Ben Kingsley
- Born: 31 Dec, 1943
Best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of "Gandhi" (1982), British-born Ben Kingsley has made a specialty of playing historical characters ranging from Shostakovich ("Testimony" 1987) to Meyer Lansky ("Bugsy" 1991), his Indian and Russian Jewish roots providing the seemingly incompatible genetic credentials for all three, as well as for other exotic roles (i.e., an Arab prince in "Harem" 1985, a Turk in "Pascali's Island" 1988). Often asked to carry the moral weight of films, he has also excelled in more atypical turns as the smarmy bad guy in "Sneakers" (1992), the physician-torturer of "Death and the Maiden" (1994), the mad scientist of "Species" (1995) and the titular "Demon Barber" of ...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- grandfather : had settled in Zanzibar
- father Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji: of Indian extraction; born in Kenya; while attending college had been nicknamed "Ben"; Kingsley's first name is a tribute to his father
- mother Anna Lyna Mary Bhanji: of English extraction
- son Thomas Kingsley: mother, Angela Morant
- daughter Jasmine Kingsley: mother, Angela Morant
- son Edmund Kingsley: born in July 1982, mother, Alison Sutcliffe; attending RADA as of 2000
- son Ferdinand Kingsley: mother, Alison Sutcliffe
- wife Angela Morant: married in 1966; divorced in 1972; mother of Kingsley's two older children
- wife Alison Sutcliffe: born c. 1946; married on July 1, 1978; separated c. 1992; divorced; worked with her on developing his one-man stage show "Edmund Kean"; mother of Kingsley's two younger sons
- Kate Townsend: living together since 1993
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