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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), and Irving Thalberg in the film Mank (2020).

Ferdinand Kingsley
Born	Ferdinand James M. Kingsley (1988-02-13) 13 February 1988 (age 34) Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
Education	Warwick School Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2007–present
Parents	Ben Kingsley (father) Alison Sutcliffe (mother)

Early life

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. His paternal grandfather, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji (1914–1968), was a Kenyan-born medical doctor from the Indian city of Jamnagar, being of Khoja Gujarati descent.[1][2][3][4] His great-grandfather was an extremely successful spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar, where his grandfather lived until moving to England at the age of 14.[5][6][7] Kingsley's paternal grandmother was English; she was born out of wedlock, and "would loath to speak of her background".[8][9] His other great-grandfather was believed by the family to have been of either German-Jewish or Russian-Jewish descent, while his great-grandmother was English and worked in the garment district of East London.[10][11]

Kingsley attended Warwick School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[12]

Acting career

Kingsley's theatre credits include Troilus and Cressida, and Little Eyolf for the Royal Shakespeare Company.[12][13] 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.[12][13]

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.[14] He took the part of Albert Aurier in the BBC production Vincent Van Gogh: Painted With Words.[12][13][15] He plays Bushy in Richard II, which is part of the BBC's Shakespeare season to be aired in Summer 2012.[13][16]

He played both Jesus and God the Father in the August 2012 production of the York Mystery Plays.[13][17] 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.[18] In Spring 2013, Kingsley starred in the short film Dance in Colour by The Crookes. In 2016, Kingsley starred in ITV's drama Victoria as Italian British cook Charles Elmé Francatelli.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Last Legion	Young Ambrosinus
2014	Dracula Untold	Hamza Bey
2020	Mank	Irving Thalberg

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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" "1507"
2016–2019	Victoria	Charles Elmé Francatelli
2017	Still Star-Crossed	Aldo Lazzara	Episodes: "Pluck Out the Heart of My Mystery" "Nature Hath Framed Strange Fellows in Her Time" "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"

References

External links

• Ferdinand Kingsley at IMDb
• Agent's Website
• Ferdinand Kingsley on Twitter

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