Ben Kingsley is an English actor. Ben Kingsley has won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. Ben Kingsley is known for starring as Mohandas in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Ben Kingsley is the son of Anna Lyna Mary, an actress and model, and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor. He grew up in Pendlebury, near Salford.

Ben Kingsley was educated at Manchester Grammar School, an independent school in Manchester in north-west England. He later studied at the University of Salford and at Pendleton College, which later became home to the Ben Kingsley Theatre.