Sir Ian McKellen’s work has garnered dozens of accolades, among them a Tony Award for his role as Salieri in the Broadway presentation of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, four Olivier Awards for his many performances in London’s West End, a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Gandalf the Grey in The Fellowship of the Rings, and a Golden Globe Award for his depiction of Nicholas II in Rasputin. 1976 has established young Ian McKellen as one of our era’s most charismatic actors after co-starring in two of Shakespeare’s most legendary works. In the mid-1990s Sir Richard Eyre directed McKellen in a Richard III that thrilled audiences on three continents. A short time later Sir Ian had gone on to co-produce, and star in, a cinematic adaptation of the same classic. That brilliant film paved the way for his leading roles in a memorable series of other motion pictures, among them All is True, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, The Da Vinci Code, Gods and Monsters, The Good Liar, Mr. Holmes, King Lear, The Lord of the Rings, and The X-Men.
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