Oscar Winner Ben Kingsley is in High Demand in Hollywood

Ben Kingsley Has Several Films in the Works

Sir Ben Kingsley plays "The Mandarin" in this summer's "Iron Man 3."

With multiple film roles lined up, the outlook for Ben Kingsley, one of the stars in this summer’s blockbuster “Iron Man Three,” appears very bright. It seems that the Oscar winner has become a highly sought-after commodity. Kingsley plays “the Mandarin,” opposite of Robert Downey Junior In “Iron Man 3.” Thirty years ago, Kingsley won the Academy Award for Best Male Actor at the 1983 Academy Awards, winning the award as a relatively unknown thespian for his memorable performance in the Academy Award-winning film “Gandhi,” which took home the trophy for “Best Picture.” Critics have called Kingsley’s depiction Mohandas Gandhi in the film one of the strongest depictions of a real person in the history of cinema.

Over the years, Kingsley, a British-born actor, has starred or costarred in a number of distinguished films, and he has worked with a number of highly respected actors, actresses and directors. After sharing the screen in “Gandhi” with a young Daniel Day-Lewis and Martin Sheen, Kingsley had a co-starring role in the 1993 award-winning film “Schindler’s List,” starring alongside Liam Neeson. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg. Kingsley worked with Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis in the 2006 film “Lucky Number Slevin.” Kingsley also appears in the 2010 Martin Scorsese directed film “Shutter Island.”

Ben Kingsley Working on Numerous Movies and a TV Program

According to Internet Movie Database, Kingsley will appear in six movies this year, plus another four next year. The actor, who hosts a television program distributed on public TV stations called “Outlook with Ben Kingsley,” appeared earlier this year in “A Birder’s Guide to Everything” and has another four movies set for release later this year. Next year, look for Sir Ben Kingsley in “The Boxtrolls,” “Our Robot Overlords” and “Mary Mother of Christ,” in which Kingsley will play King Herod.

Kingsley’s Outlook show, which runs on some TV stations affiliated with PBS, reviews interesting stories across American society.