Come out. Get into the sunshine. These are not empty words from the Richard III star. Within a year of coming out himself, at the age of 48 in 1988, Ian McKellen helped co-found Stonewall ...

So why, after actor Richard Harris passed away in 2002 after filming the first two Harry Potter films, was Ian McKellen (a.k.a. Gandalf) not considered to replace him? Well, it turns out he was.

Noting that there has never been an openly gay recipient of Best Actor at the Oscars, Ian McKellen compared closeted actors to closeted male sports players. Older man with a white beard holding a ...

This Richard III is part of an eight-and-a-half-hour cycle of Shakespeare’s eight history plays, which Ryan has dubbed The Player Kings. He points to the difference made by the play following the ...

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are set to reprise their X-Men roles in Avengers: Doomsday. Marvel kicked off a live stream on Wednesday to announce the long list of actors who will star in the ...