Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE is an English actor. His career spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He achieved worldwide fame for his film roles, including the titular King in Richard III and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. McKellen was knighted in the 1991 New Year Honours for services to the performing arts.
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Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE is an English actor. His career spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He achieved worldwide fame for his film roles, including the titular King in Richard III and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. McKellen was knighted in the 1991 New Year Honours for services to the performing arts. He has been openly gay since 1988, and continues to be a champion for LGBT social movements worldwide. He was awarded Freedom of the City of London in October 2014. His great-great-grandfather Robert J. Lowes was an activist and campaigner in the ultimately successful campaign for a Saturday half-holiday in Manchester, the forerunner to the modern five-day work week. His sister took him to his first play, Hamlet, by Laurence Olivier, with music by Mendelssohn. His early fascination with theatre was encouraged by his parents, who took him on a family outing to Peter Pan at the Opera House in Manchester when he was three. When he was nine, his main Christmas present was a fold-away wood and bake-away theatre from Toyatres, with cardboard scenery and wires to push on the cut-outs of Cinderella and Cinderella. He is a patron of the Bolton Little Theatre, of which he is now the chief executive. He also has a role in the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Midsommer Midsomer Murders and The Midsummer Murders of Aids, by Mendelsohn with music from Mendels sohn, with the music of Midsomessohn on the set.
His first role was in Hamlet by Hamlet and the amateurs of Wigan’s Little Macbeth Theatre, shortly followed by their production of The amateurs’ version of The Twelfth Night. His last was in Theelfth Night by Shakespeare, by Twelfth night, by Shakespeare. His role in The Middletons was in the play TwelfthNight by Shakespeare and the cast of The Little Company of Misfits, by William Makepeace Thackeray. His most recent role was as Magneto in the X-Men films, in which he played the lead role of Magneto. He played Magneto from the age of 20 to 25 in the film X- Men: The Last Stand. He appeared in the TV series X-men: The First World War, starring alongside Emma Watson as the title character, and also in the television series The Hobbit, The Hobbit and The Desolation of the Planet of the Apes. He starred in The Hobbit: The Deathly Hallows Part II and The Lord Of The Rings, as well as The Hobbit sequels and The Godfather: Part I and II. He won a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Critics’ Choice Awards. He received nominations for two Academy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards and four BAFTAs. He has been awarded a CBE for his services to drama.
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