Ian McKellen
Birthday: 1939-05-25
Birthplace: Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Drafted: 154
Drafted By: Calvin and Nobbs
Owned By: Calvin and Nobbs
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. With a career spanning more than sixty years, he is noted for his 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 went on to receive 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), 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 a patron of LGBT History Month, Pride London, Oxford Pride, GayGlos, LGBT Foundation, and FFLAG.
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Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1999 | 60 | Gods and Monsters (1998) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 2002 | 63 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | Supporting Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
| Date | Location | Team | Receives | Team | Receives | Team | Receives |
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Credits
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Richard II | Richard II | |
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Schadenfreude | Continuity Announcer | |
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The Christophers | ||
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2024-09-13 | The Critic | Jimmy Erskine |
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2024-08-29 | Dragfox | Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) |
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2024-06-09 | The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved | |
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2024-02-27 | Hamlet | Hamlet |
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2022-05-21 | Hamlet Within | |
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2021-03-03 | Infinitum: Subject Unknown | Dr. Charles Marland-White |
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2020-06-11 | Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU | |
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2020-04-05 | Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet | |
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2019-12-19 | Cats | Gus, the Theatre Cat |
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2019-11-08 | The Good Liar | Roy Courtnay |
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2018-12-21 | All Is True | Earl of Southampton |
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2018-09-27 | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear |
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2017-06-23 | Animal Crackers | Horatio P. Huntington (voice) |
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2017-04-28 | How a Kite Flies | Mr. Kite (voice) |
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2017-03-16 | Beauty and the Beast | Cogsworth |
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2016-12-15 | National Theatre Live: No Man's Land | Spooner |
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2016-05-31 | Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen | |
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2016-05-31 | Shakespeare on Film | |
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2016-05-31 | Play the Devil: Making Richard III | |
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2016-04-24 | All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film | Prospero's Speech Reader (voice) |
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2016-03-31 | The Roof | And Even Yet Another Fan |
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2015-10-31 | The Dresser | Norman |
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2015-06-19 | Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes |
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2014-12-10 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Gandalf the Grey |
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2014-05-15 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Magneto |
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2014-04-15 | Miss in Her Teens | The Prologue |
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2013-12-11 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Gandalf the Grey |
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2013-07-21 | The Wolverine | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited) |
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2013-06-21 | The Egg Trick | Magician |
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2012-12-25 | Doctor Who: The Snowmen | The Great Intelligence (voice) |
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2012-12-12 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Gandalf the Grey |
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2010-12-08 | Lady Grey London | |
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2010-07-22 | Small-Time Revolutionary | Hamish Miller (voice) |
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2008-08-06 | King Lear | King Lear |
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2007-12-04 | The Golden Compass | Iorek Byrnison (voice) |
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2007-02-28 | For the Love of God | The Jackdaw |
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2006-10-22 | Flushed Away | The Toad (voice) |
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2006-05-24 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto |
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2006-05-17 | The Da Vinci Code | Sir Leigh Teabing |
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2006-02-24 | Doogal | Zebedee (voice) |
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2005-09-09 | Neverwas | Gabriel Finch |
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2005-09-09 | Asylum | Dr. Peter Cleave |
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2005-02-02 | The Magic Roundabout | Zebedee (voice) |
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2005-01-01 | Eighteen | Jason Anders (voice) |
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2004-03-27 | Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is? | |
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2003-12-17 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf |
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2003-11-25 | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 | |
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2003-04-27 | X2 | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto |
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2003-02-11 | Evolution X - The Making of X-Men | |
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2003-01-01 | Émile | Emile |
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2002-12-18 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Gandalf |
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2001-12-18 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf |
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2000-07-13 | X-Men | Magneto |
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1998-10-23 | Apt Pupil | Kurt Dussander |
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1998-09-12 | Gods and Monsters | James Whale |
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1998-01-23 | Swept from the Sea | Dr. James Kennedy |
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1997-11-26 | Bent | Uncle Freddie |
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1997-06-21 | Surviving Friendly Fire | |
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1996-03-23 | Rasputin | Tsar Nicholas II |
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1995-12-29 | Richard III | Richard III |
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1995-12-29 | Restoration | Will Gates |
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1995-06-02 | Jack & Sarah | William |
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1995-01-01 | Cold Comfort Farm | Amos Starkadder |
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1994-09-23 | Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest | |
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1994-07-01 | The Shadow | Dr. Reinhardt Lane |
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1994-02-15 | David Macaulay: Roman City | Augustus Caesar (voice) |
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1994-02-04 | I'll Do Anything | John Earl McAlpine |
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1993-12-24 | Camp Christmas | |
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1993-12-08 | Six Degrees of Separation | Geoffrey |
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1993-09-11 | And the Band Played On | Bill Kraus |
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1993-08-20 | The Ballad of Little Jo | Percy Corcoran |
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1993-06-23 | Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up | Narration (voice) |
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1993-06-18 | Last Action Hero | Death |
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1992-07-10 | Gladio | Aldo Moro (voice) |
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1990-06-23 | Othello | Iago |
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1989-04-07 | Countdown to War | Adolf Hitler |
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1989-03-03 | Scandal | John Profumo |
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1988-01-28 | Scarfe's Follies | |
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1985-11-01 | Zina | Kronfeld |
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1985-09-20 | Plenty | Sir Andrew Charleson |
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1983-12-16 | The Keep | Dr. Theodore Cuza |
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1983-04-30 | Walter and June | Walter |
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1982-11-09 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin |
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1982-11-02 | Walter | Walter |
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1982-04-25 | Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare | |
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1981-10-11 | Priest of Love | D.H. Lawrence |
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1979-11-14 | Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | Alexander Ivanov |
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1979-02-02 | Macbeth | Macbeth |
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1972-10-20 | Hedda Gabler | George Tesman |
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1970-11-07 | Hamlet | Hamlet |
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1970-08-06 | Edward II | King Edward |
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1970-07-30 | The Tragedy of King Richard II | King Richard II |
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1969-12-01 | The Promise | |
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1969-10-08 | Alfred the Great | Roger |
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1969-09-01 | A Touch of Love | George |
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1965-11-10 | The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne | Wolf |