Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor. Beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film. He received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. In 1989, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his role as Lenny in Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in a West End production of King Lear in 1998. For his television roles, he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear (1998) and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003).

He gained recognition for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968), winning the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the BAFTA Award for his role as athletics coach Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and The Aviator (2004). He gained wider recognition for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007).

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