Sir Leigh Teabing KBE is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based upon it. In the film, he was portrayed by Sir Ian McKellen. Teabing is a British Royal Historian, a Knight of the Realm, Grail scholar, and friend of Harvard professor Robert Langdon. Independently wealthy, he lives outside Paris in a ch Show less «