
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

Avengers: Doomsday

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Beauty and the Beast

The Da Vinci Code

Flushed Away

Last Action Hero

The Golden Compass

Stardust

Mr. Holmes

Ebenezer

The Good Liar

The Christophers

The Shadow

Animal Crackers

Cats

I'll Do Anything

Six Degrees of Separation

Richard III

Apt Pupil

And the Band Played On

Gods and Monsters

The Wolverine

The Keep

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

The Dresser

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

The Critic

The Magic Roundabout

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

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

Restoration

Asylum

All Is True

Swept from the Sea

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

Scandal

Ringers: Lord of the Fans

Evolution X - The Making of X-Men

X-Men: The Mutant Watch

Muse of Fire

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Neverwas

The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin

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

Late Show with David Letterman

Family Guy

Saturday Night Live

The View

Coronation Street

Sesame Street

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Graham Norton Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

The South Bank Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

American Playhouse

The One Show

Golden Globe Awards

Have I Got News for You

Tony Awards

BBC Play of the Month

The Talk

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

The Wednesday Play

ted

Playhouse

Omnibus

The Oscars

An Audience with...

Parkinson

ITV Playhouse

The Paul O'Grady Show

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Who Do You Think You Are?

TFI Friday

Parkinson

Extras

HARDtalk

Reunited Apart

Trailblazer Honors

Perspectives

Tales of the City

David Copperfield

Vicious

Country Matters

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

The Prisoner

Amol Rajan Interviews

Playing Shakespeare

Inside the Actors Studio

Windmills of the Gods

Pillar of Fire

Billy & Dom Eat the World

Churchill

Great British Theatre
More Movies

A Touch of Love

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

King Lear

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

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2

X-Men: Premieres Around the World

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King

Doogal

Bent

Quest for the Ring

Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Gladio

McKellen: Playing the Part

Jack & Sarah

The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale

The Ballad of Little Jo

Thin Ice

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

Infinitum: Subject Unknown

Macbeth

The Roof

Plenty

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast

Rasputin

The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script

National Theatre Live: King Lear

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

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

The Life and Death of Lily Savage

Dragfox

Brett Ratner's X-Diaries

The Paul O'Grady Story

Cold Comfort Farm

The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth

Emile

David Macaulay: Roman City

Alfred the Great

The Betty Driver Story

Saint of 9/11

On Broadway

After Stonewall

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

Schadenfreude

Priest of Love

Zina

National Theatre Live: No Man's Land

Hating Peter Tatchell

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

Miss in Her Teens

The Tragedy of King Richard II

Hamlet

An Evening with Lily Savage

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

The One Note Man

A Simple Matter of Justice

Frank and Percy

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

Freedom: 50 Years of Pride

Eighteen

LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes

Othello

Theatreland

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

Double Take: Xavier & Magneto

Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love

Countdown to War

Hamlet Within

Walter

Camp Christmas

A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation

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

To Die For

How a Kite Flies

Walter and June

Scarfe's Follies

Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare

X-Men

Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony

Edmund the Magnificent

A Bit Of Scarlet

Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?

X-Men: The Last Stand

Tea with Judi Dench featuring Ian McKellen

All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film

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

Edward II

Quintessentially British

Looking for Lowry

The Egg Trick

Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU

Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up

Age of Dissent

X2

Süleyman the Magnificent

Small-Time Revolutionary

The Hobart Shakespeareans

Hamlet

Surviving Friendly Fire

Guerrilla Distribution




