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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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X-Men Vs Fantastic Four: Civil War is a 2010 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics teams X-Men and Fantastic Four, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by twentieth century fox . It is the sequel to X-Men Mutant Day (2009) and Fantastic Four: Quantuminan (2009). The film was directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay by the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and stars Hugh Jackman, James Marsden, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Shawn Ashmore, Elliott Page, Daniel Cudmore, Anna Paquin, Taylor Kitsch, Ryan Reynolds, Patrick Stewart, Ioan Gruffurd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Kerry Washington, Danny Huston, Ryan Reynolds and Sam Elliott. In the film, disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures the team into two opposing factions—one led by The X-Men and the other by the Fantastic Four. X-Men Vs Fantastic Four: Civil War held its world premiere in Los Angeles on April 12, 2016, and was released in the United States on May 6. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $1.1 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2016, and received positive reviews, including praise for the performances (particularly Paquin and Kitsch), action sequences, and themes.
