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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).
Ben Kingsley
Alfred Pennyworth
for Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: Under The Red Hood
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After a few months of grieving of the death of Superman; Bruce Wayne returns to crime fighting as the Caped Crusader Batman after Jim Gordon reveals information of a new mob gang spreading through the streets in Gotham lead by Roman Sionis. Sionis and his men have been hijacking Gotham’s illegal drug trade to sell them off illegally. It is the job of Batman and the GYPD to stop the load of drugs from getting into Sionis’s hands. Batman arrives at Gotham Harbour in time before the load of drugs can enter the surface. While defeating Sionis’s henchmen Batman is faced with a guy in a Red helmet and brown leather jacket that he names the ‘Red Hood’. Batman and the Red Hood encounter with the latter on top. Red Hood and Black Mask escapes with the drugs as Batman retrieves to the Batcave. Bruce and Alfred begin researching the Red Hood’s every moment; which each moving looking similar to the training Bruce received at the League of Assassins. Bruce goes off to Arkham Asylum to meet with Ra’s daughter and Bruce’s former lover Talia. Talia reveals that the man behind the mask is Batman’s adoptive son Jason Todd. Jason was initially killed by the Joker however Talia and her father brought him back to the League of Assassins to resurrect him. Ra’s decided to take him in and train him to become stronger and more skilled than before, perhaps more skilled than his former mentor Bruce. Jason filled with anger and hatred vanished from the League in order to find the Joker and kill him.
