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Born Krishna Bhanji in Snaiton,
northern England, in 1943, the boy who would become Ben Kingsley was raised
in Salford by his physician father Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji and his fashion
model mother Anna Lyna Mary. After being turned down by the prestigious
London acting school RADA in 1965, Ben spent two years plying his trade in
the English provinces before returning to London in 1967 on being invited to
join the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Over the next two decades, he
would go on to perform at both the Royal Court and the National Theatre.
Despite his glittering stage career, however, Ben's passage into films was a
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