Ian McKellen Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. His career spans seven decades, having performed in genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. Regarded as a British cultural i ...

is an English stage and screen actor. He is the recipient of seven

Laurence Olivier Award The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital. The awards were originally known as ...

s, a Tony Award, a

Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in both American and international film and television. Beginning in 2022, there are 105 members of t ...

, two Academy Award nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Award nominations. McKellen's work spans genres ranging from William Shakespeare, Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His notable film roles include Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' and The Hobbit (film series), ''The Hobbit'' trilogies, Magneto (Marvel Comics), Magneto in the X-Men (film series), ''X-Men'' films, List of The Da Vinci Code characters#Sir Leigh Teabing/The Teacher, Sir Leigh Teabing in ''The Da Vinci Code (film), The Da Vinci Code'' (2006), Sherlock Holmes in ''Mr. Holmes'' (2015) and List of Disney's Beauty and the Beast characters#Cogsworth, Cogsworth in the live-action adaptation of ''Beauty and the Beast (2017 film), Beauty and the Beast'' (2017).

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Filmography

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Television

Video games

Music

* In 1987, McKellen appeared reciting Shakespeare while rock group The Fleshtones improvised behind him on ''Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes'' which ran on MTV. * Vampire in the music video "Heart (Pet Shop Boys song), Heart" by Pet Shop Boys * The man who's "falling out of reach" in the music video "Falling Out of Reach" by Guillemots (band), Guillemots * Appears on the Scissor Sisters track "Invisible Light" from their 2010 album ''Night Work (album), Night Work'', reciting a passage regarding the "Invisible Light" of the title. * Appeared as himself alongside George Ezra in the latter's music video for "Listen to the Man". Whilst Ezra is singing his song, McKellen joins in and lip-syncs Ezra's voice.

Music videos

Audiobooks

* Audiobook narrator of Michelle Paver's series ''Wolf Brother'', ''Spirit Walker (novel), Spirit Walker'', ''Soul Eater (novel), Soul Eater'', ''Outcast (Michelle Paver novel), Outcast'', ''Oath Breaker (novel), Oath Breaker'', and ''Ghost Hunter (Paver novel), Ghost Hunter'', as well as a version of Homer's ''Odyssey''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:McKellen, Ian Male actor filmographies British filmographies