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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.

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
as Gandalf

Avengers: Doomsday
as Magneto
Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol
as Jacob Marley

The Christophers
as Julian Sklar

LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes
as L S Lowry

Schadenfreude
as Continuity Announcer

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
as Self (archive footage)
Dragged Through Time

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

Billy & Dom Eat the World
as Self

The Critic
as Jimmy Erskine

Dragfox
as Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

The Life and Death of Lily Savage
as Self

Hamlet
as Hamlet

ted
as Narrator (voice)

The One Note Man
as Narrator (voice)

Quintessentially British
as Self

Freedom: 50 Years of Pride
as Self

Hamlet Within

Hating Peter Tatchell
as Self

Amol Rajan Interviews
as Self - Interviewed Guest

Great British Theatre

Infinitum: Subject Unknown
as Dr. Charles Marland-White

Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU

Reunited Apart
as Self

Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

Cats
as Gus, the Theatre Cat

The Good Liar
as Roy Courtnay

On Broadway
as Self

All Is True
as Earl of Southampton

National Theatre Live: King Lear
as King Lear

Animal Crackers
as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)

McKellen: Playing the Part
as Self

The Paul O'Grady Story
as Self

How a Kite Flies
as Mr. Kite (voice)

Beauty and the Beast
as Cogsworth

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
as Self

Edmund the Magnificent
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
as Self

National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
as Spooner
Play the Devil: Making Richard III
Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen
Shakespeare on Film

All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
as Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer

The Roof
as And Even Yet Another Fan

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)

The Dresser
as Norman

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest

Mr. Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Gandalf the Grey

Nelson Mandela Redrawn
as Self

Trailblazer Honors
as Self - Speaker

X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Magneto

Miss in Her Teens
as The Prologue

Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
as Gandalf the Grey

The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin
as Self