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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
Vector Prime
for Vector Prime in Transformers: Rise of Prime
Suggested by autobotsonicfan2007
Orion Pax, his girlfriend Ariel and best friend Dion have witnessed the true evil of Megatronus Prime and his pupil Megatron, the undefeated gladiator as they take civilians like the sparkling Jazz, the junior medic Ratchet, and the rookie security guard Ironhide to be chained in the middle of an arena while Megatron tries to kill for the fun of it. Orion saves them but pays the price. The Primes have fought Megatronus, but fell at the hands of him and Liege Maximo, another traitorous Prime.The three cvilian bots take Orion's body to Alpha Trion to revive him, as Ariel and Dion lead a new faction known as the Autobots against the newly formed faction the Decepticons, led by Megatron and Megatronus. On Orion's journey after resurrection, he encounters an entire planet of Dinobots, ruled by the powerful Giganaut and his son Grimlock, already at war with the Terrorcons. But it ended with Orion Pax's help. Together, Orion Pax leads his friends and the Dinobots to Cybertron and aid the Autobots in the first civil war in Cybertronian history.
