
Ian McKellen
Born May 25, 1939 · Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has played roles on the screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Emmy Awards. McKellen made his stage debut in 1961 at the Belgrade Theatre as a member of its repertory company, and in 1965 made his first West End appearance. In 1969, he was invited to join the Prospect Theatre Company to play the lead parts in Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II. In the 1970s, McKellen became a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain. He has earned five Olivier Awards for his roles in Pillars of the Community (1977), The Alchemist (1978), Bent (1979), Wild Honey (1984), and Richard III (1995). McKellen made his Broadway debut in The Promise (1965). He received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1980). He was further nominated for Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare (1984). He returned to Broadway in Wild Honey(1986), Dance of Death (1990), No Man's Land (2013), and Waiting for Godot (2013), the latter two being a joint production with Patrick Stewart. McKellen achieved worldwide fame for his film roles, including the titular King in Richard III (1995), James Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998), Magneto in the X-Men films, Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies. Other notable film roles include A Touch of Love (1969), Plenty (1985), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Restoration (1995), Flushed Away (2006), Mr. Holmes (2015), and The Good Liar (2019). McKellen came out as gay in 1988, and has since championed LGBT social movements worldwide. He was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in October 2014. McKellen is a cofounder of Stonewall, an LGBT rights lobby group in the United Kingdom, named after the Stonewall riots. He is also patron of LGBT History Month, Pride London, Oxford Pride, GayGlos, LGBT Foundation and FFLAG. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McKellen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Avengers: Doomsday

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

X-Men: Days of Future Past

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Beauty and the Beast

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Da Vinci Code

Flushed Away

The Golden Compass

Last Action Hero

Stardust

Mr. Holmes

The Good Liar

Ebenezer

The Christophers

Cats

The Shadow

Gods and Monsters

The Wolverine

Six Degrees of Separation

The Dresser

Apt Pupil

Animal Crackers

The Keep

The Critic

Asylum

And the Band Played On

All Is True

I'll Do Anything

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

Scandal

Gladio

The Magic Roundabout

Richard III

Hating Peter Tatchell

Restoration

Bent

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

Neverwas

Infinitum: Subject Unknown

Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

Swept from the Sea

Muse of Fire

The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin

Dragfox

The Ballad of Little Jo

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
TV Shows

Family Guy

Sesame Street

The View

Late Show with David Letterman

Saturday Night Live

Coronation Street

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Real Time with Bill Maher

Golden Globe Awards

The One Show

Have I Got News for You

The Talk

Tony Awards

BBC Play of the Month

American Playhouse

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

ted

The Oscars

Omnibus

Parkinson

The Wednesday Play

Playhouse

ITV Playhouse

An Audience with...

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

The Paul O'Grady Show

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Who Do You Think You Are?

HARDtalk

TFI Friday

Extras

Reunited Apart

Parkinson

Trailblazer Honors

Perspectives

Tales of the City

Vicious

The Prisoner

David Copperfield

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Country Matters

Playing Shakespeare

Inside the Actors Studio

Amol Rajan Interviews

Windmills of the Gods

Billy & Dom Eat the World

Pillar of Fire

Churchill

Great British Theatre
More Movies

King Lear

Doogal

Jack & Sarah

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

X-Men: The Mutant Watch

Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

A Touch of Love

Evolution X - The Making of X-Men

Quest for the Ring

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Thin Ice

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2

X-Men: Premieres Around the World

Zina

Ringers: Lord of the Fans

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'

Alfred the Great

Emile

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

Macbeth

McKellen: Playing the Part

After Stonewall

Plenty

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script

David Macaulay: Roman City

National Theatre Live: King Lear

Hamlet

Rasputin

A Simple Matter of Justice

The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale

On Broadway

The Life and Death of Lily Savage

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast

Cold Comfort Farm

The Betty Driver Story

Priest of Love

Eighteen

Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!

Schadenfreude

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

An Evening with Lily Savage

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

Brett Ratner's X-Diaries

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

The Roof

Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love

Theatreland

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

National Theatre Live: No Man's Land

Camp Christmas

The Tragedy of King Richard II

The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth

The One Note Man

Freedom: 50 Years of Pride

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

Miss in Her Teens

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On..

The Paul O'Grady Story

X-Men

Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!

The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale

Frank and Percy

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

Edward II

LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes

The Egg Trick

Scarfe's Follies

To Die For

X-Men: The Last Stand

How a Kite Flies

Walter and June

Saint of 9/11

Edmund the Magnificent

Double Take: Xavier & Magneto

Age of Dissent

Countdown to War

Othello

Walter

A Bit Of Scarlet

Hamlet

A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation

X2

Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare

Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up

All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film

London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony

Quintessentially British

The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design

Small-Time Revolutionary

The Hobart Shakespeareans

Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?

Looking for Lowry

Tea with Judi Dench featuring Ian McKellen

Hamlet Within

Guerrilla Distribution

Surviving Friendly Fire

My First Time

Süleyman the Magnificent




