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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.
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After three onset years of the Clone Wars, two Jedi Knights return to Coruscant after General Grievous has kidnapped the Supreme Chancellor while Ahsoka Tano leads a clone battalion with Bo-Katan Kryze's Nightowls against Maul and Death Watch to retake the Mandalorian planet of Mandalore. After rescuing the leader of the Galactic Senate from the clutches of the CIS, he experiences visions of his wife Padme Amidala dying in childbirth while Yoda leads a Clone Army of the 32nd on Kashyyyk to reinforce the Wookiees against the Droid Army as Obi-Wan leads the 212th clones on the sinkhole planet of Utapau where the droid general has been located. Two genetic clones by the names of X1 and X2 Grey are under the commands of Jedi Masters Plo Koon and Ferroda on the Nemoidian planet of Cato Nemoidia. Meanwhile Anakin is tasked to spy on him and report to the Jedi Council of his motives and intentions that will change the fate of the galaxy, the Republic and the Jedi Order. On the Planet of Kaller, the enhanced clones AKA CF99/Bad Batch assists Jedi Master Depa Billaba and her Padawan Caleb Dume in a struggling battle against Separatists. After the death of Grievous and an attempt on Palpatine (revealed as Darth Sidious), seduces the young Jedi Knight to the dark side and dubs him "Darth Vader" prior to Order 66 and the rise of the Galactic Empire as the new Sith apprentice faces is former master on the volcanic world of Mustafar while the galaxy falls into total darkness.
