Ian McKellen (1939)
95.2 TOPICAL actor score · #9 of 1,977 actors
Ian McKellen (1939) has a TOPICAL actor score of 95.2 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are prime and their movies. They've won 7 acting honours from 10 nominations, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Their best ten-year run was 1998-2007. Best films: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
- Acting honours7 wins, 10 nominations - incl. Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role; European Film Award for Best Actor
- Prime1998-2007
- Credits70 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 19 scored films (9 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 91 languages
“Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actors, he is noted for his versatile roles on stage and screen, in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
Ian McKellen's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | 2 |
| 15 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | 2 |
| 50 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | 2 |
| 859 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | 1 |
| 948 | X-Men | 2000 | 3 |
| 1,059 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | 5 |
| 1,120 | Gods and Monsters | 1998 | 1 |
| 1,245 | X2 | 2003 | 3 |
| 1,266 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 2014 | 1 |
| 1,708 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | 2 |
| 1,830 | Richard III | 1995 | 1 |
| 1,838 | Flushed Away | 2006 | 3 |
| 2,710 | Six Degrees of Separation | 1993 | 4 |
| 2,748 | The Da Vinci Code | 2006 | 3 |
| 2,776 | X-Men: The Last Stand | 2006 | 3 |
| 3,064 | Mr. Holmes | 2015 | 1 |
| 3,385 | The Golden Compass | 2007 | 6 |
| 3,572 | Restoration | 1995 | 7 |
| 6,511 | Cats | 2019 | 7 |