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Sir Ian McKellen

Character

Gandalf

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

May 25, 1939

Date of Death

N/A

Origin

Burnley, Lancashire, England

Nationality

English

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"The Lord of The Rings is just mythology, it’s a fairytale, it’s an adventure. It never happened, except in our hearts. But then, there was The Shire, in three demensions. And smoke coming out of the burrows where they lived….. And, I believed."

—Sir Ian McKellen on The Lord of the Rings

Sir Ian Murray McKellen—born May 25, 1939—is a highly acclaimed English actor on both stage and screen. 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-story Victorian conversion in Narrow Street, within London, the capital of England.

He played the role of Gandalf in the three films that comprise the screen adaptation of Tolkien's novel trilogy The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). For the first chapter, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised the role of Gandalf for the three-part film adaptation of The Hobbit, including the now-released first chapter of the trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.