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[[File:Sir Ben Kingsley 2012.jpg|thumb|Sir Ben Kingsley]]
British actor, born Krishna Pandit Bhanji on December 31, 1943. With a [[Badass Beard]] and awesome voice, he is best known for his roles as the title character in ''[[Gandhi]]'', Itzhak Stern in ''[[Schindler's List]]'', and to modern audiences as Georges Melies in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[Hugo]]''.

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* ''[[Gandhi]]'', where he plays the man himself, Mahatma Gandhi. His first major role, directed by Richard Attenborough.
* The title character of a movie adaptation of ''[[Silas Marner]]''.
* Itzhak Stern in ''[[Schindler's List]]''. Interestingly, when Gandhi won the Best Picture Oscar, Attenborough wanted [[Steven Spielberg]] to win for ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', and Spielberg would later direct Kingsley in this film.
* [[Big Bad]] Lord Kagan in the first ''[[BloodRayne (film)|Blood Rayne]]'' film. [[Awesome, Dear Boy|He always wanted to play a Vampire Lord.]]
* Don Logan in ''[[Sexy Beast]]'', for which he was nominated for 16 awards, and won 11.
* Nizam in the ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' [[Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time|movie]].
* Massoud Amir Behrani in ''[[House of Sand and Fog]]''.
* Georges Melies in ''[[Hugo]]''.
* An unknown in the Sacha Baron Cohen (Cohen starred in Hugo also) comedy ''The Dictator''.
* [[Retired Badass|Mazer Rackham]] in the film adaptation of ''[[Ender's Game]]''.
* Feste in [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s film of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''
* The Mandarin {{spoiler|(Trevor Slattery)}} in ''[[Iron Man 3]]''.

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