Profile
Famous as :
ActorBirth Name :
Krishna BhanjiBirth Date :
December 31, 1943Birth Place :
Scarborough, Yorkshire, U.K.Spouse :
Angela Morant (actress, 1996 - 1972), Alison Sutcliffe (theatrical director, 1-Jul-78 - 1992), Alexandra Christmann (3-Oct-03 - 2005), Daniela Barbosa de Carneiro (actress, since 3-Sep-07)Claim to fame :
As Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi "Bapu" in "Gandhi" (1982)
Biography
Krishna Bhanji was born on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire to a Kenya-born doctor of Indian descent named Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji and an English-born fashion model and actress of Jewish-European extraction, Anna Lyna Mary Bhanji. Krishna, as he soon known as an English actor of Indian-Gujarati and Russian-Jewish descent, derived his stage name Ben Kingsley, from his Zanzibar spice trader grandfather's nickname, Clove King.
Filmography
2009 : Queen of the South
2009 : Shutter Island
2009 : Will (2009/II)
2009 : Gambit
2008 : Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008 : The Wackness
2008 : Number Thirteen
2008 : War, Inc.
2009 : Shutter Island
2009 : Will (2009/II)
2009 : Gambit
2008 : Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008 : The Wackness
2008 : Number Thirteen
2008 : War, Inc.
