Ian McKellen [1327]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 3.0673
Birthplace: Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: 1939-05-25
Age: 86 years
Movies: 151
Links: Homepage, IMDB
Biography: 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.

Avengers: Doomsd
2026-12-18
A World War II F
2025-09-10
Dragged Through
2025-07-26
Ken Dodd: A Lega
2025-03-23
Dragfox
2024-08-31
The Real Ken Dod
2024-06-09
The Life and Dea
2024-03-29
Hamlet
2024-02-27
The Critic
2024-09-13
The One Note Man
2023-08-08
Quintessentially
2022-10-27
Freedom: 50 Year
2022-07-02
Hamlet Within
2022-05-21
Hating Peter Tat
2021-11-01
Infinitum: Subje
2021-03-03
Ian McKellen on
2020-06-11
Du Fu: China's G
2020-04-05
Cats
2019-12-19
The Good Liar
2019-11-08
On Broadway
2019-10-12
All Is True
2018-12-21
McKellen: Playin
2018-05-25
The Paul O'Grady
2017-06-23
Animal Crackers
2017-06-23
How a Kite Flies
2017-04-28
The Untold Tales
2017-03-11
Edmund the Magni
2017-03-01
Beauty and the B
2017-03-16
Judi Dench: All
2016-12-30
Shakespeare on S
2016-05-31
Shakespeare on F
2016-05-31
Play the Devil:
2016-05-31
All the World's
2016-04-24
Shakespeare Live
2016-04-23
The Roof
2016-03-31
Knights of Class
2015-11-01
The Dresser
2015-10-31
Mr. Holmes
2015-06-19
The Hobbit: The
2014-12-10
Nelson Mandela R
2014-07-18
X-Men: Days of F
2014-05-15
Miss in Her Teen
2014-04-15
The Wolverine: P
2013-12-03
The Hobbit: The
2013-12-11
The Five(ish) Do
2013-11-23
Muse of Fire
2013-09-26
The Wolverine
2013-07-21
The Egg Trick
2013-06-21
Doctor Who: The
2012-12-25
The Hobbit: An U
2012-12-12
Looking for Lowr
2011-04-24
The Betty Driver
2011-02-01
Lady Grey London
2010-12-08
Small-Time Revol
2010-07-22
A Lost and Found
2010-06-25
Theatreland
2009-01-01
King Lear
2008-08-06
The Golden Compa
2007-12-04
Stardust
2007-08-10
The Art of Break
2007-03-26
For the Love of
2007-02-28
Flushed Away
2006-10-22
X-Men: The Last
2006-05-24
The Da Vinci Cod
2006-05-17
Saint of 9/11
2006-04-27
Doogal
2006-02-24
Asylum
2005-09-09
Neverwas
2005-09-09
The Hobart Shake
2005-09-06
Ringers: Lord of
2005-01-21
Eighteen
2005-01-01
A Filmmaker's Jo
2004-12-14
The Magic Rounda
2004-10-24
Frodo Is Great..
2004-07-23
The Making of th
2004-04-01
Peter Tatchell:
2004-03-27
The Quest Fulfil
2003-12-26
Beyond the Movie
2003-12-12
The Lord of the
2003-12-17
The Second Uncan
2003-11-25
X2
2003-04-27
The Making of Th
2003-04-01
Evolution X - Th
2003-02-11
Film Collectible
2003-01-01
Émile
2003-01-01
The Lord of the
2002-12-18
Beyond the Movie
2001-12-23
The Lord of the
2001-12-18
A Passage to Mid
2001-12-09
Quest for the Ri
2001-11-29
Larry & Vivien:
2001-09-13
Now You See Him:
2000-08-29
X-Men
2000-07-13
X-Men: The Mutan
2000-07-02
Cirque du Soleil
2000-05-05
The World of God
1999-06-08
After Stonewall
1999-06-06
Apt Pupil
1998-10-23
Gods and Monster
1998-09-12
Bent
1997-11-26
Swept from the S
1998-01-23
Surviving Friend
1997-06-21
A Bit Of Scarlet
1997-06-20
An Evening with
1996-11-11
Rasputin
1996-03-23
Restoration
1995-12-29
Richard III
1995-12-29
Jack & Sarah
1995-06-02
Cold Comfort Far
1995-01-01
To Die For
1994-12-02
Stonewall 25: Gl
1994-09-23
The Shadow
1994-07-01
David Macaulay:
1994-02-15
I'll Do Anything
1994-02-04
Camp Christmas
1993-12-24
Six Degrees of S
1993-12-08
And the Band Pla
1993-09-11
The Ballad of Li
1993-08-20
Last Action Hero
1993-06-18
Armistead Maupin
1993-06-23
Gladio
1992-07-10
Othello
1990-06-23
Countdown to War
1989-04-07
Scandal
1989-03-03
Scarfe's Follies
1988-01-28
Süleyman the Ma
1987-01-01
Zina
1985-11-01
Plenty
1985-09-20
The Keep
1983-12-16
Walter and June
1983-04-30
The Scarlet Pimp
1982-11-09
Walter
1982-11-02
Ian McKellen: Ac
1982-04-25
Priest of Love
1981-10-11
Dying Day
1980-02-12
Every Good Boy D
1979-11-14
Macbeth
1979-02-02
Graceless Go I
1974-10-08
Hedda Gabler
1972-10-20
Hamlet
1970-11-07
Edward II
1970-08-06
The Tragedy of K
1970-07-30
The Promise
1969-12-01
Alfred the Great
1969-10-08
A Touch of Love
1969-09-01
The Trial and To
1965-11-10
No Man's Land
The Christophers
Untitled Anthony
Schadenfreude
Richard II