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Fourth time lucky in love for Sir Ben?

Will it be a case of practice makes perfect for Sir Ben Kingsley as he prepares to make luscious actress Daniela Barbosa his fourth wife?

The 63-year-old Gandhi star is ready to have another tilt at married life after recovering from the humiliation of finding internet pictures of wife number three Alexandra Christmann embracing another man in Berlin.

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Fourth time lucky?: Sir Ben Kingsley, 63, with his actress fiancee Daniela Barbosa, 32

Fourth time lucky?: Sir Ben Kingsley, 63, with his actress fiancee Daniela Barbosa, 32

Three months after his divorce from German aristocrat Alexandra last year, he unveiled 32-year-old Daniela on the red carpet at a Hollywood premiere.

Miss Barbosa - who at 5ft 9in is an inch taller than the diminutive actor - has assumed the fragrant stage name Daniela Lavender.

Career highlights include an episode of Casualty, playing a maid in Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G Indahouse and appearing in a £6,000 British movie called Emotional Backgammon.

It was described by one critic as 'an awful misfire'.

Says a delighted Ben, who plays an alcoholic hitman in his latest flick: "I'm very happy. 'Marriage is going to happen, but I don't know when. I call her my fiancée because she is."

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