Happy 76th Birthday Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE^[2]  You may be the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and two Critics’ Choice Awards. Plus  two Academy Award nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. And known the world over as  Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and Magneto in the X-Men films, but in our community where you have been a fearless leader and a tireless activist, you will always be known as Serena McKellen .