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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
Malthazar Reptilia (Voice)
for Malthazar Reptilia (Voice) in The Monster Squad
Suggested by nikobatman
Two years have passed since the Monster Squad secretly saved the world from a demented project of survivors of the Third Reich, who wanted to exploit the resources of a real lost world to avenge their defeat. However, peace is only a very short-lived thing in this job. The world is threatened again, by another Nazi survivor on the run, but this time who don't seem to be the biggest threat in sight. The Monster Squad, made up of a few new members, begins their mission this time in Saint Petersburg, in order to extradite the mythical Russian necromancer Rasputin, who seems to have collaborated with their enemies. They will discover realize that survivors of the Third Reich are posing as a research team gone to the depths of Antarctica, in order to drill for new matter. However, once there, the monsters will realize that the Nazis have, for once, come across something much more dangerous than them, having found a passage towards the center of the Earth, which turns out to be hollow and where a vast lost empire lies. Thinking at first that the real threat comes from the mysterious reptilians, the worst is yet to come. The Nazis have dug too deep and with too much greed, awakening mythical giants, who want to return to the surface to conquer it ! No man could stop such mythological beings, but perhaps monsters would have their chance...
