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Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an British and American actor. He has played roles on the screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Emmy Awards. McKellen made his stage debut in 1961 at the Belgrade Theatre as a member of its repertory company, and in 1965 made his first West End appearance. In 1969, he was invited to join the Prospect Theatre Company to play the lead parts in Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II. In the 1970s, McKellen became a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain. He has earned five Olivier Awards for his roles in Pillars of the Community (1977), The Alchemist (1978), Bent (1979), Wild Honey (1984), and Richard III (1995). McKellen made his Broadway debut in The Promise (1965). He received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1980). He was further nominated for Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare (1984). He returned to Broadway in Wild Honey(1986), Dance of Death (1990), No Man's Land (2013), and Waiting for Godot (2013), the latter two being a joint production with Patrick Stewart. McKellen achieved worldwide fame for his film roles, including the titular King in Richard III(1995), James Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998), Magneto in the X-Men films, Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies. Other notable film roles include A Touch of Love (1969), Plenty (1985), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Restoration (1995), Flushed Away (2006), Mr. Holmes (2015), and The Good Liar (2019). McKellen came out as gay in 1988, and has since championed LGBT social movements worldwide. He was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in October 2014. McKellen is a cofounder of Stonewall, an LGBT rights lobby group in the United Kingdom, named after the Stonewall riots. He is also patron of LGBT History Month, Pride London, Oxford Pride, GayGlos, LGBT Foundation and FFLAG. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McKellen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ian McKellen
Alfred Pennyworth
for Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: Chaos
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Bruce Wayne, multi-billionaire and son of one of the wealthiest families in Gotham City is also known as Batman, a vigilante and dark knight of Gotham. A gang war breaks out between Carmine Falcone and Sal Maroni due to the killing of one of each gang’s high ranking men to provoke chaos between the two factions. A masked man follows Batman and stalks him to learn his preferences, the way he fights, and who he really is under the mask. As the gang war escalated further, Batman saw more of this masked man and his watching of him. Finally, the masked man shows himself and challenges Batman to a fight and calls himself, “the bane of you existence” and Batman calls him Bane for short. Batman eventually gets his back broken over Bane’s knee and is left to die. Batman calls Alfred to come get him and bring him to the Batcave. Batman gets fixed up with a brace on his broken spine and matches the voice to a Diego Torres and owns a Sionis Industries warehouse on the docks in Otisburg. Before finding Bane, he takes on a whole group of thugs from both gangs before confronting Carmine Falcone with his newfound evidence to call off the gang war. Batman drives to the warehouse and catches Bane by surprise when he pulls him through the floor and into the basement. Batman beats Bane by cutting off his venom supply and beating him into the ground. He leaves Bsne hanging and gives him to Jim Gordon. The movie ends with a flying shot of Gotham with Batman narrating.
