Jasmin Bhanji is an English artist and educator based in London, UK. People who do not know her as an artist know her as the daughter of one of the greatest English actors, Ben Kingsley. Her mother Angela Morant was married to Ben Kingsley in the mid 60s and had to divorce after six years for unknown reasons. During her parents’ marriage she only had one sibling, Thomas Alexis Bhanji.
Education and Career
Although not much about her personal life is not known, Jasmin Bhanji’s education information is out there and she seems to have done so well in terms of education and has also managed to maintain education practice.
Jasmin undertook The Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University College London in 2001.
She moved to Nairobi, Kenya in 2012 where she worked as an art teacher in an international school. In Nairobi, she had set up her studio garden where she’d do her art.
After her time in Nairobi, she went back to London to complete a Masters in Art and Design in Education.
She has since set her studio inside a school in Islington where she explores the limits of her art.
In her art practice she conducts research in art education which, according to her, “explores the relationship between practical and theoretical modes of inquiry through performance, enactment and embodied learning. She is curious about the absences and omitted stories in the archives of art history”.
Family
Jasmin’s father is Ben Kingsley and her mother is Angela Morant. She has siblings including Thomas Alexis Bhanji and Step siblings Edmund Kingsley and Ferdinand Kingsley.
Jasmin’s father Kingsley Bhanji (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji) is a well known english actor who has been in the industry for more than five decades. Through his career he has won awards including Grammy Awards. His most popular role is arguably the role of Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film Gandhi.
When it comes to the question of Jasmin’s own family, it is not yet known. There is no public information about her dating life, marriage or even children.
Jasmin Bhanji’s Net Worth
Jasmin has had a career as an educator and an artist. It is incontestable that she has made some fortune for herself. However, even if that’s the case, her net worth or anything to do with her finances have not been published. Jasmin seems to enjoy a modest life immersing herself in the art which she dearly cherishes.
The case is different however, when it comes to his father. Being a movie legend who has been in the limelight for decades, Ben Kingsley has made fortune for himself and all information can be found everywhere on the internet. His net worth is estimated at $60 million.
Bottling it up
Jasmin Bhanji is an artist and an educator who sometimes appears in interviews to talk about her art and studio. She does not provide so much information about her private life.