Ian McKellen
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday25 May 1939 (87 years old)
Place of birthBurnley, Lancashire, England, UK
Known credits230
Biography
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 i…
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
2027 · Gandalf
Avengers: Doomsday
2026 · Magneto
Ebenezer
2026 · Jacob Marley
Frank and Percy
2026 · Percy
Tea with Judi Dench featuring Ian McKellen
2026 · Self
The Christophers
2026 · Julian Sklar
LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes
2026 · L S Lowry
Schadenfreude
2025 · Continuity Announcer
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Billy & Dom Eat the World
2025 · Self
The Critic
2024 · Jimmy Erskine
Dragfox
2024 · Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice)
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
The Life and Death of Lily Savage
2024 · Self
Hamlet
2024 · Hamlet
ted
2024 · Narrator (voice)
The One Note Man
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Quintessentially British
2022 · Self
Freedom: 50 Years of Pride
2022 · Self
Hamlet Within
2022
Hating Peter Tatchell
2021 · Self
Amol Rajan Interviews
2021 · Self - Interviewed Guest
Great British Theatre
2021
Infinitum: Subject Unknown
2021 · Dr. Charles Marland-White
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU
2020
Reunited Apart
2020 · Self
Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet
2020
Cats
2019 · Gus, the Theatre Cat
The Good Liar
2019 · Roy Courtnay
On Broadway
2019 · Self
The Isle
2019 · Associate Producer
All Is True
2018 · Earl of Southampton
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2018 · King Lear
Animal Crackers
2018 · Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018 · Self
The Paul O'Grady Story
2017 · Self
How a Kite Flies
2017 · Mr. Kite (voice)
Beauty and the Beast
2017 · Cogsworth
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017 · Self
Edmund the Magnificent
2017 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016 · Self
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
2016 · Spooner
Play the Devil: Making Richard III
2016
Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen
2016
Shakespeare on Film
2016
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
2016 · Prospero's Speech Reader (voice)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Self - Performer
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