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Real Name: Ian Murray McKellen
Birthday:
05/25/1939
Birthplace: Lancashire, England, UK
Occupation: Actor
Sign: Gemini
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At 13,Ian performed in his first Shakespeare play playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night. During his summer vacations he gained an additional appreciation for Shakespeare when he attended camp in Stratford-upon-Avon and spent the evenings watching the likes of Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and John Gielgud. In 1993, he became recognizable to American television audiences playing gay men in And the Band Played On and Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, two acclaimed TV miniseries; McKellen earned an Emmy nomination for his work in the former. Ian played ...
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Long considered one of the finest British stage actors, Ian McKellen has defied conventional wisdom which posits that being openly homosexual would either pigeonhole you or destroy your career. In fact, since his 1988 decision to "come out" during a BBC radio broadcast, he not only has been knighted for his services to the theater (in 1991) but found himself an unlikely movie star. Born in Burnley and raised in Wigan and Bolton, Ian Murray McKellen knew from an early... |
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