Ian McKellen
Birthday: 1939-05-25 | Place of Birth: Burnley, Lancashire, England, UKSir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 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
Acting
Role
as Dr. Charles Marland-White
as Self
as Gus, the Theatre Cat
as Roy Courtnay
as Self
as Earl of Southampton
as Himself
as King Lear
as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
as Norman
as Sherlock Holmes
as Gandalf the Grey
as Magneto
as The Prologue
as Freddie Thornhill
as Gandalf the Grey
as Self
as Gandalf the Grey
as The Great Intelligence (voice)
as 2 / Curtis
as King Lear
as Iorek Byrnison (voice)
as The Jackdaw
as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
as Sir Leigh Teabing
as The Toad (voice)
as Zebedee (voice)
