Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen is
an English actor. He has received a Tony Award and two Academy Award
nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre
to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known to many for roles such as
Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and as Magneto in the X-Men
films. In 1988, McKellen came out
and announced he was gay. He became a founding member of Stonewall, one of the
United Kingdom's most influential LGBT rights groups, of which he remains a
prominent spokesman. He was made a Commander of
the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1979, and knighted in the 1991 New
Year Honours for his outstanding work and contributions to theatre. In the 2008
New Year Honours he was made a Companion of Honour (CH) for services to drama
and to equality.

Movie		Character	Year
	Alfred the Great	Roger	1969
	A Performance of Macbeth	Macbeth	1979
	Last Action Hero	Death	1993
	The Ballad of Little Jo	Percy Corcoran	1993
	The Shadow	Dr. Reinhardt Lane	1994
	Richard III	Richard III	1995
	Bent	Uncle Freddie	1997
	Apt Pupil	Kurt Dussander	1998
	David Copperfield	Creakle	1999
	X-Men	Eric Lensherr / Magneto	2000
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gandalf the Grey	2001
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Gandalf the White	2002
	X2: X-Men United	Eric Lensherr / Magneto	2003
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Gandalf the White	2003
	Doogal	Zebedee	2006
	The Da Vinci Code	Sir Leigh Teabing	2006
	X-Men: The Last Stand	Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto	2006
	Flushed Away	The Toad	2006
	Stardust	Narrator	2007
	The Golden Compass	Iorek Byrnison (voice)	2007
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Gandalf	2012
	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Gandalf	2013
	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (Future)	2014