Ian McKellen said in a new interview that he hopes more LGBTQ+ actors embrace their sexuality, explaining that 'being in the ...

When Sir Ian McKellen performed the first same-sex kiss on British TV in the 1970 BBC production of Christopher Marlowe’s ...

Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's ...

Sir Ian McKellen has some words of wisdom for his fellow actors. The “Lord of the Rings” star, who famously came out of the ...

So why, after actor Richard Harris passed away in 2002 after filming the first two Harry Potter films, was Ian McKellen (a.k.a. Gandalf) not considered to replace him? Well, it turns out he was.

Sir Ian McKellen on Shakespeare on Stage ... leads for the RSC and National Theatre including Macbeth, Iago and King Lear. In 1995, he played the title role in Director Richard Loncraine's ...

He went on to receive the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1980). He was further nominated for Ian McKellen ... the titular King in Richard III ...

The critically acclaimed, recent stage cast of ‘Hamlet’, including Sir Ian McKellen, Frances Barber (King Lear, Chekhov’s The Seagull) and Jonathan Hyde (King Lear, Titanic, Crimson Peak ...

Sir Ian McKellen and actors like him give me hope ... but it’s even more important to be outspoken about them, like the King Lear actor. That doesn’t mean the work is done though, and progress ...

The critically acclaimed, recent stage cast of ‘Hamlet’, including Sir Ian McKellen, Frances Barber (King Lear, Chekhov’s The Seagull) and Jonathan Hyde (King Lear, Titanic, Crimson Peak), bring their ...

Ian McKellen wants his fellow actors to embrace their gender and sexual identity publicly. In an interview with The Times of ...