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Sir Ian Murray McKellen, (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, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. McKellen's work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His most well known film roles include Gandalf in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'' trilogies and Magneto in the ''X-Men'' films. McKellen was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979, knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts, and made a Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality, in the 2008 New Year Honours. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in October 2014. ==Early life== McKellen was born on 25 May 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Margery Lois (née Sutcliffe) and Denis Murray McKellen, a civil engineer. He was their second child, with a sister, Jean, five years his senior.〔 Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, his family moved to Wigan. They lived there through the war and his early childhood. They relocated to Bolton in 1951, after his father had been promoted.〔 The experience of living through the war as a young child had some lasting impact on him, and he later claimed that "only after peace resumed ... did I realise that war wasn't normal."〔 In response to an interview question, when an interviewer remarked that he seemed quite calm in the aftermath of 11 September attacks, he said: "Well, darling, you forget—I slept under a steel plate until I was four years old." McKellen's father was a civil engineer and lay preacher, and was of Protestant Irish and Scottish descent.〔''Ian McKellen: an unofficial biography'', Mark Barratt, Virgin Books, 2005, p. 2〕 Both of McKellen's grandfathers were preachers, and his great-great-grandfather, James McKellen, was a "strict, evangelical Protestant minister" in Ballymena, County Antrim.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.u.tv/entertainment/Ian-McKellen-traces-roots-to-Ballymena/71222a03-8837-41ce-863b-a53974c8dddb )〕 His home environment was strongly Christian, but non-orthodox. "My upbringing was of low nonconformist Christians who felt that you led the Christian life in part by behaving in a Christian manner to everybody you met." When he was 12, his mother died; his father died when he was 24. Of his coming out of the closet to his stepmother, Gladys McKellen, who was a member of the Religious Society of Friends, he said, "Not only was she not fazed, but as a member of a society which declared its indifference to people's sexuality years back, I think she was just glad for my sake that I wasn't lying anymore." McKellen attended Bolton School (Boys' Division),〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.boltonschool.com/senior-boys/old-boys/famous-old-boltonians )〕 of which he is still a supporter, attending regularly to talk to pupils. McKellen's acting career started at Bolton Little Theatre, of which he is now the patron.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bolton Little Theatre )〕 An early fascination with the theatre was encouraged by his parents, who took him on a family outing to ''Peter Pan'' at the Opera House in Manchester when he was three.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mckellen.com/life/per.htm )〕 When he was nine, his main Christmas present was a wood and bakelite, fold-away Victorian theatre from Pollocks Toy Theatres, with cardboard scenery and wires to push on the cut-outs of Cinderella and of Laurence Olivier's Hamlet.〔 His sister took him to his first Shakespeare play, ''Twelfth Night'', by the amateurs of Wigan's Little Theatre, shortly followed by their ''Macbeth'' and Wigan High School for Girls' production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', with music by Mendelssohn, with the role of Bottom played by Jean McKellen, who continued to act, direct, and produce amateur theatre until her death.〔J. W. Braun, ''The Lord of the Films'' (ECW Press, 2009)〕 When he was 18 years old, McKellen won a scholarship to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read English literature.〔''Inside the Actors Studio''. Bravo. 8 December 2002. No. 5, season 9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian McKellen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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