Ian McKellen
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.
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Known for
Family Guy
Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)
The Simpsons
Ian McKellen (voice)
Coronation Street
Mel Hutchwright
Sesame Street
Himself
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
BBC Play of the Month
Captain Plume
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self
Omnibus
Self - Reading Poetry
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Extras
Ian McKellen
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Gandalf
Beauty and the Beast
Cogsworth
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Gandalf
The Oscars
Self
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Gandalf the Grey
ted
Narrator (voice)
Vicious
Freddie Thornhill
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gandalf
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Gandalf the Grey
Tales of the City
Archibald Anson Gidde
Playhouse
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Speaker
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Gandalf the Grey
David Copperfield
Creakle
Playing Shakespeare
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Magneto
The Prisoner
2 / Curtis
Perspectives
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
Avengers: Doomsday
Magneto
The Da Vinci Code
Sir Leigh Teabing
Armchair Thriller
Anthony Skipling
Flushed Away
The Toad (voice)
Pillar of Fire
Narrator
The Golden Compass
Iorek Byrnison (voice)
Stardust
Narrator (voice)
Last Action Hero
Death
Billy & Dom Eat the World
Himself
Churchill
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Shadow
Dr. Reinhardt Lane
Country Matters
David Masterman
The Good Liar
Roy Courtnay
Mr. Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Windmills of the Gods
Chairman
Great British Theatre
Apt Pupil
Kurt Dussander
Cats
Gus, the Theatre Cat
Six Degrees of Separation
Geoffrey
Scandal
John Profumo
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Self - 'Magneto'
The Critic
Jimmy Erskine
Animal Crackers
Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
The Keep
Dr. Theodore Cuza
Restoration
Will Gates
The Wolverine
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
The Magic Roundabout
Zebedee (voice)
Gods and Monsters
James Whale
Richard III
Richard III
And the Band Played On
Bill Kraus
Cold Comfort Farm
Amos Starkadder
Bent
Uncle Freddie
Neverwas
Gabriel Finch
Asylum
Dr. Peter Cleave
All Is True
Earl of Southampton
Doctor Who: The Snowmen
The Great Intelligence (voice)
Plenty
Sir Andrew Charleson
The Dresser
Norman
Hamlet
Hamlet
Doogal
Zebedee (voice)
King Lear
King Lear
Infinitum: Subject Unknown
Dr. Charles Marland-White
I'll Do Anything
John Earl McAlpine
The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin
Self
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Self
Muse of Fire
Self
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Chauvelin
The Ballad of Little Jo
Percy Corcoran
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'
Self
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
Rasputin
Tsar Nicholas II
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Making of the Return of the King
Self
Jack & Sarah
William
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
Self
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Self
The Making of The Two Towers
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
Lord of the Piercing
Gandalf the Grey (archive footage)
A Touch of Love
George
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
Self
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
Narrator (voice)
Walter and June
Walter
On Broadway
Self
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Self
Dragfox
Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)
Quest for the Ring
Self
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Self
Priest of Love
D.H. Lawrence
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
Self
Macbeth
Macbeth
Alfred the Great
Roger
A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
Narrator (voice)
Swept from the Sea
Dr. James Kennedy
Othello
Iago
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
X-Men
Magneto
The Tragedy of King Richard II
King Richard II
X2
Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
Self
Countdown to War
Adolf Hitler
Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen
The Life and Death of Lily Savage
Self
Hating Peter Tatchell
Self
Émile
Emile
After Stonewall
Self
X-Men: The Last Stand
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
Saint of 9/11
Narrator
The Paul O'Grady Story
Self
National Theatre Live: King Lear
King Lear
Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
Narrator (voice)
To Die For
Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!
Self
Walter
Walter
For the Love of God
The Jackdaw
McKellen: Playing the Part
Himself
The Christophers
Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!
Self
Hamlet Within
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Dragged Through Time
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Alexander Ivanov
Quintessentially British
Self
Eighteen
Jason Anders (voice)
The Art of Breaking Character
Self
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
Spooner
Camp Christmas
Theatreland
Himself
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Self
An Evening with Lily Savage
Self
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
Miss in Her Teens
The Prologue
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Wolf
The Hobart Shakespeareans
Himself
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Schadenfreude
Continuity Announcer
Play the Devil: Making Richard III
The Betty Driver Story
Self
Scarfe's Follies
The View
Self - Guest
Hamlet
Hamlet
Edmund the Magnificent
Self - Narrator (voice)
Freedom: 50 Years of Pride
Self
David Macaulay: Roman City
Augustus Caesar (voice)
The One Note Man
Narrator (voice)
Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet
The Promise
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Self
How a Kite Flies
Mr. Kite (voice)
Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
Narration (voice)
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
The Roof
And Even Yet Another Fan
Zina
Kronfeld
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
A Bit Of Scarlet
Narrator
Lady Grey London
Shakespeare on Film
The Egg Trick
Magician
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
Edward II
King Edward
Gladio
Aldo Moro (voice)
Hedda Gabler
George Tesman
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU
Looking for Lowry
Himself
Süleyman the Magnificent
Narrator
Small-Time Revolutionary
Hamish Miller (voice)
Richard II
Richard II
Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?
The One Show
Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
Have I Got News for You
Self
London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
No Man's Land
Spooner
Graceless Go I
Tony
The Paul O'Grady Show
Surviving Friendly Fire
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
An Audience with...
Self
Parkinson
Self
Reunited Apart
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self