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Ian McKellen

05/25/1939 (86 years old) | Burnley, UK | Actor | Male | 180 cm (5'11")

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born May 25, 1939) is 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, eight BAFTA film and TV nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. McKellen's work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His notable film roles include Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and Magneto in the X-Men films.

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Ian McKellen Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	31,896
2.	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	13,871
3.	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	11,898
4.	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	9,939
5.	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	6,346
6.	The Da Vinci Code	2,541
7.	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	1,963
8.	Last Action Hero	1,636
9.	Six Degrees of Separation	1,094
10.	X-Men: Days of Future Past	682
11.	The Good Liar	612
12.	X-Men	407
13.	Stardust	390
14.	Flushed Away	373
15.	The Golden Compass	211
16.	Beauty and the Beast	195
17.	The Wolverine	85
18.	X2: X-Men United	69
19.	Mr. Holmes	43
20.	The Shadow	36
21.	Cats	30
22.	X-Men: The Last Stand	24
23.	David Copperfield	16
24.	All Is True	10
25.	The Dresser	0

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Movie | United States | 12/19/2001 | Fantasy | Wizards

8.9/10

91%

128,228

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Movie | United States | 12/18/2002 | Fantasy | Wizards

Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.

8.8/10

95%

65,231

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Movie | United States | 12/01/2003 | Fantasy | Wizards

Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.

9.0/10

93%

55,642

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Movie | United States | 12/12/2012 | Fantasy | Wizards

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

7.8/10

64%

67,968

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Movie | United States | 12/13/2013 | Fantasy | Wizards

The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.

7.8/10

74%

36,834

The Da Vinci Code

Movie | United States | 05/19/2006 | Adventure | Treasure hunt

When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor Robert Langdon and cryptographer Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

6.6/10

25%

7,042

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Movie | United States | 12/10/2014 | Fantasy | Wizards

Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.

7.4/10

59%

34,937

Last Action Hero

Movie | United States | 06/18/1993 | Action | Action Heroes

Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to save the life of his hero and new friend.

6.5/10

38%

3,284

Six Degrees of Separation

Movie | United States | 12/08/1993 | Comedy | Crime Comedy

The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.

6.9/10

1,265

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Movie | United States | 05/23/2014 | Superhero | Marvel

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. The beloved characters from the original “X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from “X-Men: First Class, in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.

7.9/10

90%

1,829

The Good Liar

Movie | United States | 11/08/2019 | Crime | Heist

An aging con artist cannot believe his luck when he meets a wealthy widow and marks her as his next target. But she hides a secret of her own.

6.7/10

63%

8,443

X-Men

Movie | United States | 07/13/2000 | Superhero | Marvel

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

7.3/10

82%

1,820

Stardust

Movie | United Kingdom | 08/09/2007 | Fantasy | Wizards

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that hell retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.

7.6/10

77%

1,040

Flushed Away

Movie | United Kingdom | 11/02/2006 | Animation | Animals

London high-society mouse Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs Spike and Whitey.

6.6/10

73%

1,727

The Golden Compass

Movie | United States | 12/07/2007 | Fantasy | Wizards

After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that its part of her destiny.

6.1/10

43%

470

Beauty and the Beast

Movie | United States | 03/15/2017 | Fantasy | Princesses

A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic 'Beauty and the Beast' tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

7.1/10

71%

3,694

The Wolverine

Movie | United States | 07/23/2013 | Superhero | Marvel

Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.

6.7/10

71%

759

X2: X-Men United

Movie | United States | 04/27/2003 | Superhero | Marvel

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker in this sequel to the Marvel Comics-based blockbuster X-Men. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

7.4/10

85%

550

Mr. Holmes

Movie | United Kingdom | 07/17/2015 | Crime | Mystery

6.8/10

88%

193

The Shadow

Movie | United States | 07/01/1994 | Superhero | Independent Comics

6.0/10

35%

Cats

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/19/2019 | Musical | Musical

A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

2.8/10

19%

1,985

X-Men: The Last Stand

Movie | United States | 05/24/2006 | Superhero | Marvel

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.

6.6/10

57%

373

David Copperfield

TV Show | United Kingdom | 12/25/1999 | Drama

Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.

All Is True

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/21/2018 | History | Kings and Queens

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

6.3/10

The Dresser

Movie | United Kingdom | 10/31/2015 | Drama | World War II

One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.

6.7/10

100%

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