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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
Gandalf
for Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Suggested by ramsescamilo
Tolkien var övertygad om att hans bok inte kunde anpassas. Miljontals fans av Midgård runt om i världen följde i hans fotspår. Men det stoppade inte Peter Jackson. Hur en kultbok visade sig vara en inte mindre kultfilm. Den första delen av trilogin var mycket efterlängtad. Men regissören hade ingen brådska, han visste att han inte hade rätt att göra ett misstag här. Bara musiken tog över två år att skriva, och omkring tre tusen timmars filmsekvenser låg till grund för den tre timmar långa episka sagan. Och den här gången har regissören och hans kollegor lyckats vinna även de mest skeptiska Tolkien-fansens hjärtan. Dessutom har filmen lockat miljontals nya fans av fantasy och äventyr till Midgård. Så det lilla fredliga hobbitsamhället, de mest oansenliga och svagaste invånarna i ett stort land, befinner sig plötsligt mitt i fantastiska händelser och farliga äventyr, som verkar vara bortom kraften hos även större varelser. Allt börjar när Frodo får en mystisk ring av sin farbror som en gång tillhörde en mörk trollkarl. För att förhindra kaos måste Frojo förstöra ringen. För att göra det ger han och hans vänner sig ut på en lång resa vars utgång kommer att avgöra deras världs framtid. Hur kommer händelserna i denna fantastiska historia att utvecklas kan du ta reda på genom att titta på online-filmen "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" på vår webbplats.
