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Ferdinand James M. Kingsley (born 13 February 1988) is a British actor. He is known for portraying the roles of Hamza Bey in the film Dracula Untold (2014), Mr. Francatelli in the television series Victoria (2016–2019), Irving Thalberg in the film Mank (2020), and Hob Gadling in Netflix's adaptation of The Sandman (2022). In 2023, he played the mysterious villain A.M. in Reacher on Amazon Prime Video.
Early life
[edit]Ferdinand James M. Kingsley was born on 13 February 1988 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the son of actor Ben Kingsley and theatre director Alison Sutcliffe. He is of predominantly English descent; his paternal grandfather was of Khoja Gujarati descent[1][2][3] and one of his great-grandfathers was believed by the family to have been of either German-Jewish or Russian-Jewish descent.[4][5]
Kingsley attended the RSC theatre nursery, Warwick School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[6]
Acting career
[edit]Kingsley's theatre credits include Troilus and Cressida, and Little Eyolf for the Royal Shakespeare Company.[6][7] He played Rosencrantz in the National Theatre's 2010–11 production of Hamlet, for which he received a commendation at the 2010 Ian Charleson Awards, and Phaeax in Welcome to Thebes.[6][7]
In the film The Last Legion he played Young Ambrosinus in flashbacks to the younger days of the character Ambrosinus, played by his father Ben Kingsley.[8] He took the part of Albert Aurier in the BBC production Vincent Van Gogh: Painted With Words.[6][7][9] He plays Bushy in Richard II, which is part of the BBC's The Hollow Crown series of Shakespeare's history plays aired in Summer 2012.[7][10]
He played both Jesus and God the Father in the August 2012 production of the York Mystery Plays.[7][11] In 2013, Kingsley played the part of murdered Jewish anarchist Joshua Bloom in the BBC period crime drama Ripper Street, and filmed prominent roles in Agatha Christie's Poirot: Elephants Can Remember, the BBC feature film The Whale as Obed Hendricks, and Universal Pictures' 2014 feature Dracula Untold as Hamza Bey.[12] In Spring 2013, Kingsley starred in the short film Dance in Colour by The Crookes. From 2016 to 2019, Kingsley starred in ITV's drama Victoria as Italian British cook Charles Elmé Francatelli. In 2020, he played Irving Thalberg in the film Mank (2020). In 2022, Kingsley featured in the Netflix series The Sandman as Hob Gadling in episode 6, "The Sound of Her Wings".
In 2023, Kingsley portrayed George Wilkins in the series Silo on Apple TV+,[13] and the mysterious villain A.M. in Reacher (season 2) on Amazon Prime Video.[14]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2007 | The Last Legion | Young Ambrosinus | |
2014 | Dracula Untold | Hamza Bey | |
2020 | Mank | Irving Thalberg |
Television
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2010 | Painted with Words | Albert Aurier | TV movie |
2012 | The Hollow Crown | Sir John Bushy | Episode: "Richard II" |
2013 | Ripper Street | Joshua Bloom | Episode: "Tournament of Shadows" |
Agatha Christie's Poirot | Desmond Burton-Cox | Episode: "Elephants Can Remember" | |
The Whale | Obed Hendricks | TV movie | |
2014 | Borgia | Giulio d'Este | Episodes: "1503, Part One","1503, Part Two", "1504","1506" and "1507" |
2016–2019 | Victoria | Charles Elmé Francatelli | Main cast |
2017 | Still Star-Crossed | Aldo Lazzara | Episodes: "Pluck Out the Heart of My Mystery", "Nature Hath Framed Strange Fellows in Her Time" and "Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here" |
Doctor Who | Neville Catchlove | Episode: "Empress of Mars" | |
2022 | The Sandman | Hob Gadling | Episode: "The Sound of Her Wings" |
2023 | Silo | George Wilkins | Episodes: "Freedom Day", "Holston's Pick" and "The Relic" |
2023–2024 | Reacher | A. M. | Main cast |
Stage
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2024 | The Comeuppance[15] | Paco | Almeida Theatre, London |
References
[edit]- ^ Bennetts, Leslie (13 December 1982). "Ben Kingsley's Journey From Hamlet to Gandhi". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
Although born and raised in England, Mr. Kingsley is half Indian: his mother was an English model and his father, a physician, was Indian.
- ^ Husband, Stuart (24 April 2013). "Sir Ben Kingsley: 'Without a mask, I haven't got a clue'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "BBC – A History of the World – Object : Sir Ben Kingsley's gold turban". Bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
...[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).
- ^ Krieger, Hilary Leila (10 April 2005). "'Gandhi' brings his 'truth-force' to Palestinian audiences". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2007.: "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".
- ^ Pollack, Joe (3 January 1994). "He's No Stranger to Holocaust". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
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...
- ^ a b c d "National Theatre". Archived from the original on 29 April 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Meet God — and Jesus Christ". The Press. York. 24 May 2012. Archived from the original on 15 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Film4oD – the Last Legion". Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ "Painted with Words". Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ "Cast confirmed for BBC Two's cycle of Shakespeare films". BBC Media Centre. 24 November 2011. Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Actor to play both God and Jesus". BBC News Online. 24 May 2012. Archived from the original on 15 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Ferdinand Kingsley". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ Fremont, Maggie (30 June 2023). "Let's Get to the Bottom of That Silo Finale". Vulture. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ Petski, Denise (21 September 2022). "Reacher Rounds Out Season 2 Cast With Serinda Swan, Ferdinand Kingsley, Rory Cochrane, More". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ "The Comeuppance". Almeida Theatre. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
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