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The many Middle Eastern faces of Ben Kingsley.
Thu, Nov 12 2009 12:01 PM
In his long and storied career, Sir Ben Kingsley has played Lenin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Simon Wiesenthal, Meyer Lansky, Moses and Sweeney Todd. Thanks to his half-Indian background, he's also frequently been a go-to generic Middle Easterner: one of his first parts was as a Pakistani cab-driver in Mike Leigh's 1973 TV movie "Hard Labour," Mohandas... Read More...