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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
Carl Conrad Corainder
for Carl Conrad Corainder in Mowgli Legend of the jungle
Suggested by danairisparker25
The film follows an African British boy named Bray Smith who lives in England with his family he is lonely and has no friends his family encourages him to never give up hope try and keep both feet on the ground stop daydreaming and start facing problems he heads to a library which is run by Carl Conrad Corainder then Bray discovers a mysterious book which is called Mowgli legend of the jungle he heads to school instead of going to class he heads to the school attic and reads the book the upbringing of the human child Mowgli raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of India as he learns the often rules of the jungle under the tutelage of a bear named Baloo and a black panther named Bagheera Mowgli becomes accepted by the animals as one their own except for one the fearsome Shere Khan but there may be greater dangers lurking in the jungle as Mowgli comes face to face with his human origins also there is a terrible force called the nothing which is destroying the jungle our heroes have to stop it but they cannot do it alone they need to find the missing child AKA the earthling child the reader who can save them all and the jungle back in the attic Bray and realizes he’s the earthling child and he has to save them and the jungle soon he gets transported into the jungle by the Auryn where he must help Mowgli and the others stop the enemies before it’s too late
