Ian McKellen

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1939-05-25 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK

Also Known As Иэн МакКеллен, Sir Ian McKellen, 伊恩·麦克莱恩, Sir Ian Murray McKellen, Σερ Ίαν Μάρεϊ ΜακΚέλεν, Ίαν ΜακΚέλεν, Ίαν Μάρεϊ ΜακΚέλεν, Ian McKellern, 이안 맥켈런, イアン・マッケラン, 伊恩·麦凯伦, 伊恩·麥克連, Єн Маккеллен

Ian McKellen

Biography

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born May 25, 1939) is an English actor. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received two Academy Award nominations, eight BAFTA film and TV nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. McKellen's work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His notable film roles include Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and Magneto in the X-Men films.

Known For

Actor

Richard II

as Richard II

Schadenfreude

as Continuity Announcer

Marley

as Scrooge (rumored)

Amol Rajan Interviews

as Self - Interviewed Guest

2024
The Critic

as Jimmy Erskine

2024
Dragfox

as Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking)

2024
Hamlet

as Hamlet

2024
ted

as Narrator (voice)

2023
The One Note Man

as Narrator (voice)

2021
Infinitum: Subject Unknown

as Dr. Charles Marland-White

2020
2019
Cats

as Gus, the Theatre Cat

2019
The Good Liar

as Roy Courtnay

2019
On Broadway

as Self

2018
All Is True

as Earl of Southampton

2017
Animal Crackers

as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)

2017
2017
How a Kite Flies

as Mr. Kite (voice)

2017
2017
Edmund the Magnificent

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2016
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film

as Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)

2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

as Self - Performer

2016
The Roof

as And Even Yet Another Fan

2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2015
The Dresser

as Norman

2015
Mr. Holmes

as Sherlock Holmes

2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past

as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

2014
Miss in Her Teens

as The Prologue

2014
Trailblazer Honors

as Self - Speaker

2013
2013
Muse of Fire

as Self

2013
The Wolverine

as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)

2013
The Egg Trick

as Magician

2013
Vicious

as Freddie Thornhill

2012
Doctor Who: The Snowmen

as The Great Intelligence (voice)

2012
2011
2010
Small-Time Revolutionary

as Hamish Miller (voice)

2010
2009
Theatreland

as Himself

2009
The Prisoner

as 2 / Curtis

2008
King Lear

as King Lear

2007
The Golden Compass

as Iorek Byrnison (voice)

2007
Stardust

as Narrator (voice)

2007
For the Love of God

as The Jackdaw

2007
The Graham Norton Show

as Self - Guest

2006
Flushed Away

as The Toad (voice)

2006
X-Men: The Last Stand

as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

2006
The Da Vinci Code

as Sir Leigh Teabing

2006
Saint of 9/11

as Narrator

2006
Doogal

as Zebedee (voice)

2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

2005
Neverwas

as Gabriel Finch

2005
Asylum

as Dr. Peter Cleave

2005
The Magic Roundabout

as Zebedee (voice)

2005
Eighteen

as Jason Anders (voice)

2005
Extras

as Ian McKellen

2005
Doctor Who

as Voice of the Snowman

2003
X2

as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

2003
Émile

as Emile

2003
Churchill

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2001
2001
2000
X-Men

as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

2000
X-Men: The Mutant Watch

as Self - 'Magneto'

2000
1999
1999
Family Guy

as Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)

1998
Apt Pupil

as Kurt Dussander

1998
Gods and Monsters

as James Whale

1998
Swept from the Sea

as Dr. James Kennedy

1997
Bent

as Uncle Freddie

1997
A Bit Of Scarlet

as Narrator

1997
The View

as Self - Guest

1996
Rasputin

as Tsar Nicholas II

1995
Richard III

as Richard III

1995
Restoration

as Will Gates

1995
Jack & Sarah

as William

1995
Cold Comfort Farm

as Amos Starkadder

1994
To Die For

as Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)

1994
The Shadow

as Dr. Reinhardt Lane

1994
David Macaulay: Roman City

as Augustus Caesar (voice)

1994
I'll Do Anything

as John Earl McAlpine

1993
1993
The Ballad of Little Jo

as Percy Corcoran

1993
1993
1993
Tales of the City

as Archibald Anson Gidde

1992
Gladio

as Aldo Moro (voice)

1990
Othello

as Iago

1989
Countdown to War

as Adolf Hitler

1989
Scandal

as John Profumo

1989
The Simpsons

as Ian McKellen (voice)

1988
1985
Zina

as Kronfeld

1985
Plenty

as Sir Andrew Charleson

1983
The Keep

as Dr. Theodore Cuza

1983
Walter and June

as Walter

1982
1982
Walter

as Walter

1981
Priest of Love

as D.H. Lawrence

1981
Pillar of Fire

as Narrator

1979
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

as Alexander Ivanov

1979
Macbeth

as Macbeth

1978
Armchair Thriller

as Anthony Skipling

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1972
Hedda Gabler

as George Tesman

1972
Country Matters

as David Masterman

1970
Hamlet

as Hamlet

1970
Edward II

as King Edward

1970
1969
1969
A Touch of Love

as George

1969
Sesame Street

as Himself

1966
David Copperfield

as David Copperfield

1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Captain Plume

1960
Coronation Street

as Mel Hutchwright

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Producer

2019
The Isle

as Associate Producer

1995
Richard III

as Executive Producer

Writer

1995
Richard III

as Screenplay