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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
Doctor Septimus Pretorius
for Doctor Septimus Pretorius in Monsters and Gods : From the Tomb of the Mummy
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
2 years after the events of "Universal Monsters: The Mummy Legacy", the O'Connell family has found a reason to live since they met certain "monsters" who helped them during their last adventure, these even living in their mansion with them. However, Count Dracula and his new allies have a new plant to make this world a world for Gods and Monsters, finding the old place where the Oasis of Am-Shere was, where he managed to bring back the King Scorpion to life ! Together, they have a dark project : to use the blood of the worst enemy of his family, the last Van Helsing, to summon a powerful demon in this world. However, Doctor Jack Griffin, aka the Invisible Man, becomes aware of all this and goes to inform the O'Connells of what is going on. These and their friends are therefore preparing for a new adventure, while Gabriel Van Helsing also goes in search of them, after the terrible Headless Horseman, controlled by Baba Yaga, one of Dracula's accomplices, has been sent to his trace. Finally, one of the Count's accomplices, Doctor Praetorius, a great admirer of Frankenstein's work, years ago created a "Fiancée" for Victor's "monster", with the aim of using it to get him to join him, but he seems to have worked way too much with Lilith. If the O'Connells thought they had done the hardest part with Dracula the last time, they will discover that they are still far from it...
