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, 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 25 May 1939) is an English actor. With a career spanning more than sixty years, he is noted for his 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 he 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 went on to receive 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, 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), 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.
Known For
Actor
as Richard II
as Continuity Announcer
as Scrooge (rumored)
as Self
as Self - Interviewed Guest
as Jimmy Erskine
as Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking)
as Hamlet
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Dr. Charles Marland-White
as Self
as Gus, the Theatre Cat
as Roy Courtnay
as Self
as Earl of Southampton
as King Lear
as Himself
as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
as Self
as Mr. Kite (voice)
as Cogsworth
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Spooner
as Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
as Self - Performer
as And Even Yet Another Fan
as Self (archive footage)
as Norman
as Sherlock Holmes
as Gandalf the Grey
as Self
as Magneto
as The Prologue
as Self
as Self - Speaker
as Self
as Gandalf the Grey
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
as Magician
as Freddie Thornhill
as The Great Intelligence (voice)
as Gandalf the Grey
as Himself
as Self
as Hamish Miller (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Himself
as 2 / Curtis
as Self - Guest
as King Lear
as Iorek Byrnison (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as The Jackdaw
as Self - Guest
as Self
as The Toad (voice)
as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
as Sir Leigh Teabing
as Narrator
as Zebedee (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Gabriel Finch
as Dr. Peter Cleave
as Himself
as Zebedee (voice)
as Self
as Jason Anders (voice)
as Ian McKellen
as Voice of the Snowman
as Self
as Self
as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
as Emile
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Gandalf
as Gandalf the Grey (archive footage)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Magneto
as Self - 'Magneto'
as Narrator (voice)
as Creakle
as Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)
as Kurt Dussander
as James Whale
as Dr. James Kennedy
as Self
as Uncle Freddie
as Narrator
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Tsar Nicholas II
as Richard III
as Will Gates
as William
as Amos Starkadder
as Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
as Dr. Reinhardt Lane
as Augustus Caesar (voice)
as John Earl McAlpine
as Self
as Geoffrey
as Bill Kraus
as Percy Corcoran
as Narration (voice)
as Death
as Archibald Anson Gidde
as Aldo Moro (voice)
as Iago
as Self
as Adolf Hitler
as John Profumo
as Ian McKellen (voice)
as Chairman
as Kronfeld
as Sir Andrew Charleson
as Dr. Theodore Cuza
as Walter
as Chauvelin
as Walter
as D.H. Lawrence
as Narrator
as Alexander Ivanov
as Macbeth
as Anthony Skipling
as Self
as Self - Host
as George Tesman
as David Masterman
as Hamlet
as King Edward
as King Richard II
as Roger
as George
as Himself
as David Copperfield
as Captain Plume
as Mel Hutchwright
as Self
Producer
as Associate Producer
as Executive Producer
Writer
as Screenplay