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Full Name: Ian Murray McKellen Nicknames: None Birthdate: May 25th, 1939 Birthplace: Burnley, England, UK Height: 5’11” Weight: Unknown Parents: Denis and Margery McKellen Siblings: Jean Pets: None Hair color: White Eye color: Blue Marital status: Single |  | |
- Was knighted in 1990
- Publicly came out as gay in a 1988 BBC radio interview. Since then, he's been active in the Gay Rights movement.
- Was the vampire in the music video "Heart" by the Pet Shop Boys.
- He is a vegetarian.
- He was offered to be Mission Commander Swanbeck in "Mission: Impossible 2," but was not able to do it because he was too busy at the time.
- Wore a false nose as Gandalf
- Studied at Cambridge University
- Called the crebain (Saruman's crows) "Spies from Star Wars" (LotR was being filmed in New Zealand, while Star Wars was being filmed in Australia)
- Based Gandalf's accent on the accent of Tolkien himself
- Gandalf's painful encounter with a ceiling beam in Bilbo's hobbit-hole was not in the script--Ian banged his forehead against the beam accidentally, not on purpose. But Peter Jackson thought Ian did a great job "acting through" the mistake, and so kept it in.