Ian McKellen
Long considered one of the finest British stage actors, Ian McKellen has defied conventional wisdom which posits that being openly homosexual would either pigeonhole you or destroy your career. In fact, since his 1988 decision to "come out" during a BBC radio broadcast, he not only has been knighted for his services to the theater (in 1991) but found himself an unlikely movie star.
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