Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born May 25, 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.

BIRTH 25/05/1939
Country United Kingdom
SHOWS 16
MOVIES 62
SCRIPT 1
PRODUCTION 1

Shows Movies Partners

Shows (16)

ted

Narrator (voice)

Family Guy

Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Extras

Ian McKellen

The Prisoner (2009)

2 / Curtis

The View

Self - Guest

The Graham Norton Show

Self / Self (archive footage) / Self - Guest

Real Time with Bill Maher

Self

Who Do You Think You Are?

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

David Copperfield (1999)

Creakle

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

Vicious

Freddie Thornhill

Coronation Street

Mel Hutchwright

Churchill

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Armchair Thriller

Anthony Skipling

Movies (62)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the…

Gandalf

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Gandalf

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Gandalf

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Gandalf

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Gandalf

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Gandalf

X-Men

Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

Beauty and the Beast

Cogsworth

X-Men: The Last Stand

Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto

The Da Vinci Code

Sir Leigh Teabing

The Good Liar

Roy Courtnay

Last Action Hero

Death

Stardust

Narrator (voice)

The Golden Compass

Iorek Byrnison (voice)

X-Men: The Mutant Watch

Self - 'Magneto'

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

The Great Intelligence (voice)

Flushed Away

The Toad (voice)

Mr. Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Animal Crackers

Horatio P. Huntington (voice)

The Keep

Dr. Theodore Cuza

The Magic Roundabout

Zebedee (voice)

Apt Pupil

Kurt Dussander

Cats

Gus, the Theatre Cat

Bent

Uncle Freddie

The Critic

Jimmy Erskine

Swept from the Sea

Dr. James Kennedy

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Self

Ringers: Lord of the Fans

Self

Jack & Sarah

William

A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation

Narrator (voice)

Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring

Self

Neverwas

Gabriel Finch

The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin

Self

Restoration

Will Gates

The Dresser

Norman

The Shadow

Dr. Reinhardt Lane

The Ballad of Little Jo

Percy Corcoran

Saint of 9/11

Narrator

Plenty

Sir Andrew Charleson

Marley

Scrooge (rumored)

Muse of Fire

Self

Hating Peter Tatchell

Self

Émile

Emile

Asylum

Dr. Peter Cleave

A Performance of Macbeth

Macbeth

Rasputin

Tsar Nicholas II

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

Narrator (voice)

Scandal

John Profumo

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Self - Performer

I'll Do Anything

John Earl McAlpine

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Chauvelin

Infinitum: Subject Unknown

Dr. Charles Marland-White

Six Degrees of Separation

Geoffrey

Doogal

Zebedee (voice)

Gods and Monsters

James Whale

King Lear

Richard III

Cold Comfort Farm

Amos Starkadder

All Is True

Earl of Southampton

On Broadway

Self

Script

Richard III

Production

Richard III

Partners (10)