Ian Mckellen
Ian Mckellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBEis 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, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 May 1939
CityBurnley, England
chose raging
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
difference huge lifetime nowhere outside romantic secret somebody
The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
asked famous until
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
organized religion
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
home
There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.