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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
Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto
for Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto in Doctor Doom
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
Happens during my personal version of the MCU. After the events of "Falcon and Winter Soldier", Sokovia is increasingly shaken by the events of the blip. In its troubled times, Hydra uses its remaining resources to dominate the land and make it a new stronghold. However, a man, from the oldest and most illustrious family in the country, decides that he is tired of seeing his country being dominated by tyrants and therefore uses his great wealth and his immense intelligence to become, not a hero, but the terror of Hydra. Victor Von Doom is however considered by his people as the new Iron Man, while he neutralizes many Hydra troops, although he does not take gloves to get there. It is in this context that mutants come out of the shadows, the X-Men coming to this country so that Professor Xavier can find his old friend, Erik Lehnsherr, a long-time prisoner of Hydra, this organization having washed his brain to serve them. Doom agrees to help them free him, as he is a very powerful adversary, while Charles advises Victor on the path he should take, be a new plague to this world or a new savior. However, the man who intends to return his country to its greatness, as well as its old name "Latveria", simply intends to be Doctor Doom !
