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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 vs Superman (2015)
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. Like Bruce, Lex was also in Metropolis during the battle between Clark and Zod and his parents and brothers ended up dying due to destruction, because of that, Lex will do everything to make the bat and public opinion against the Kriptonian and destroy it at once. At the same time, Clark sees the world's lack of confidence in him and he will try to make up with everyone, allying himself with the government and doing what is right. During the story, Alfred will stand against Bruce's actions, trying to convince him that taking Superman's life is not the right thing to do. Clark will see that people still don't trust him and the government will try to make Superman serve exclusively to the USA, not agreeing Clark will isolate himself in Antarctica to reflect (just like in the original he is Superman again ). Lex kidnaps Martha Kent and sets everything up to look like Batman had done it, meanwhile Lex will also hand over his Kryptonite to Bruce and convince him not to give up on killing the metropolis hero. So, we have the final battle between Batman and Superman, which will end with Martha showing up to prevent Bruce from killing Clark (Superman would have already rescued her up to that point)Martha says that Lex had kidnapped her. upon seeing Superman and his mother together, Bruce remembers Dick and his father-son relationship and realizes that killing Clark will be doing the same thing that the Joker did to him.
