But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.
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When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
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Birth: | 31st December, 1943 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Actor |
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE is an English actor who has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. Kingsley grew up in Pendlebury, near Manchester. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, where one of his classmates was the actor Robert Powell. He later studied at the University of Salford and at Pendleton College, which later became home to the Ben Kingsley Theatre. He found fame only years later, starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi in 1982, his best-known role to date. In 1984, he won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Recording for The Words of Gandhi. He was awarded the Indian civilian honour Padma Shri in 1984. In May 2010, Kingsley was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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