Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart | |
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_(53275039331)_(cropped).jpg) Stewart in 2023 | |
| Born | Patrick Hewes Stewart[1] 13 July 1940 Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 28 October 2026 (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1959–2026 |
| Spouse(s) | Sheila Falconer (m. 1966–1990) Wendy Neuss (m. 2000–2003) Sonny Ozell (m. 2013) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Alfred Stewart Gladys (née Barrowclough) |
| Awards | Best Spoken Word Album for Children 1996 Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor 2007 Macbeth |
| Website | http://www.patrickstewart.org |
Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart (13 July 1940 – 28 October 2026) was an English actor. He was the Chancellor of University of Huddersfield from 2004 to 2015.[2]
He was also a Shakespearean actor who spent 16 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company,[3] but is known for playing the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also played Professor X in the X-Men movies (2000-2017). He was given a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in her New Years Honours at the start of 2010, and then became "Sir Patrick Stewart".[3]
Life
Patrick Stewart was born in England in 1940. Five years later, his father came back from the war with PTSD and started to get drunk and beat Patrick’s mother.[source?]
According to the documentary The Captains, when Patrick Stewart was twelve, his teacher had his class read The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and asked him to play Shylock the Jew. After that, Stewart decided he wanted to be an actor.
When Patrick Stewart was fourteen, his Headmaster had him beaten for something he didn’t do and Stewart was angry about it. [1] When he was fifteen, he dropped out of school to start acting but made money from working for a newspaper. [2] His boss told him to choose between journalism and acting, so Stewart quit journalism. He then started selling furniture and, when he was seventeen, he went to an acting school. It was there that he met Brian Blessed.
Career
When he was nineteen, Stewart played a minor character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac. Then he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and was in plays with Ian Richardson and Ben Kingsley. He played Galileo in a play about Galileo and he played Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. He also played characters in Hamlet, Henry V, and The Taming of the Shrew. After being in those plays, he played a character in an episode of a television show called Coronation Street. Then, he went back to plays and played characters in King Lear and in Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson.
He then played Horatio from Hamlet on television. After that, Stewart went back to plays and played characters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He also played a character in a Norwegian play.
Then, Stewart played Vladimir Lenin in a television show about Russian history, he played a Roman general in a Television movie based on Antony and Cleopatra, and he played Clement Attlee in a Television movie about Sir Winston Churchill.
Stewart then played Sejanus in I, Claudius, based on the book by Robert Graves, he played Shakespeare in a play, he played Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he narrated a kid’s show, he played a character in the movie Henessy and another character in a movie based on a play he was in.
Stewart played Claudius in a Hamlet movie, he was in a Little Lord Fauntleroy movie, he played Guinevere’s father in the movie Excalibur, and then played Gurney Halleck in the movie Dune.
Star Trek
In 1987, Stewart started playing Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation though he originally didn’t believe it would last longer than the pilot episode. Stewart was asked to play Jafar in Alladin but said no. He still played Richard the Lionheart in Robin Hood: Men in Tights and played Picard in the first two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He then played Picard in the movies Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, and Star Trek: Insurrection. He also played Seti in The Prince of Egypt.
X-Men
In 2000, Stewart played Professor X in the movie X-Men. He then played the evil King Goobot in Jimmy Neutron and played Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis. Stewart played Professor X again in X-2 and in X-Men: The Last Stand. He also played him in the epilogue of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He then played William Shakespeare in Gnomeo & Juliet (a parody of Romeo and Juliet).
After that, Stewart played a character in Ice Age: Continental Drift and played Professor X in The Wolverine. He played a future version of Professor X who uses time travel to help his younger self in X-Men: Days of Future Past and played the Poop emoji in The Emoji Movie. Then Stewart played Professor X in Logan and Professor X died in that movie.
Return to Star Trek
After Logan, Stewart went back to Star Trek. He played Picard in a new show called Star Trek: Picard.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Stewart then played a version of Professor X from another universe in Dr. Strange 2 and played a sheep in The Sheep Detectives. He played Professor X again in some scenes of Avengers: Doomsday.
Death
Stewart died on 28 October 2026 from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia at his home in Los Angeles, California, aged 86.[4][5]
Movies
Patrick Stewart Media
Stewart as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1976
Stewart with Brent Spiner in 2010
Stewart with co-star Hugh Jackman at the 2017 world premiere of Logan
Stewart with actors Ian McKellen and Billy Crudup at a September 2013 press event at Sardi's restaurant for Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land
Stewart at the 2012 Peabody Awards
Stewart's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Stewart at the Metropolitan Opera's opening night of Das Rheingold, 2010
References
- ↑ People of Today: Debrett, London, 2007
- ↑ Welcome from our Chancellor Patrick Stewart. www.hud.ac.ukUniversity of Huddersfield. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Status Quo stars and Formula One champion honoured" (in English). BBC News. December 31, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8435197.stm. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ↑ "Patrick Stewart Dead: 'Star Trek,' 'X-Men' Star". The Hollywood Reporter. 29 October 2026. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/patrick-stewart-dead-star-trek-x-men-1236742932/. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ Gates, Anita; McDonald, William (29 October 2026). "Patrick Stewart, Captain Picard on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation," Dies" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
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