Ben Kingsley

Krishna Pandit Bhanji, known professionally as Sir Ben Kingsley or just Ben Kingsley, is an English actor with a career spanning over five decades. He is best known for his role as Mohandas Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's epic historical drama film Gandhi (in which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor), and has also starred in Barry Levinson's 1991 biographical crime film Bugsy, Steven Spielberg's 1993 epic historical drama film Schindler's List, the 2000 crime film Sexy Beast, the 2003 psychological drama film House of Sand and Fog, Martin Scorsese's 2010 psychological thriller film Shutter Island, and the 2011 adventure drama film Hugo. His performances in Bugsy and Sexy Beast garnered nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, while his lead role in House of Sand and Fog received a nomination for Best Actor. He is also well-known for voicing Drago in the 2003 fantasy adventure prequel film Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse and Archibald Snatcher, the main antagonist of the 2014 stop-motion fantasy comedy film The Boxtrolls.

For Disney, he portrayed The Man in the Yellow Suit in Tuck Everlasting and Nizam in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. He also played Trevor Slattery in the 2013 Marvel film Iron Man 3, and reprised this role in the 2014 short film Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King, the 2021 film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and the 2024 Disney+ series Wonder Man. Additionally, he voiced Bagheera in Jon Favreau's 2016 live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book and portrayed Otto Frank in the Touchstone Television war drama miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story. He will reprise his role as Bagheera in the upcoming live-action sequel The Jungle Book 2.