• Name: Ian McKellen
  
• Birth Name: Ian Murray McKellen
  
• Height: 5' 11\"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: British
  
• Birth Date: May 25, 1939
  
• Birth Place: Burnley, Lancashire, UK
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Dicconson Street Wesleyan Primary School
  
•   : Wigan Grammar School for Boys
  
•   : Bolton School (Boys' Division)
  
•   : St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
  
• Father: Denis Murray (civil engineer)
  
• Mother: Margery Lois (née Sutcliffe)
  
• Sister: Jean (older)
  

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• On his first theatre experience, "Peter Pan": "I wasn't over-impressed. For one thing it wasn't a real crocodile and I could see the wires".
• "I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me."
• "Many unthinking people just don't like the idea of gays joining in their games, nor in the military and, it would seem, in the movies."
• "I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors."

• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Acting Ensemble, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2004)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2004)
• British Independent Film Awards: Entertainment Personality Award (2003)
• National Board of Review: Best Ensemble Performance, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)
• Cinequest San Jose Film Festival: Maverick Tribute Award (2002)
• Saturn Award: Best Supporting Actor, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2002)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2002)
• British Independent Film Awards: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1999)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1999)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1999)
• Florida Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1999)
• Independent Spirit Awards: Best Male Lead, GODS AND MONSTERS (1999)
• Online Film Critics Society Awards: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1999)
• Saturn Award: Best Supporting Actor, APT PUPIL (1999)
• L.A. Outfest: Outfest Achievement Award (1998)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1998)
• National Board of Review: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1998)
• San Diego Film Critics Society Awards: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1998)
• San Sebastián International Film Festival: Best Actor, GODS AND MONSTERS (1998)
• Toronto Film Critics Association Awards: Best Performance - Male, GODS AND MONSTERS (1998)
• Evening Standard British Film Awards: Best Film, RICHARD III (1997)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, RASPUTIN (1997)
• European Film Awards: Best Actor, RICHARD III (1996)
• CableACE Awards: Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries, AND THE BAND PLAYED ON (1995)
• GLAAD Media Awards: Stephen F. Kolzak Award (1993)

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