![]() These were followed shortly after by a Wigan High School for Girls production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which Jean McKellen played Bottom she went on to act, produce, and direct amateur theatre until her death in November 2003.Īt eighteen years old he won a scholarship to read English Literature in St Catharine’s, Cambridge and, while there, he joined the Marlowe Society to follow his love of acting and, as he correctly sensed, he would get to meet the colleges’ other queers. His love of theatre was engendered by his family with a trip to see Peter Pan at the Opera House, Manchester but his older sister Jean introduced him to Shakespeare with trips to see the Wigan Little Theatre’s amateur productions of Twelfth Night and Macbeth. Can you imagine trying to have success as an actor if you’re called that?” Shakespeare Days ![]() ![]() Carlton said, “You know, my real surname, it’s not Carlton at all. His reply was, “Well, darling, you forget - I slept under a steel plate until I was four years old.”Īnd it was those early years that shaped the talent that is Ian McKellen… NOT McKellern or McKellan! He did wonder about adopting an easier-to-spell stage name until he remembered working with actor Timothy Carlton just after the birth of his first child, Benedict. In a similar way to children now being a bit disconcerted seeing old footage of people shaking hands and not wearing masks, he was asked why he was so calm in the aftermath of the 11th September attacks. In the way that young children get used to their situation, McKellen says that he got used to living in a wartime situation and only realized what ‘normality’ was when peace resumed. To be more precise it was Burnley, Lancashire and 25th May 1939. Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE was born in the NorthWest of England just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Download the RunPee app for free: Read more about the RunPee app.ĭr. ![]()
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