Ferdinand James M Kingsley was born on 13 February 1988 and is a British actor.
12 Facts About Ferdinand Kingsley
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Ferdinand Kingsley is known for portraying the roles of Hamza Bey in the film Dracula Untold, Mr Francatelli in the television series Victoria, Irving Thalberg in the film Mank, and Hob Gadling in Netflix's adaptation of The Sandman.
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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.
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Ferdinand Kingsley is of predominantly English descent; his paternal grandfather was of Khoja Gujarati descent and one of his great-grandfathers was believed by the family to have been of either German-Jewish or Russian-Jewish descent.
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Ferdinand Kingsley took the part of Albert Aurier in the BBC production Vincent Van Gogh: Painted With Words.
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Ferdinand Kingsley plays Bushy in Richard II, which is part of the BBC's The Hollow Crown series of Shakespeare's history plays aired in Summer 2012.
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Ferdinand Kingsley played both Jesus and God the Father in the August 2012 production of the York Mystery Plays.
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In 2013, Ferdinand 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.
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In Spring 2013, Ferdinand Kingsley starred in the short film Dance in Colour by The Crookes.
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From 2016 to 2019, Ferdinand Kingsley starred in ITV's drama Victoria as Italian British cook Charles Elme Francatelli.
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In 2022, Ferdinand Kingsley featured in the Netflix series The Sandman as Hob Gadling in episode 6, "The Sound of Her Wings".
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In 2023, Ferdinand Kingsley portrayed George Wilkins in the series Silo on Apple TV+, and the mysterious villain AM in Reacher on Amazon Prime Video.