Plenty

…a screenwriter for his 1985 film adaptation of Plenty. In 1994 he adapted for film The Secret Rapture (1988), his play exploring the complex relationship between two sisters. In addition, he helmed the films Wetherby (1985) and Strapless (1989), for which he penned the screenplays. He wrote and directed Page…

…film version of David Hare’s Plenty (1985) and Richard III (1995), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play that is set in a fictionalized version of England in the 1930s; McKellen also cowrote the screenplay. In 1998 he portrayed director James Whale in Gods and Monsters, for which he received his first…

…critically well-received turn in the film version of David Hare’s play Plenty (1985). Her other film credits included Household Saints and Mel Brooks’s Robin Hood: Men in Tights (both 1993), Woody Allen’s Bullets over Broadway (1994), Into the Woods (2014), and the