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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
Narrator
for Narrator in THE MADELINE MOVIE
Suggested by demurelyhydrated
"In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived 12 little girls in two straight lines. They left the house at half past 9:00 in two straight lines, in rain or shine. And the smallest one was Madeline." Based on the children's book series by Ludwig Bemelheims. This movie could be animated and by Illumination Studios. This movie could show when Madeline first came to the home for little girls. Even though she's smaller than all the other girls, this 9-year-old troublemaker is not afraid of anything. Not mice. And to the tiger in the zoo, Madeline just said, "Pooh-pooh!" When Madeline is submitted into the hospital with appendicitis, the other girls find their life is not the same without her, even though they felt like they deserved a break from her pranks. Meanwhile, Miss Clavel, the nun in charge of the girls, finds out the truth about Madeline's heritage. Apparently, Madeline's lost parents are famous aristocrats. While she's still in the hospital waiting for her scar to heal, Madeline overhears Miss Clavel and the doctor talking about her family's missing fortune. After checking out, Madeline asks the other girls, and Pepito (the obnoxious son of the Spanish ambassador) to join her on an adventure to find "treasure" and find out what happened to her parents.
