Editing Ben Kingsley (section)

==Early life, ancestry and education ==
Kingsley was born [[Krishna]] [[Pandit]] Bhanji on 31 December 1943, in [[Snainton|Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire]].<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.23178|title=Kingsley, Sir Ben, (born 31 Dec. 1943), actor|journal=[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]]|year=2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Steele |first=Francesca |date=19 April 2014 |title=Ferdinand Kingsley interview: 'Yeah, but mum's dad was totally bald too!' |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/04/the-actor-ferdinand-kingsley-worries-about-going-bald/ |newspaper=[[The Spectator]] |access-date=27 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pg4y9|title=Ben Kingsley |website=Belief |publisher=[[BBC Radio 3]]|access-date=27 April 2018}}</ref> His mother, Anna Lyna Mary (''née'' Goodman) (1914–2010), was an English actress and model, and she later gave birth to a second son called Sadru Bhanji, who later worked as a [[psychiatrist]] in [[Devon]]. She was born out of wedlock and "was loath to speak of her background".<ref>{{cite news |last=Husband |first=Stuart |date=24 April 2013 |title=Sir Ben Kingsley: 'Without a mask, I haven't got a clue' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/10000322/Sir-Ben-Kingsley-Without-a-mask-I-havent-got-a-clue.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/10000322/Sir-Ben-Kingsley-Without-a-mask-I-havent-got-a-clue.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=5 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Pfefferman |first=Naomi |date=18 May 2001 |title=Shoah dramas continue to compel actor Ben Kingsley |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2001/05/18/shoah-dramas-continue-to-compel-actor-ben-kingsley/ |newspaper=[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]] |access-date=5 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Tugend |first=Tom |date=13 April 2001 |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/searchview.php?id=6774 |title=Incidental Intelligence |newspaper=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013135826/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/searchview.php?id=6774 |archive-date=13 October 2007}}</ref> His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji (1914–1968), was born in [[Zanzibar]] (now part of [[Tanzania]]) to a family originating from the Indian city of [[Jamnagar]], of [[Khoja]] [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] descent.<ref name="Bennetts1982">{{cite web |last1=Bennetts |first1=Leslie |title=Ben Kingsley's Journey From Hamlet to Gandhi |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/gandhi-ar4.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=10 April 2022 |date=13 December 1982 |quote=Although born and raised in England, Mr. Kingsley is half Indian: his mother was an English model and his father, a physician, was Indian.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Ben Kingsley's gold turban|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/canzWkOlTVqgNWhfStHsdg|access-date=27 April 2018|website=[[A History of the World in 100 Objects]]|publisher=[[BBC Radio 4]]|quote=...[H]is grandfather (a spice trader) [...] was a prominent member of the Ismaili Koja community in Zanzibar (in the Indian Ocean). Ismaili's are Shi'a Muslims, and followers of the Aga Khan (a descendent of the prophet Muhammad).}}</ref> Kingsley's paternal grandfather, Harji Bhanji, was a successful [[spice trade]]r who had moved from India to the [[Sultanate of Zanzibar]], where Kingsley's father lived until moving to the United Kingdom at the age of 14.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bennetts |first=Leslie |date=13 December 1982 |title=Ben Kingsley's Journey From Hamlet to Gandhi |url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/gandhi-ar4.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=5 June 2018}}</ref><ref>Von Busack, Richard. [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.02.05/kingsley-0509.html ''Sexy Beast.''] Metroactive movies. March 2005.</ref><ref>Pathak, Rujul. [http://www.littleindia.com/news/125/ARTICLE/1399/2005-06-15.html ''Ben Kingsley's Chameleon Characters''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210537/http://www.littleindia.com/news/125/ARTICLE/1399/2005-06-15.html |date=27 September 2007 }}. Little India.com. 15 June 2005.</ref> Kingsley's maternal grandfather was believed by the family to have been of Russian- or German-Jewish descent, while his maternal grandmother was English and worked in the garment district of [[East End of London|London's East End]].<ref name="highbeamref1">{{cite news |last=Krieger |first=Hilary Leila |date=10 April 2005 |title='Gandhi' brings his 'truth-force' to Palestinian audiences |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-107274645.html |newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105185957/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-107274645.html |archive-date=5 November 2012 |url-access=subscription}}: "The grandmother of the knighted Royal Shakespeare Company alum spoke Yiddish she picked up while a garment worker in London's East End a century ago. "She was violently opposed to talking about this, so my poor mother was at the receiving end of a rage attack every time my grandmother was asked about her husband, her lover, whoever it was, but it's believed that he was a Russian Jew or a German Jew called Goodman", Kingsley told ''The Jerusalem Post''".</ref> Kingsley stated in 1994, "I'm not Jewish, and though there might be some Russian-Jewish heritage way back on my mother's side, the thread is so fine there's no real evidence."<ref>{{cite news|last=Pollack|first=Joe|title=He's No Stranger to Holocaust|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|date=3 January 1994|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZHcxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qHsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6244,2477398|access-date=28 November 2011|quote="I'm not Jewish," he said, "and though there might be some Russian-Jewish heritage way back on my mother's side, the thread is so fine there's no real evidence..."}}</ref> In a 2016 interview, he indicated that his maternal grandmother was impregnated by a Russian-Jewish immigrant who later abandoned her, which led her to become a "vile anti-Semite."<ref name=":0" />

Kingsley grew up in [[Pendlebury|Pendlebury, Lancashire]]. Although his father was a [[Gujarat]]i Khoja who practised [[Isma'ilism|Isma'ili Shia Islam]], Kingsley was not raised in his father's faith, and identifies as a [[Quakers|Quaker]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-32381926|title=The faith forgotten in its hometown|last=Wade|first=Dave|date=25 April 2015|access-date=23 January 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-06-19/sir-ben-kingsleys-identity-is-as-colourful-as-his-characters/|title=Sir Ben Kingsley's identity is as colourful as his characters|website=Radio Times|access-date=23 January 2019}}</ref> He was educated at the [[Manchester Grammar School]], where one of his classmates was actor [[Robert Powell]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Walsh |first=John |date=6 March 2010 |title=Sir Ben Kingsley: 'I was blessed by being a very popular child |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sir-ben-kingsley-i-was-blessed-by-being-a-very-popular-child-1915503.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=7 March 2010}}</ref> Kingsley went on to study at [[Pendleton College|De La Salle College]] in [[City of Salford|Salford]], which later became home to The Ben Kingsley Theatre. While at college, he became involved in amateur dramatics in [[Manchester]], making his professional stage debut on graduation, aged 23.