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:
- 132
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Hamlet Revenant
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Critic 2023-09-07
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hamlet Revenant | 2025 | |
| Movie | The Critic | Jimmy Erskine | 2023-09-07 |
| Movie | Quintessentially British | Self | 2022-10-27 |
| Movie | Hating Peter Tatchell | Self | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | Cats | Gus, the Theatre Cat | 2019-12-19 |
| Movie | The Good Liar | Roy Courtnay | 2019-11-08 |
| 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 | Animal Crackers | Horatio P. Huntington (voice) | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self | 2017-03-11 |
| Movie | The Paul O'Grady Story | Himself | 2017-06-23 |
| Movie | Beauty and the Beast | Cogsworth | 2017-03-16 |
| 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 | National Theatre Live: No Man's Land | Spooner | 2016-12-15 |
| Movie | Shakespeare on Film | 2016-05-31 | |
| Movie | Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage | Self | 2016-12-30 |
| Movie | The Dresser | Norman | 2015-10-31 |
| Movie | Mr. Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 2015-06-19 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2014-05-15 |
| Movie | Miss in Her Teens | The Prologue | 2014-04-15 |
| Series | Trailblazer Honors | Himself | 2014-06-27 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Gandalf | 2014-12-10 |
| Series | Vicious | Freddie Thornhill | 2013-04-29 |
| Movie | The Wolverine | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited) | 2013-07-21 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Gandalf | 2013-12-11 |
| Movie | The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin | Self | 2013-12-03 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Himself | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | London 2012: Paralympics Opening Ceremony | Himself | 2012-08-29 |
| Movie | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Gandalf | 2012-12-12 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Snowmen | The Great Intelligence (voice) | 2012-12-25 |
| Movie | Looking for Lowry | Himself | 2011-04-24 |
| Movie | The Betty Driver Story | Himself (as Sir Ian McKellan) | 2011-02-01 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Small-Time Revolutionary | Hamish Miller (voice) | 2010-07-22 |
| Movie | A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation | Narrator (voice) | 2010-06-25 |
| 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) | 2007-08-09 |
| Movie | The Golden Compass | Iorek Byrnison (voice) | 2007-12-04 |
| Movie | The Da Vinci Code | Sir Leigh Teabing | 2006-05-17 |
| Movie | Doogal | Zebedee (voice) | 2006-02-24 |
| Movie | Saint of 9/11 | Narrator | 2006-04-27 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Last Stand | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2006-05-24 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | The Toad (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | The Magic Roundabout | Zebedee (voice) | 2005-02-02 |
| Movie | Eighteen | Jason Anders (voice) | 2005-01-01 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Voice of the Snowman | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | Ringers: Lord of the Fans | Self | 2005-01-21 |
| 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 | Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! | Himself | 2004-07-23 |
| Series | The Paul O'Grady Show | Unknown | 2004-10-11 |
| 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 |
| Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Unknown | 2003-02-21 |
| Movie | X2 | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2003-04-27 |
| Series | Churchill | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-08 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf | 2003-12-01 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Gandalf | 2002-12-18 |
| Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Unknown | 2002-06-08 |
| Movie | Quest for the Ring | Self | 2001-11-29 |
| Movie | A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of '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 | Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man | Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Self - 'Magneto' | 2000-07-02 |
| Movie | X-Men | Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2000-07-13 |
| Movie | Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! | Self | 2000-08-29 |
| Series | David Copperfield | Creakle | 1999-12-25 |
| Movie | Gods and Monsters | James Whale | 1998-01-21 |
| Movie | Apt Pupil | Kurt Dussander | 1998-10-23 |
| Movie | Swept from the Sea | Dr. James Kennedy | 1998-01-23 |
| Movie | A Bit Of Scarlet | Narrator | 1997-06-20 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Bent | Uncle Freddie | 1997-11-26 |
| Movie | Rasputin | Tsar Nicholas II | 1996-03-23 |
| Movie | Cold Comfort Farm | Amos Starkadder | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Jack & Sarah | William | 1995-06-02 |
| Movie | Richard III | Richard III | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Restoration | Will Gates | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Roman City | Augustus Caesar (voice) | 1994-02-15 |
| Movie | I'll Do Anything | John Earl McAlpine | 1994-02-04 |
| 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 | Last Action Hero | Death | 1993-06-18 |
| Movie | The Ballad of Little Jo | Percy Corcoran | 1993-08-20 |
| Movie | And the Band Played On | Bill Kraus | 1993-09-11 |
| Series | Tales of the City | Archibald Anson Gidde | 1993-09-28 |
| Movie | Six Degrees of Separation | Geoffrey | 1993-12-08 |
| 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 | A Touch of Love | George | 1969-09-01 |
| Movie | The Promise | 1969-12-01 | |
| Movie | Alfred the Great | Roger | 1969-10-08 |
| 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 |