Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 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.
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- Born:
- May 25, 1939 In Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 149
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Schadenfreude
- Latest Project:
- Movie Avengers: Doomsday 2026-12-17
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Schadenfreude | Continuity Announcer | 2026 |
| Movie | Avengers: Doomsday | Magneto | 2026-12-17 |
| Movie | A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself (archive footage) | 2025-09-10 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 2024-02-27 |
| Movie | The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved | 2024-06-09 | |
| Movie | Dragfox | Ginger Snap the Fox (Speaking) (voice) | 2024-08-31 |
| Movie | The Critic | Jimmy Erskine | 2024-09-13 |
| Movie | Quintessentially British | Self | 2022-10-27 |
| Movie | Freedom: 50 Years of Pride | Self | 2022-07-02 |
| Movie | Hating Peter Tatchell | Self | 2021-11-01 |
| Movie | The Good Liar | Roy Courtnay | 2019-11-08 |
| Movie | Cats | Gus, the Theatre Cat | 2019-12-19 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | McKellen: Playing the Part | Himself | 2018-05-25 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | All Is True | Earl of Southampton | 2018-12-21 |
| Movie | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self | 2017-03-11 |
| Movie | Beauty and the Beast | Cogsworth | 2017-03-16 |
| Movie | Animal Crackers | Horatio P. Huntington (voice) | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | The Paul O'Grady Story | Self | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | The Roof | And Even Yet Another Fan | 2016-03-31 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | 2016-04-23 |
| Movie | Play the Devil: Making Richard III | 2016-05-31 | |
| Movie | Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage | Self | 2016-12-30 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: No Man's Land | Spooner | 2016-12-15 |
| Movie | Shakespeare on Film | 2016-05-31 | |
| Movie | Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 2015-06-19 |
| Movie | The Dresser | Norman | 2015-10-31 |
| Movie | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-01 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Gandalf the Grey | 2014-12-10 |
| Movie | Miss in Her Teens | The Prologue | 2014-04-15 |
| Series | Trailblazer Honors | Himself | 2014-06-27 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Magneto | 2014-05-15 |
| Movie | The Egg Trick | Magician | 2013-06-21 |
| Movie | The Wolverine | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited) | 2013-07-21 |
| Series | Vicious | Freddie Thornhill | 2013-04-29 |
| Movie | The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin | Self | 2013-12-03 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Gandalf the Grey | 2013-12-11 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony | Self | 2012-08-29 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Gandalf the Grey | 2012-12-12 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Snowmen | The Great Intelligence (voice) | 2012-12-25 |
| Movie | The Betty Driver Story | Self | 2011-02-01 |
| Movie | Looking for Lowry | Himself | 2011-04-24 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation | Narrator (voice) | 2010-06-25 |
| Movie | Small-Time Revolutionary | Hamish Miller (voice) | 2010-07-22 |
| Movie | Theatreland | Himself | 2009-01-01 |
| Series | The Prisoner | 2 / Curtis | 2009-11-15 |
| Movie | King Lear | King Lear | 2008-08-06 |
| Movie | For the Love of God | The Jackdaw | 2007-02-28 |
| Movie | Stardust | Narrator (voice) | 2007-08-10 |
| Movie | The Art of Breaking Character | Self | 2007-03-26 |
| Movie | The Golden Compass | Iorek Byrnison (voice) | 2007-12-04 |
| Movie | Saint of 9/11 | Narrator | 2006-04-27 |
| Movie | Doogal | Zebedee (voice) | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Last Stand | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2006-05-24 |
| Movie | The Da Vinci Code | Sir Leigh Teabing | 2006-05-17 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | The Toad (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Ringers: Lord of the Fans | Self | 2005-01-21 |
| Movie | Eighteen | Jason Anders (voice) | 2005-01-01 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Voice of the Snowman | 2005-03-26 |
| Series | Extras | Ian McKellen | 2005-07-21 |
| Movie | Neverwas | Gabriel Finch | 2005-09-09 |
| Movie | Asylum | Dr. Peter Cleave | 2005-09-09 |
| Movie | The Hobart Shakespeareans | Himself | 2005-09-06 |
| Movie | Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is? | 2004-03-27 | |
| Movie | The Making of the Return of the King | Self | 2004-04-01 |
