Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley as Ambassador Mourain, who is under siege in his jurisdictional country of Yemen in Paramount's Rules Of Engagement - 2000

Biography

Born 12/31/1943

Exuding an air of gravitas in whatever role he played, Academy-Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley made a specialty of playing historical characters, ranging from Dmitri Shostakovich in "Testimony (1987) to mobster Meyer Lansky in "Bugsy" (1991). His most acclaimed performance, however, was in Sir...
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Filmography

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Awards

  • In 2002, received Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • In 2002, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
  • In 2001, received Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Highlights

  • In 2008, Co-starred with Famke Janssen and Josh Peck in "The Wackness"
  • In 2008, Co-starred opposite Penélope Cruz in "Elegy"
  • In 2007, Played an alcoholic hit man in the dark comedy "You Kill Me"
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Family & Companions

  • Kate Townsend: living together since 1993
  • Alexandra Christmann: wife (German; married in October 2003; separated in 2005, after 15 months of marriage, after pictures of her kissing another lover surfaced on the internet; they divorced in 2006)
  • Daniela Barbosa De Carneiro: wife (Brazilian; 31 years his junior; married Sept. 3, 2007 in Oxfordshire, England)
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