Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, KBE (born May 25, 1939) is a highly acclaimed British actor on both stage and screen, regarded by many as the greatest living British actor. His roles have spanned genres from serious Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular action movies. He is also well known as a campaigner for gay rights. For over a decade he has lived in a five-storey Victorian conversion in Narrow Street, Limehouse, London.

Selected stage and screen credits

Theatre

• Much Ado About Nothing, Royal National Theatre, Old Vic, London, 1965
• Trelawney of the "Wells", National Theatre, London & Chichester Festival, 1965
• The Promise, West End; Broadway, 1967
• Edward II (in title role), Edinburgh Festival & West End, 1969
• Hamlet (title role), UK/European Tour, 1971
• 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, UK Tour, 1972
• Dr Faustus (title role), Royal Shakespeare Company, Edinburgh Festival & Aldwych Theatre (London), 1974
• King John, RSC, 1975
• Romeo and Juliet (as Romeo), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon & London, 1976
• The Winter's Tale, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1976
• Macbeth (title role), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon & Young Vic (London), 1976-1977
• The Alchemist, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon & London, 1977
• Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, RSC, Barbican Arts Centre (London), 1977
• Three Sisters, RSC, UK Tour, 1978
• Bent, West End, 1979
• Coriolanus (title role), National Theatre, 1984
• Wild Honey, National Theatre, 1984 (& Broadway, 1986)
• The Cherry Orchard (as Lopakhin), National Theatre, 1985
• The Duchess of Malfi, National Theatre, 1985
• The Real Inspector Hound, National Theatre, London & Paris, 1985
• Othello (as Iago), RSC, London & Stratford-upon-Avon, 1989
• Richard III (title role), National Theatre, world tour, 1990 & US tour, 1992
• Uncle Vanya (title role), National Theatre, 1992
• Peter Pan (as Mr. Darling/Captain Hook), National Theatre, 1997
• An Enemy of the People, National Theatre, 1997 & Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles), 1998
• Present Laughter, West Yorkshire Playhouse (Leeds, England), 1998
• Aladdin, Old Vic, 2004

Film

• The Keep, (1983)
• Scandal (as John Profumo), (1989)
• Six Degrees of Separation, (1993)
• Last Action Hero, (1993)
• The Shadow, (1994)
• Restoration, (1995)
• Richard III, (1995)
• Bent, (1997)
• Apt Pupil, (1998)
• Gods and Monsters, (1998)
• X-Men, (2000)
• ', (2001)
• ', (2002)
• ', (2003)
• ', (2003)
• Emile, (2005)
• Flushed Away, (2006)
• X-Men 3, (2006)
• The Da Vinci Code, (2006)

Television

• David Copperfield (title role), (1966)
• Hay Fever, (1968)
• Keats (as John Keats), (1970)
• Edward II, (1970)
• The Tragedy of King Richard II, (1970)
• Hedda Gabler, (1972)
• Macbeth, (1979)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel, (1982)
• Walter, (1982)
• And the Band Played On, (1993)
• Tales of the City, (1993)
• Rasputin (as Tsar Nicholas II), (1996)
• Coronation Street (2005)