| Movie | The Magic Roundabout | Zebedee (voice) | 2004-10-24 |
| Movie | Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! | Self | 2004-07-23 |
| Series | The Paul O'Grady Show | Unknown | 2004-10-11 |
| Movie | Evolution X - The Making of X-Men | 2003-02-11 | |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Émile | Emile | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | X-Men: Premieres Around the World | Self | 2003-02-11 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2' | 2003-11-25 | |
| Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Unknown | 2003-02-21 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf | 2003-12-17 |
| Movie | Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King | Self | 2003-12-12 |
| Movie | X2 | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2003-04-27 |
| Series | Churchill | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-08 |
| Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Unknown | 2002-06-08 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Gandalf | 2002-12-18 |
| Movie | Quest for the Ring | Self | 2001-11-29 |
| Movie | Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' | Self | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf | 2001-12-18 |
| Movie | Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring | Self | 2001-12-23 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Self - 'Magneto' | 2000-07-02 |
| Movie | Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! | Self | 2000-08-29 |
| Movie | X-Men | Magneto | 2000-07-13 |
| Movie | After Stonewall | Self | 1999-06-06 |
| Series | David Copperfield | Creakle | 1999-12-25 |
| Movie | Swept from the Sea | Dr. James Kennedy | 1998-01-23 |
| Movie | Gods and Monsters | James Whale | 1998-09-12 |
| Movie | Apt Pupil | Kurt Dussander | 1998-10-23 |
| Movie | Bent | Uncle Freddie | 1997-11-26 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | A Bit Of Scarlet | Narrator | 1997-06-20 |
| Movie | An Evening with Lily Savage | Self | 1996-11-11 |
| Movie | Rasputin | Tsar Nicholas II | 1996-03-23 |
| Movie | Jack & Sarah | William | 1995-06-02 |
| Movie | Cold Comfort Farm | Amos Starkadder | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Richard III | Richard III | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Restoration | Will Gates | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | I'll Do Anything | John Earl McAlpine | 1994-02-04 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Roman City | Augustus Caesar (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| Movie | The Shadow | Dr. Reinhardt Lane | 1994-07-01 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-08-14 |
| Movie | To Die For | Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice) | 1994-12-02 |
| Movie | The Ballad of Little Jo | Percy Corcoran | 1993-08-20 |
| Movie | Last Action Hero | Death | 1993-06-18 |
| Series | Tales of the City | Archibald Anson Gidde | 1993-09-28 |
| Movie | And the Band Played On | Bill Kraus | 1993-09-11 |
| Movie | Six Degrees of Separation | Geoffrey | 1993-12-08 |
| Movie | Camp Christmas | 1993-12-24 | |
| Movie | Othello | Iago | 1990-06-23 |
| Movie | Scandal | John Profumo | 1989-03-03 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | Countdown to War | Adolf Hitler | 1989-04-07 |
| Series | Windmills of the Gods | Chairman | 1988-02-07 |
| Movie | Plenty | Sir Andrew Charleson | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | Zina | Kronfeld | 1985-11-01 |
| Series | Playing Shakespeare | 1984-07-29 | |
| Movie | Walter and June | Walter | 1983-04-30 |
| Movie | The Keep | Dr. Theodore Cuza | 1983-12-16 |
| Movie | Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare | 1982-04-25 | |
| Movie | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin | 1982-11-09 |
| Movie | Walter | Walter | 1982-11-02 |
| Movie | Priest of Love | D.H. Lawrence | 1981-10-11 |
| Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth | 1979-02-02 |
| Series | Armchair Thriller | Anthony Skipling | 1978-02-21 |
| Series | An Audience with... | Himself | 1978-01-08 |
| Movie | The Vanishing Army | 1978-11-29 | |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
| Series | Playhouse | 1974-03-13 | |
| Movie | Hedda Gabler | George Tesman | 1972-10-20 |
| Series | Country Matters | David Masterman | 1972-08-20 |
| Movie | Edward II | King Edward | 1970-08-06 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 1970-11-07 |
| Movie | The Promise | 1969-12-01 | |
| Movie | Alfred the Great | Roger | 1969-10-08 |
| Movie | A Touch of Love | George | 1969-09-01 |
| Series | David Copperfield | David Copperfield | 1966-01-16 |
| Series | BBC Play of the Month | Unknown | 1965-10-19 |
| Series | Coronation Street | Unknown | 1960-12-09 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |