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Sir Ian McKellen

Sir Ian McKellen, the knighted British actor is best known by movie goers in recent years for his role as the wizard Gandolf in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ film trilogy, and as Magneto in the ‘X-Men’ trilogy. The Tony award-winning actor recently performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota in Shakespeare’s King Lear.  Ian McKellen, now age 71, has also been a tireless gay rights activist, since publicly declaring his sexual orientation at age 49.

“Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.”

- Ian McKellen  (1939- )

 

“Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we’re all different.”

- Ian McKellen  (1939- )

 

“I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.”  

- Ian McKellen  (1939- )

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