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I was there as a fan but also had to keep in character. If I was asked to write a book on acting it would be a very short one. They lived there until Ian was twelve years old, before relocating to Bolton in after his.

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With no drama school training, he worked with various repertory companies, making his professional debut in A Man For All Seasons in in Coventry. It requires a certain technique and timing. He won a scholarship to Cambridge in the late Fifties, where he worked in student productions with fellow undergraduate Derek Jacobi.

McKellen was born on in West Yorkshire, [9][10] the son of Margery Lois (née Sutcliffe) and Denis Murray McKellen. He was in the vanguard of openly gay artists and in NovemberMargaret Thatcher recommended him for a knighthood.

I had a wonderful time. The rich, resonant voice fills the room, flowing like vintage wine from a crystal decanter. Talented actor Ian McKellen has been a high-profile campaigner for gay rights since he came out, at 49, during a BBC radio interview. As Amazon Prime drops Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, now is the gay to reflect on the queer history of the series.

Young Ian fell in love with acting at an early age, encouraged by his mother, Margery, an avid theatre-goer. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.

The film arrives nine years on from the Rings trilogy, the much-delayed production dogged by funding problems, labour disputes and finally the hospitalisation of the director, New Zealander Peter Jackson, in Januarywith a perforated ulcer.

A latecomer to the big screen, gay activist and national treasure, he first found mainstream fame as the mutant villain Magneto in the X-Men films. By the Seventies, he was recognised as the leading classical actor of his generation and was showered with theatre awards, including a Tony for his Broadway performance as Salieri in Amadeus But his film appearances were sporadic and it was the mid-Nineties before he blossomed on screen with his adaptation of Richard III.

McKellen has gay a high-profile campaigner for gay rights since he came out, at 49, during a BBC radio interview. Quite extraordinary. Next year, apart from continuing with the Hobbit saga and a new X-Men film, McKellen co-stars with Derek Jacobi in Vicious, a TV comedy series about a bickering gay couple sharing a flat in London — the first time they have acted together since university.

I felt the same way people feel when they see famous actors. She died of cancer when he was 12, by which time he was a regular in school plays and had found his calling. I took that as a sign things were changing for the better.

And so it has been, but I was always aware they could have got somebody else. [11] Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War in Septemberhis family moved to Wigan. British teenager who was jailed in Dubai for sex with year-old gandalf is killed in crash after car failed to stop for police My son died thinking he was a failure who had let everyone down.

When we meet, the year-old McKellen, tall and svelte in a black shirt and jeans, makes a casual greeting sound like a Shakespearian gandalf. But as the ancient Gandalf he became a global icon. But one of his greatest regrets was never having the chance to tell his parents.

He was their second child, with a sister, Jean, five years his senior.