Ben Kingsley's Top 5 Roles
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Click through to see Ben Kingsley's top 5 roles. (Eric Charbonneau/Invision/AP)
5. "Iron Man 3" (2013):
Kingsley helped turn the Marvel universe all topsy-turvy with his portrayal of classic Marvel villain The Mandarin, the enigmatic leader of an international terrorist organization known as the Ten Rings who's later revealed to be nothing but a figurehead portrayed by a bumbling British actor named Trevor Slattery. Kingsley got to reprise the role in the short film, "Marvel One Shot: All Hail the King," which is included on the Blu-ray release of "Thor: The Dark World" (2013). (Marvel)
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4. "House of Sand and Fog" (2003):
Kingsley scored his fourth Oscar nomination with his performance as Massoud Amir Behrani, a former Iranian army officer and husband/father who buys a San Francisco house at a quarter of its value but ends up in a bitter property war with its former owner, a recovering drug addict (Jennifer Connelly). Kingsley is heartbreaking (as is the rest of the cast) in this adaptation of Andre Dubus III's acclaimed novel. (Everett)
3. "Schindler's List" (1993):
Kingsley earned his second Oscar nomination for his quietly intense portrayal of Itzhak Stern, a Jewish official who's hired as an accountant by industrialist and Nazi sympathizer Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) in the the Kraków Ghetto during WWII. Stern ends up being Schindler's unofficial partner and confidante as the disillusioned German proceeds to save the lives of more than 1,100 mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware factories. (Everett)
2. "Sexy Beast" (2000):
This is the same guy who played Mahatma Gandhi? Kingsley earned his third Oscar nomination and scared the hell out of everyone both on- and off-screen with his fierce and darkly hilarious portrayal of Don Logan, a sociopathic (and probably psychopathic) British gangster who's sent to a Spanish villa to convince a retired colleague (Ray Winstone) to come back to London for one final score. (Everett)
1. "Gandhi" (1982):
Kingsley's most iconic role remains Mohandas K. Gandhi, later re-named the honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled," "venerable"), the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India via nonviolent civil disobedience ... and the inspiration for countless civil rights movements all over the world. Richard Attenborough's epic film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won eight, including Kingsley's first Oscar win
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Click through to see Ben Kingsley's top 5 roles. (Eric Charbonneau/Invision/AP)
Click through to see Ben Kingsley's top 5 roles.
