Hollywood icon Sir Ian McKellen's three-week stint on ITV's Coronation Street in 2005 was hailed as the turning point by ...

and as Magneto in the X-Men movies – Sir Ian McKellen has never won an Academy Award. He has had a couple of nominations though; in 1999 for his leading role as film director James Whale in ...

Ian McKellen first appeared on stage in 1964’s A Scent of Flowers before going to star in such Shakespeare classics as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. He won his one and only Tony Award ...

Sir Ian McKellen revealed he had only ever got one University Challenge question right as he awarded the winners their plaque ...

English actor Ian McKellen called on closeted gay actors ... noted that there has never been an openly gay Academy Award ...

He received 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: Acting Shakespeare (1984). He returned to ...

Actor Ian McKellen chooses a Dickens adaptation by ... At the Society of West End Theatre Awards (now the Oliviers), it won six awards: Rees as best actor, Threlfall and Suzanne Bertish as best ...

1981 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Ian McKellen won. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Tim Curry was nominated but did not win.