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One of the most prestigious accolades that a British native can receive is a damehood or a knighthood from a member of the royal family. Queen Elizabeth II, her children and her grandchildren are ...
This category comprises male actors or performers who have been knighted (either Knight Bachelor or Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), including honorary knighthoods (i.e. Fairbanks, Hope, Milligan).
Many people have been created honorary knights or dames by the British crown.There are also those that have been appointed to two comparable orders, the Order of Merit and the Order of the Companions of Honour, and those that have had conferred on them the decoration of the Royal Victorian Chain; none of these carries pre-nominal styles.
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. With a career spanning more than sixty years, he is noted for his roles on the screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in ...
Roger Deakins, the Oscar-winning 1917 cinematographer, has been knighted in the Queen’s New Year Honors list as the British monarch celebrated the careers of behind the scenes talent in the film ...
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 for services to drama. [1] [2] Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear.
McKellen was knighted for his services to the performing arts in 1991, and the queen personally made him Companion of Honour for his services to drama and equality in 2008.
In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards, winning three times for A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), A View from the Bridge (1987) and Man of the Moment ...