Sir Ian Murray McKellen, thanks to being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 at the age of 52.
He was born in 1939 and began acting at 22 after earning his bachelor’s degree St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, in 1961.
Thanks to his role in the English Director Tyrone Guthrie’s stage drama, Coriolanus, at the Nottingham Playhouse, he had already begun making a name for himself by the age of 24.
Young McKellen’s dark hair, angular features, and penetrating gaze exuded a timeless quality that fans perceived as the look of someone who had lived two or three lifetimes.
He feature in the films: Macbeth (1979), Gods and Monsters (1998) The Da Vinci Code (2006), King Lear (2008), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), and X-Men (2000), Mr. Holmes (2015), Beauty and The Beast (2017), and The Good Liar (2019) among others.
He was born in 1939 and began acting at 22 after earning his bachelor’s degree St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, in 1961.
Thanks to his role in the English Director Tyrone Guthrie’s stage drama, Coriolanus, at the Nottingham Playhouse, he had already begun making a name for himself by the age of 24.
Young McKellen’s dark hair, angular features, and penetrating gaze exuded a timeless quality that fans perceived as the look of someone who had lived two or three lifetimes.
He feature in the films: Macbeth (1979), Gods and Monsters (1998) The Da Vinci Code (2006), King Lear (2008), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), and X-Men (2000), Mr. Holmes (2015), Beauty and The Beast (2017), and The Good Liar (2019) among others.