Unlimited Streaming
with Prime Video
All Movies List
 On Broadway

as Self

2019
Infinitum: Subject Unknown

as Dr. Charles Marland-White

2021
Animal Crackers

as Horatio P. Huntington (voice)

2017
Hating Peter Tatchell

as Self

2021
The Good Liar

as Roy Courtnay

2019
Cats

as Gus, the Theatre Cat

2019
McKellen: Playing the Part

as Himself

2018
National Theatre Live: King Lear

as King Lear

2018
All Is True

as Earl of Southampton

2018
Beauty and the Beast

as

2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

as Self

2017
Mr. Holmes

as Sherlock Holmes

2015
The Dresser

as Norman

2015
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

as Gandalf the Grey

2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past

as Magneto

2014
Miss in Her Teens

as The Prologue

2014
Vicious

as Freddie Thornhill

2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

as Gandalf the Grey

2013
Muse of Fire

as Self

2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

as Gandalf the Grey

2012
Doctor Who: The Snowmen

as The Great Intelligence (voice)

2012
The Prisoner

as 2 / Curtis

2009
King Lear

as King Lear

2008
The Golden Compass

as Iorek Byrnison (voice)

2007
Stardust

as

2007
For the Love of God

as The Jackdaw

2007
The Da Vinci Code

as Sir Leigh Teabing

2006
Flushed Away

as The Toad (voice)

2006
Doogal

as Zebedee (voice)

2006
X-Men: The Last Stand

as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

2006
Ian McKellen Ian McKellen

Birthday

1939-05-25

Place of Birth

Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK

Biography

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received two Academy Award nominations, eight BAFTA film and TV nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. McKellen's work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His notable film roles include Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and Magneto in the X-Men films.
AD

WATCH FREE FOR 30 DAYS

All Prime Video
Cancel anytime
Watch Now