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
clearly invited members pupils school staff
One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
great liberal school tradition
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
acted amateur brought deal great north school theater university
Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
bullying school gay
I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.
school kids needs
Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.
drama school thinking
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
miss suppose
The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
australian change cost families gain gay government lives married people respect rights therefore worldwide
Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
trying
On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
life public
Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
desperate films job
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
john knights sir
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
illegal man time
I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
hope left life stage
I still hope I've got a lot of life left on stage and making films.