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
Self
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Gandalf the Grey
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Gandalf
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Gandalf
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Gandalf the Grey
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gandalf
Avengers: Doomsday
Magneto
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Magneto
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Gandalf the Grey
Beauty and the Beast
Cogsworth
The Da Vinci Code
Sir Leigh Teabing
Playhouse
Alexander
ted
Narrator (voice)
BBC Play of the Month
Captain Plume
BBC Play of the Month
Simon Bliss
BBC Play of the Month
Ross / T.E. Lawrence
BBC Play of the Month
George Tesman
Omnibus
Self - Reading Poetry
Flushed Away
The Toad (voice)
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
Self
Last Action Hero
Death
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self
The Oscars
Self
The Golden Compass
Iorek Byrnison (voice)
Extras
Ian McKellen
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
Spooner
Stardust
Narrator (voice)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Chauvelin
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Himself (archive footage)
Macbeth
Macbeth
The Ballad of Little Jo
Percy Corcoran
The Magic Roundabout
Zebedee (voice)
Small-Time Revolutionary
Hamish Miller (voice)
The Shadow
Dr. Reinhardt Lane
Mr. Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
National Theatre Live: King Lear
King Lear
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Self
Apt Pupil
Kurt Dussander
Hamlet
Hamlet
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Self
The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin
Self
Scandal
John Profumo
Countdown to War
Adolf Hitler
A Bit Of Scarlet
Narrator
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Self
Hamlet Within
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
Self
The Betty Driver Story
Self
The Keep
Dr. Theodore Cuza
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
Self
Animal Crackers
Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
Vicious
Freddie Thornhill
And the Band Played On
Bill Kraus
Walter
Walter
Rasputin
Tsar Nicholas II
The Good Liar
Roy Courtnay
Edmund the Magnificent
Self - Narrator (voice)
Dying Day
Antony Skipling
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
Schadenfreude
Continuity Announcer
Freedom: 50 Years of Pride
Self
The Critic
Jimmy Erskine
David Copperfield
Creakle
Asylum
Dr. Peter Cleave
Tales of the City
Archibald Anson Gidde
Hating Peter Tatchell
Self
McKellen: Playing the Part
Himself
Jack & Sarah
William
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Speaker
The Dresser
Norman
Richard III
Richard III
Edward II
King Edward
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
Gandalf
Cold Comfort Farm
Amos Starkadder
Plenty
Sir Andrew Charleson
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
Cats
Gus, the Theatre Cat
The Hobart Shakespeareans
Himself
Quintessentially British
Self
Gods and Monsters
James Whale
The Prisoner
2 / Curtis
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Self - 'Magneto'
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'
The Making of the Return of the King
Self
Neverwas
Gabriel Finch
Eighteen
Jason Anders (voice)
Guerrilla Distribution
Himself
The One Note Man
Narrator (voice)
Bent
Uncle Freddie
Walter and June
Walter
An Evening with Lily Savage
Self
Perspectives
Hamlet
Hamlet
Graceless Go I
Tony
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU
King Lear
King Lear
Camp Christmas
Priest of Love
D.H. Lawrence
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Alexander Ivanov
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
Narrator (voice)
The Wolverine
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
Six Degrees of Separation
Geoffrey
David Macaulay: Roman City
Augustus Caesar (voice)
All Is True
Earl of Southampton
Swept from the Sea
Dr. James Kennedy
Armchair Thriller
Anthony Skipling
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Wolf
Restoration
Will Gates
Zina
Kronfeld
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Self
Country Matters
David Masterman
Windmills of the Gods
Chairman
The Tragedy of King Richard II
King Richard II
Playing Shakespeare
For the Love of God
The Jackdaw
The Christophers
Julian Sklar
On Broadway
Self
To Die For
Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
Billy & Dom Eat the World
Himself
I'll Do Anything
John Earl McAlpine
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
Self
A Touch of Love
George
Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!
Self
Alfred the Great
Roger
Othello
Iago
Émile
Emile
Pillar of Fire
Narrator
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Self
The Art of Breaking Character
Self
Muse of Fire
Self
Theatreland
Himself
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Churchill
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Doogal
Zebedee (voice)
My First Time
Narrator
Lady Grey London
Infinitum: Subject Unknown
Dr. Charles Marland-White
Great British Theatre
How a Kite Flies
Mr. Kite (voice)
Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?
Dragfox
Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)
Doctor Who: The Snowmen
The Great Intelligence (voice)
X-Men: The Last Stand
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!
Self
X-Men
Magneto
Looking for Lowry
Himself
Hedda Gabler
George Tesman
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
Self
X2
Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
Narrator (voice)
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Self
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Self
Scarfe's Follies
The Promise
Saint of 9/11
Narrator
The Making of The Two Towers
Quest for the Ring
Self
The Egg Trick
Magician
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
The Roof
And Even Yet Another Fan
The Life and Death of Lily Savage
Self
Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen
The Paul O'Grady Story
Self
Gladio
Aldo Moro (voice)
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
After Stonewall
Self
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Self
Miss in Her Teens
The Prologue
Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet
Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
Narration (voice)
A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
Narrator (voice)
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Self
Play the Devil: Making Richard III
Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
Shakespeare on Film
London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony
Self
No Man's Land
Spooner
Dragged Through Time
Surviving Friendly Fire
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Süleyman the Magnificent
Narrator
Richard II
Richard II
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The One Show
Self - Guest
The View
Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Have I Got News for You
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Parkinson
Self
An Audience with...
Self
The Paul O'Grady Show
Reunited Apart
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self