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  Inside the Actors Studio: Ben Kingsley's Bio is Available Online - Official Bravo TV Site
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943.
Though Ben Kingsley had a few television and film roles throughout the 1970's, it wasn't until 1982 that he became known to the world.
Kingsley won every award he was nominated for that year, including the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
www.bravotv.com /Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guests/Ben_Kingsley.shtml   (213 words)

  
  Ben Kingsley - MSN Encarta
Ben Kingsley, born in 1943, British actor, renowned for his sensitive, intelligent performances on stage and in motion pictures.
Kingsley's other theater work includes notable performances in Hello and Goodbye (1973) at the King's Head Theatre in London; Mosca in Volpone, by British dramatist Ben Jonson, at London's National Theatre (1976); and the premiere of Betrayal (1982) by British dramatist Harold Pinter.
Kingsley made his motion-picture debut with a supporting role in the thriller Fear is the Key (1972).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761582187/Kingsley_Ben.html   (263 words)

  
 Celebrity Astrology - Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley made his film debut in 1972 when he accepted a part in Fear Is the Key, but he had already been acting in theaters -- and writing and performing music -- for several years.
Kingsley was born with the Sun in practical, steady-handed Capricorn, and the Moon in ethereal Pisces.
Kingsley was also born with communicative Mercury in sturdy Capricorn, responsible for his 'just the facts, ma'am' attitude, both on and off the screen.
astrozine.astrology.com /benkingsley.html   (436 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley "Sexy Beast" Interview, published by Mike Freni
Ben Kingsley’s first appearance in the dark comedy/thriller Sexy Beast, has him enveloped in a character we rarely see him play, a profane, violent, psychopath, who hardly bears any similarity to Mahatma Gandhi, or the equally gentle characters he played in the likes of Schindler’s List and Dave.
In the case of Kingsley and Sexy Beast, he had little time to prepare, as he was involved shooting other films, and had to arrive on set already immersed in the character.
I’m producing and actively developing films, it’s a wonderful time for me.” Kingsley is a self-confessed workaholic, and continues to be driven by a childhood which forbade him to articulate his own desires.
www.dealmemo.com /Interview/KingsleyBen.htm   (840 words)

  
 Celebrity Astrology - Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley made his film debut in 1972 when he accepted a part in Fear Is the Key, but he had already been acting in theaters -- and writing and performing music -- for several years.
Kingsley was born with the Sun in practical, steady-handed Capricorn, and the Moon in ethereal Pisces.
Kingsley was also born with communicative Mercury in sturdy Capricorn, responsible for his 'just the facts, ma'am' attitude, both on and off the screen.
celebrity.astrology.com /benkingsley.html   (438 words)

  
  Ben Kingsley Information
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning English actor.
Kingsley was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and grew up in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester.
Kingsley has also commented that his desire to use his title stems from his pride at overcoming a troubled childhood plagued by racism, "I think it's a reflection of how an uncomfortable childhood can lead to high achievement".
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ben_Kingsley   (565 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley - Trikiwiki
Ben did not follow a traditional way of trainning to be an actor.He first was working as a laboratory technician at ICI.
Ben Kingsley is the father of four children and resides in Oxfordshire and Berlin with his wife, Alexandra, and his step-daughter.
Ben Kingsley at Godesktop.Com Ben Kingsley wallpaper and screensaver.
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 Ben Kingsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the latter half of the 1990s, Kingsley continued to embrace a variety of eclectic roles, with turns as the Fool in the 1996 film adaptation of Twelfth Night, and the barbarous barber in The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998).
Kingsley also took Broadway by storm with his one-man show Edward Kean, which was directed by his wife Alison Sutcliffe.
Kingsley has four children: two with his first wife, Angela Morant (1966 to 1972) and two with his second wife, Alison Sutcliffe (1978 to 1992).
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=4258   (320 words)

  
 Britannia Panorama: British Literature & Authors Online
Ben Kingsley, among the most respected and talented actors of the cinema today, is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-winning role in "Gandhi".
Kingsley's acceptance into the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1967 was the foundation for a career that is as impressive in the theatre - if perhaps less visible - as it is on film.
Kingsley lost masses of weight, read 23 volumes of Gandhi's collected works and described the experience as similar to "having a layer of skin peeled off my eyeballs but one of the most joyful events I've ever been party to".
www.britannia.com /panorama/kngsly.html   (1257 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Ben Kingsley Biography
Kingsley then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing mainly on the stage for the next 15 years.
The British director Richard Attenborough chose Kingsley in 1982 to appear in the epic biopic, 'Gandhi'.
Unwilling to be typecast, Kingsley took parts in films as varied as 'Harem', 'Turtle Diary', and 'Pascali’s Island'.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/508:0/Ben_Kingsley.htm   (346 words)

