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Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and received the Britannia Award in 2013. Born to an English mother and an Indian Gujarati father with roots in Jamnagar, Kingsley began his career in theatre, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and spending the next 15 years appearing mainly on stage. His starring roles included productions of As You Like It (his West End debut for the company at the Aldwych Theatre in 1967), Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Also known for his television roles, he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989), Joseph (1995), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), and Mrs. Harris (2006). In film, Kingsley is known for his starring role as Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), for which he subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For his portrayal of Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. He was Oscar-nominated for Bugsy (1990), Sexy Beast (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). His other notable films include Maurice (1987), Sneakers (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Death and the Maiden (1994), Twelfth Night (1996), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Elegy (2008), Shutter Island (2010), and Hugo (2011). Kingsley played the character of Trevor Slattery in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Iron Man 3 (2013), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the upcoming Disney+ series Wonder Man. He also acted in the blockbusters Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) and Ender's Game (2013). Kingsley lent his voice to the films The Boxtrolls (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016).
Sir Ben Kingsley
Hugo Strange
for Hugo Strange in Batman: Season 1 Episode 2
Suggested by underworld_stories
When the sewers of Gotham start being inhabited by a killer man and crocodile Jim Gordon sends officer Patty Spivot and officer Johnathan Crane into the sewers to check it out leading to the death of officer Spivot. Meanwhile Bruce Wayne is being visited by Tommy Elliot his childhood friend about working together on a project involving Wayne Tech and Elliot Industries. After dinner Bruce sends Elliot off and goes back in to see on the news that officer Patty Spivot has been horribly murdered by a huge crocodile in the sewers. Bruce puts on his suit, puts on his belt, tells Alfred bye, and heads out to go investigate. While in the sewers Bruce notices a lot of chemicals and broken glass in the water and eventually finds a door that is being blocked by the giant crocodile. Bruce tries to sneak past but the crocodile wakes up and attacks Bruce. He manages to evade the attacks and stun the crocodile long enough to get through the door. Bruce finds a large flight of stairs which he finds leads to a lab where he finds documents and papers about genetic mutation and animal experimentation. Just then someone comes in and Bruce hides behind the bookshelf. He sees Hugo Strange the psychiatric specialist at the Belle Reve prison. Bruce manages to escape only to have to fight the crocodile again. He gets behind it and sticks a flash grenade to its back and runs. The episode ends with Bruce in his room on the computer looking into Hugo Strange.
