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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
Master Eon
for Master Eon in Spyro: Rock The Dragon
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The movie opens with Three individuals in the Winter Tundra area of the distant land of Avalar, where they are working on a superportal. But things accidentally go awry when Hunter The Cheetah types in the coordinates 22475, and inadvertently brings Ripto, a short tempered (and Short Statured), dictator into Avalar. Elora notes that Ripto mentions that he hates dragons and suggests the summon a dragon to help beat Ripto. Meanwhile in the world of Dragons, Spyro is seen fighting Gnasty Gnorc, a creature who has long been at war with the Dragons, after a long fight, Spyro ultimately roasts Gnasty Gnorc and suggests that he and Sparx deserve a Vacation and decide to go to Dragon Shores. Back in Avalar, we see Hunter, Elora, and The Professor using a portal in Glimmer to intersect into the Dragon Realms and summon a dragon. Spyro comes into Avalar and witnesses Ripto in a rampage over the fact that a dragon has come to Avalar. Now Spyro must sort out the trouble Ripto has caused over Avalar, gain the Talismans and the trust of the civilians of Avalar to overthrow this Pint-Sized Dictator.
