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Ian McKellen

05/25/1939 (84 years old) | Burnley, UK | Actor | Male | 180 cm (5'11")

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 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	8,167
2.	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	3,897
3.	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	3,369
4.	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	3,016
5.	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2,998
6.	The Da Vinci Code	544
7.	X-Men: Days of Future Past	422
8.	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	232
9.	Last Action Hero	195
10.	Flushed Away	144
11.	X2: X-Men United	56
12.	Beauty and the Beast	46
13.	The Good Liar	43
14.	The Wolverine	37
15.	The Shadow	36
16.	X-Men	33
17.	Mr. Holmes	31
18.	The Golden Compass	22
19.	Stardust	19
20.	Six Degrees of Separation	5
21.	All Is True	3
22.	X-Men: The Last Stand	3
23.	Cats	2

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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

8.9/10

91%

96,205

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Movie | United States | 11/26/2012 | 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%

59,658

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%

33,273

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%

49,045

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%

42,973

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%

2,508

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%

1,489

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%

31,799

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%

1,151

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%

1,275

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%

514

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%

2,677

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%

6,837

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%

709

The Shadow

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

6.0/10

35%

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%

1,352

Mr. Holmes

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

6.8/10

88%

175

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%

211

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%

569

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

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

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%

277

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%

1,957

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