Ian McKellen

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1939 age 0

   Born

2. 1993 age 54

   CreditLast Action Hero

3. 1998 age 59

   CreditGods and Monsters

4. 2000 age 61

   CreditX-Men

5. 2001 age 62

   CreditThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

6. 2002 age 63

   CreditThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

7. 2003 age 64

   CreditThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

   CreditX2

8. 2006 age 67

   CreditThe Da Vinci Code

   CreditX-Men: The Last Stand

9. 2007 age 68

   CreditStardust

10. 2012 age 73

    CreditThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

11. 2013 age 74

    CreditThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

    CreditThe Wolverine

12. 2014 age 75

    CreditThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

    CreditX-Men: Days of Future Past

13. 2015 age 76

    CreditMr. Holmes

    CreditMr. Holmes

14. 2017 age 78

    CreditBeauty and the Beast

15. 2019 age 80

    CreditCats

• HSHoward Shore6 titles
• PJPeter Jackson6 titles
• FWFran Walsh6 titles
• PBPhilippa Boyens6 titles
• CBCate Blanchett6 titles
• ALAndrew Lesnie6 titles
• RTRichard Taylor6 titles
• HWHugo Weaving5 titles
• OBOrlando Bloom5 titles
• CLChristopher Lee5 titles

• Partner

  • SMSean Mathias

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Any actor who has had his marriage photographed by the press has proclaimed his heterosexuality. Now, apart from one member of the House of Commons [Chris Smith], there are no gay members of the House of Commons? There are no gay members of the House of Lords? This is the times we are living in. That homosexuality is an invisible minority. Of course it's a minority. I would claim that it is between 5-10% of the population. Not converted to it, born with it, happy with it, would like to live with it, inoffensively and contributing to society. You [Peregrine Worsthorne] suspect they might be corrupting society.

  Ian McKellen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You must accept that there are very very few famous homosexuals in this country. There are no sportsmen who declare that they are gay because they don't like to because they are frightened of what will happen to them. And this is the area in which schoolchildren, to get back to the Bill, the schoolchildren who having no role models in society discover, fear, that they are gay, they go to their parents where they get a dusty answer, they go automatically, of course, to the other adults in their lives, they go to their teachers. And their teachers need to be in a position to be able to discuss that sexuality and reassure them that it is not against the law, it is not wrong and they must feel at ease with it, if they have decided at the end of their experimentation with their sexuality that they are one thing or the other. And this Bill will restrict dangerously that perfectly proper activity of the schools.

  Ian McKellen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think this country will be a healthier place if people in public life who are gay, announce that they are gay and left it at that so that the majority in society would understand that homosexuals are their friends, their supporters and a major contribution to the cultural and healthy life of this nation.

  Ian McKellen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The audience I play to really is the bright 14-year-old: someone who is capable of sitting still and listening and watching and feeling for even three hours. I know, as I did at that age, they'll potentially have their lives changed.

  Ian McKellen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think this is why a lot of actors, at least in the past, have been gay: the only place where they could be themselves, express themselves, at a time when it was illegal [...] to be homosexual, was in public, protected by the play. You could come up with real emotions for real situations but not of course your own.

  Ian McKellen, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Heterosexuality is far too interesting a phenomenon to be ignored.

  Ian McKellen, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Years active

1966–

Genres

Shakespearean comedy

Education

Bolton School, St Catharine's College