards. Ben received an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for portraying the Mahatma. Critics called the artist "Breakthrough of the Year", and the audience has not let the star out of sight since then. It is noteworthy that the director considered Dustin Hoffman and Anthony Hopkins for the role of Gandhi, but Richard Attenborough preferred a little-known actor. 

Outwardly, Ben Kingsley looked like his hero, and his ancestors were born in the Indian state of Gujarat, in which the Mahatma appeared. The scene of the funeral of the Indian ideologist is included in the Guinness Book of Records. It was attended by 300 thousand people, two-thirds of them were volunteers who paid tribute to the memory of the great countryman. The picture received eight Oscar statuettes, becoming the film of the year, and Ben Kingsley woke up famous. The transformation into Mahatma Gandhi turned out to be difficult: the actor played the hero in the interval from 37 years to the time of the murder at 78 years old.

After working in the drama "Gandhi" in the 1980s, the actor starred in a dozen films, but the next starring role came to him in 1989. Kingsley received an Emmy Award for his work on The Story of Simon Wiesenthal. Three more of the same awards were presented to the actor for his roles in the films "Joseph the Beautiful: Pharaoh's Viceroy", "Anne Frank" and "Mrs. Harris". In the early 1990s, the premiere of the gangster biopic "Bugsy" took place, in which Ben Kingsley played the "mafia accountant" Meer Lansky. For this work, the artist was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

In 1993, Steven Spielberg's drama Schindler's List was released, which tells the story of a German businessman who saved 1,000 Jews from Poland during the Holocaust. Ben Kingsley was entrusted by Spielberg with the role of Isaac Stern, who was rescued by Schindler as a Jewish accountant. 

Ben Kingsley was nominated for Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for his supporting role in the thriller Sexy Beast: he played Don Logan. The same nominations - for the image of Colonel Bernie in Vadim Perelman's drama House of Sand and Fog, released in 2003. After the release of the film "House of Sand and Fog", film critics and fans of Ben Kingsley were again convinced how easy it is for a star to get complex psychological images. 

Another similar role - the head physician of a psychiatric hospital for criminals - the Hollywood actor played in Martin Scorsese's horror film "Island of the Damned", where Ben met Leonardo DiCaprio on the set. The tragic events in the mental hospital are described in the thriller Abode of the Damned, in which Ben Kingsley worked in tandem with Kate Beckinsale. The film is a screen version of the short story by Edgar Poe "The System of Dr. Small and Professor Perrault." Beckinsale played Eliza Graves, a patient of the clinic, Kingsley reincarnated as the director of the institution, Dr. Silas Lamb, a brutal killer and maniac.

In 2007, the premiere of the melodrama "Elegy" by Isabel Coichet took place, in which Ben Kingsley played the main character - teacher and literary critic David, who left his family and leads a riotous lifestyle. One of his mistresses - student Consuela Costillo - was played by Penelope Cruz. The second meeting with director Scorsese is the adventure project "Keeper of Time", which was released in 2011. Chloë Grace Moretz and Asa Butterfield became Ben Kingsley's filming partners. For his work in the film, the actor was nominated for the Saturn Award.

The movie star's new luck is the fantastic action movie Iron Man 3, based on the Marvel comics. For the image of Trevor Slattery, the actor was awarded the Saturn Award. The main role in the film went to Robert Downey Jr. The picture brought the creators $ 1 billion in worldwide distribution. In 2015, Ben Kingsley's fans saw 5 new projects with his participation, the most striking of them being Robert Zemeckis' biopic "The Walk" and the thriller "Out of Myself".

The following year, in The Jungle Book, Bagheera spoke in the voice of Ben Kingsley, and in 2016 the actor was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for his work in the TV series Here. 

Another "loud" premiere of 2016 is the British-German project "Autobahn". For the first time an action movie featuring Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins was seen in Japan. In the filmography of the star, spanning half a century, there are 130 titles of feature-length films and TV series, but the list is replenished with 5-7 new projects every year.

The star has four children. In his first marriage with Angela Morant, Ben had firstborn Thomas and daughter Jasmine. They carry the surname Bhanji. The second wife - director Alison Sutcliffe - gave her husband two boys, who were named Edmund and Ferdinand. Their last name is Kingsley.

The actor's third marriage with colleague Alexandra Christman ended in a scandal: candid pictures of Alexandra appeared on the Internet, after which Ben Kingsley filed for divorce. Two years later, the Briton married again: the fourth wife of Ben was the Brazilian Daniela Lavender, who is 31 years younger than Ben. They got married in the fall of 2007 and live in Britain.

In 2017, the actor presented the audience with a new film called "The Inhabitants of the Hills". This is a joint project of three countries - USA, Britain and Ireland. In the mini-series based on the novel of the same name by Richard Adams, Ben Kingsley appeared as General Datura.

The Hollywood star's ability to work is amazing, because The Hillside is only one of five 2017 projects. In the same year, Kingsley starred in the films Mountains and Stones, The War Machine, Mary, Mother of Christ and Betrayal for Beginners. The premieres of the films Nomis and A Doll's House have been announced for 2018.

1982 - "Gandhi" 1989 - "The Story of Simon Wiesenthal" 1992 - "Bugsy" 1993 - "Schindler's List" 1997 - "Sweeney Todd" 2000 - "Sexual Beast" 2001 - "Anne Frank" 2003 - "House of Sand and Fog" 2005 - Bloodrain 2009 - Isle of the Damned 2011 - Keeper of Time 2013 - Iron Man 3 2014 - Abode of the Damned 2015 - Here 2016 - The Jungle Book 2017 - Inhabitants of the Hills

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