Ian McKellen

🎂 Data nașterii: 1939-05-25 (Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK)

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.

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Ian McKellen

Filme în care a jucat

Stăpânul inelelor: Frăția inelului

Stăpânul inelelor: Întoarcerea regelui

Stăpânul inelelor: Cele două turnuri

Codul lui Da Vinci

Gods and Monsters

Busola de aur

Pulberea de stele

Swept from the Sea

Jack & Sarah

And the Band Played On

Sase diferente fundamentale

A fost odata ca niciodata

Richard III

Aruncat la canal

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

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Doogal

Asylum

Umbra

Scandal

Cold Comfort Farm

Influență nefastă

Ultima aventură

The Keep

A Performance of Macbeth

Plenty

Hamlet Within

Emile

X-Men

X-Men 2

X-Men: Ultima înfruntare

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

An Evening with Lily Savage

King Lear

The Magic Roundabout

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

Rasputin

Hobbitul: O călătorie neașteptată

Priest of Love

Gladio

Bent

The Ballad of Little Jo

Alfred the Great

Hobbitul: Dezolarea lui Smaug

Walter

Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!

Saint of 9/11

Hobbitul: Bătălia celor cinci oștiri

Schadenfreude

X-Men: Viitorul este trecut

London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony

Piatra de moară

Theatreland

To Die For

Surviving Friendly Fire

Walter și June

Muse of Fire

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

A Bit Of Scarlet

Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare

Criticul de teatru

Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love

Zina

Miss in Her Teens

Othello

For the Love of God

The One Note Man

All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film

Hamlet

Dl. Holmes

Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?

Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

Voi face orice

Wolverine

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Salvați de Crănțănei

Hamlet