Tom Hulce

Other films include Dominick and Eugene, Parenthood, Those Lips, Those Eyes, Echo Park and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Slamdance. He is married to Alexandra Christmann from Berlin and lives in Spelsbury, England. Murray Abraham. He has also appeared frequently on television, his first role having been a bit part in Coronation Street. In 1984 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance of Mozart in Amadeus, losing to his Amadeus co-star, F. Watson opposite Michael Caine's Sherlock Holmes), Bugsy (Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor), Sneakers, Dave, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Schindler's List, Death and the Maiden, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, Sexy Beast (another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), and House of Sand and Fog (Oscar nomination for Best Actor). His next was in the highly popular National Lampoon's Animal House. Kingsley has been able to avoid stereotyping by being cast in a variety of roles in such films as Turtle Diary, Maurice, Pascali's Island, Without a Clue (as Dr.

His first film role was in the James Dean influenced film 9/30/55 in 1977. Although born Hindu, his father later converted to Sikhism. Within a month of moving to New York City, he became the understudy for Peter Firth in the Broadway production of Equus. He was nominated for a Tony Award for A Few Good Men. His father's ancestors had come from the Indian states of Punjab and Gujarat, the same as Gandhi himself. He wanted to be a singer as a small child, but switched to acting when his voice changed. His first film, Fear is the Key in 1972, was not a success, but he later found fame in the starring role of Mahatma Gandhi in the Academy Award winning Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Born in Whitewater, Wisconsin, he was raised in Plymouth, Michigan. Kingsley began his acting career on the stage, but moved to movies early.

Thomas Edward Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an American actor. His father, Rahimtulla Pandit Bhanji, was a Kenya-born doctor of Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary Bhanji, a fashion model and actress. Ben Kingsley was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji on December 31, 1943) is an English actor of Indian (Gujarati) and Russian-Jewish descent.