  
 Sir Ben Kingsley Biography - Biography.com
Raised in Salford, England, as the son of a Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a Kenyan-born physician of Indian extraction and Anna Lyna Mary Bhanji, an English-born fashion model, Kingsley began acting as a teenager.
Kingsley first appeared on the big screen in the Alistair MacLean thriller Fear is the Key (1972), and made his television debut that same year in the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) series The Love School.
From 1975 to 1977, Kingsley worked with the National Theatre; he subsequently returned to the RSC, where he originated the role of Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby.
www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9365267   (400 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley Biography
Kingsley would remain at the Aldwych as Sintsov in Gorky's Enemies, with Stewart and Mirren, then tour the UK with the Italian workers' rights play Occupations in which he was Gramsci.
Kingsley's brilliant performance as he squirms, whines and cajoles, trying to convince her wavering husband that she's wrong, has us wondering as the film follows its tense and challenging path.
She does this by pretending she wants to study under Kingsley, an occult scholar complete with the prerequisite robes and star-marked skull-cap, and she also turns on the sexual heat, which at least allows Kingsley to act a little as he moves from arid academia though deep suspicion to an emotional awakening.
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/ben_kingsley_biog.html   (7774 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley - HBO Films: Mrs. Harris
Ben Kingsley: I would say that this film is the autopsy of a relationship.
Ben Kingsley: Phyllis wrote this screenplay I think to reflect Mrs.
Ben Kingsley: Well we certainly mentioned the autopsy of a relationship, and we certainly mentioned how they got into that room.
www.hbo.com /films/mrsharris/interviews/kingsley.html   (1066 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley, tous les films avec Ben Kingsley
Avec : Liam Neeson, Andrzej Seweryn, Embeth Davidtz, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Avec : Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Leanne Rowe
Avec : Carrie-Anne Moss, Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Harry J. Lennix
www.locafilm.com /acteur/2046/ben-kingsley.html   (474 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley Photos - Ben Kingsley News - Ben Kingsley Information
Ben has said his character of Don Logan in the film Sexy Beast is largely based on his grandmother.
Ben has frequently stated his disdain for his grandmother calling her an "extremely violent and unpleasant woman".
Ben's mother, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a physician.
www.tv.com /person/63692/summary.html   (528 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley Celebrity Encounter and In Person Autograph
Sir Ben Kingsley was in town filming "Suspect Zero" and this was such a great chance to meet an acting great.
This was timed quite well and we managed to meet up with Ben and his snuggling girlfriend (or wife) before they got to their ride.
Earl asked Ben for an autograph and he said "sure." When Earl gave him his photo he immediately said oh this is from "Rules of Engagement" and when Sterling handed him his photo, Ben told us it was from "Anna Frank".
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 RP Online
Oft aber unterstützt der Charakterdarsteller Kingsley mit seinem eher zurückhaltenden Spiel die Stars: etwa in der Rolle des Gangsters Meyer Lansky in Barry Levinsons "Bugsy" (1991) mit Warren Beatty in der Titelrolle; als Vize-Präsident in Ivan Reitmans "Dave" (1993), wo Kevin Kline den US-Präsidenten spielt und als gewissenhafter jüdischer Buchhalter in "Schindlers Liste" (1993).
In Roman Polanskis "Der Tod und das Mädchen" (1994) ist er der geheimnisvolle Fremde, der von einer jungen Frau Sigourney Weaver, die in ihm einen ehemaligen Folterer zu erkennen glaubt, verhört und gequält wird.
Kingsley ist hier der Prototyp des anständigen Menschen, des ruhigen, zurückhaltenden, klugen Humanisten, wirkt aber gleichermaßen auch verschlossen, undurchschaubar.
www.rp-online.de /app/tv/prisma/index.php/person.html?pid=ben_kingsley   (412 words)

  
 Kingsley Sir Ben - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kingsley Sir Ben - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Kingsley, Sir Ben (1943- ), British actor born Krishna Bhanji in Scarborough, Yorkshire to Kenyan-Asian parents.
Amis, Sir Kingsley (1922-1995), English novelist, whose works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period...
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 Ben Kingsley: Gandhi - Movie
All of these characteristics are brought to the screen wonderfully by Ben Kingsley, who was born to play this part.
Amazingly enough, this is Ben's first major role, and to put it lightly, he nailed it.
Ben Kingsley (in his first major role) is nothing short of spectacular in the part of the Mahatma, slowly evolving his philosophy of non-violent non-cooperation with evil over decades, and bringing this incredible moral power to bear not only against the British, but against those Hindus and Muslims who would see India riven into two.
www.superiorpics.com /ben_kingsley/movie/1982_gandhi.html   (1872 words)

