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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
Osama bin Laden
for Osama bin Laden in The Invicible Iron Man
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After reaching the age of 21, Tony's parents were killed in a car accident. Tony inherited Stark Industries, a unique Mega-Conglomerate that was a major supplier of militaristic equipment and weapons to the US. His 1st project as CEO was to buy out the network of companies and branches of the manufacturer that made his parents' car and was responsible for their death because it produced cars with an obviously defective brake system. He participated in rebuilding the system, thus preventing similar tragedies and saving thousands of lives. He hired Pepper Potts. During the war in North-West Pakistan, Tony Stark was present at a test of a newly developed weapon. On the way back, his convoy was attacked and he himself was wounded by his own mine, which caused several shrapnel near his heart. He is later captured by a local warrior. The terrorists force him to assemble a similar weapon to conquer the entire Far East region. Tony agrees, he doesn't want something like that to fall into their hands, he sabotages the whole project. With the help of Dr. Yinsen, he assembled a mini reactor suit and escapes. At a press conference, he announces that he is giving up weapons. learns that terrorists are attacking Jinsen's village with Jericho missiles, from Stane, flies to Pakistan in a suit and stops them. The success of the operation ended the long-running search for bin Laden, who is responsible for 9/11. Potts gets evidence on Stene. Iron Man and Iron Monger fight and Stane dies.
