Ben Kingsley's Birth Card: The Joker

In the record

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. The birth-card coordinate for December 31 is the Joker — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1983 Best Actor — Gandhi win.

Academy Award record

• 1983 Best Actor — Gandhi

The Joker coordinate

Ben Kingsley's birthday maps to the Joker (The Joker: The December 31 Birth Card). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Ben Kingsley. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: In a common year, 364 dates map to one of the 52 cards and December 31 resolves to the Joker. A leap year adds February 29, which maps normally to the 9 of Clubs. We state both edge cases plainly — the system is more useful when the public explanation matches the calculator.

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Ben Kingsley in the public record

He has received various accolades throughout his career spanning seven decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and received the Britannia Award in 2014. Born to an English mother and an Indian Gujarati father with roots in Jamnagar, Kingsley began his career in theatre, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and spending the next 15 years appearing mainly on stage. His starring roles included productions of As You Like It (his West End debut for the company at the Aldwych Theatre in 1967), Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Also known for his television roles, he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989), Joseph (1995), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), and Mrs. Harris (2006). In film, Kingsley is principally known for his starring role as Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Also on the record

1. For his portrayal of Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination.
2. He was Oscar-nominated for Bugsy (1990), Sexy Beast (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003).
3. His other notable films include Maurice (1987), Sneakers (1992), Dave (1993), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Death and the Maiden (1994), Twelfth Night (1996), A.I.
4. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Elegy (2008), Shutter Island (2010), and Hugo (2011).

Other winners with this card

• Anthony Hopkins — 1992 Best Actor — The Silence of the Lambs; 2021 Best Actor — The Father

FAQ

What is Ben Kingsley's birth card?

The Joker. December 31 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Ben Kingsley's dates come from?

Birth date 1943-12-31 is the day-precision date on Ben Kingsley's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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