  
 Interview - Ben Kingsley for "Oliver Twist"
In real life, Kingsley is an intellectual, urbane and a thinker, the polar opposite of his unrecognizable Fagin in Polanski's Oliver Twist a character he says he borrowed from his own reality, as he revealed to Garth Franklin.
Kingsley: I speculated on his history, invented a history for him that seemed to me to have a symmetry with Oliver, and I could empathise with it as an actor.
Kingsley: For me, because I've seen him over the years and, been with him over the years - just the occasional dinner, the occasional lunch and the occasional social meeting - and more recently I was at Deauxville with him and he was Chairman of the Jury.
www.darkhorizons.com /news05/oliver1.php   (1370 words)

  
 One Oscar not enough for Sir Ben Kingsley / 'Sexy Beast' actor feels the pressure again
His 1983 best-actor Oscar for "Ghandi" was lovely, but it hardly satisfied Sir Ben Kingsley, who's vying this year for best supporting actor for his work in "Sexy Beast."
Kingsley offers allusions recreational, mythological and off the wall, never breaking his intense gaze.
The recently knighted Kingsley, 58, is still a student of film acting.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/17/PK1177.DTL&type=printable   (359 words)

  
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Ben Kingsley, best known for his role as the pacifist Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, is to guest star in a series famed for its portrayal of mob violence rather than peaceful resistance.
Ben Kingsley is an outstanding actor, and portraying Gandhi is his most outstanding work.
Ben Kingsley was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.
lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/ben-kingsley.html   (429 words)

  
 An in-depth look at your favourite celebrity personalities - hellomagazine.com, HELLO!
Born Krishna Bhanji in Snaiton, northern England, in 1943, the boy who would become Ben Kingsley was raised in Salford by his physician father Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji and his fashion model mother Anna Lyna Mary.
Three years later Ben was nominated Best Supporting Actor for Bugsy and in 1993 gave a scene-stealing performance in Steven Spielberg's magnum opus Schindler's List.
Ben lives with his partner Kate Townsend and has three sons by his two previous marriages.
www.hellomagazine.com /profiles/benkingsley   (734 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Sir Ben's Sexy honour
He adopted the name Ben Kingsley after his father said he would only make it in cinema if he had an English name.
Sir Ben started work as a laboratory technician, doing amateur dramatics in his spare time, and later turned down the chance of pop stardom when Beatles manager Brian Epstein offered him a recording contract after seeing him in a musical.
Sir Ben stuck with acting, joining the Coronation Street cast in 1966, where he played Ron Jenkins, who was involved with Ken Barlow's first wife Val.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/1734960.stm   (537 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley News - Topix
Ben Kingsley News continually updated by readers like you.
Apparently what really set off the Cinematic scribes was that the actor was listed as "Sir Ben Kingsley" in the opening credits for the small-scale B-picture, "Lucky Number Slevin." "If he can't even loosen up...
Sir Ben Kingsley and the 34-year-old Brazilian bombshell
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 Interview - Sir Ben Kingsley
She answered that I could call him "Ben," or "Sir Ben," or "Sir Ben Kingsley"; but she added that I should not call him "Sir Kingsley" as the title is never used with the last name alone.
She plays his wife in the film and it was obvious that he wanted her to be able to meet and talk with the press.
She included a note which said that her husband had had Kingsley in mind when he wrote the character of Behrani.
www.jackiekcooper.com /MovieReviews/InterviewSirBenKingsley.htm   (492 words)

  
 Ben Kingsley - The Huffington Post
They were told that if they left, they were dead." One of the most haunting stories in the film, narrated by actor Ben Kingsley, is that of the Chens whose only son, five-year-old Chen Jie, disappeared after helping his grandmother on her vegetable...
Abraham appears to be doing a mild variation on Ben Kingsley’s attention-getting portrait of a sadistic crime boss in the movie “Sexy Beast.” He’s appropriately slimy, and I liked the...
Actors Ben Kingsley, left, and Bipasha Basu stop on the red carpet for photographers while on the way to the New Seven Wonders of the World official declaration ceremony Saturday, July 7 2007 at Luz stadium in Lisbon, Portugal.
www.huffingtonpost.com /people/Ben+Kingsley   (977 words)

  
 AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Ben Kingsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
BEN KINGSLEY (Behrani) is one of the industry's most respected film, television and stage actors.
Kingsley's portrayal of the martyred leader of India's independence brought him an Academy Award®; for Best Actor, as well as two BAFTA Awards for Best Actor and Best Newcomer, and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor and New Star of the Year.
Kingsley later received Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations for his work in Bugsy (1991),and he also won a London Evening Standard Award and earned a BAFTA Award nomination for his role in Steven Spielberg's Oscar®-winning holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993).
www.amctv.com /person/detail?CID=18399-1-EST   (368 words)

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