Patrick Stewart

Known for ActingBorn 1940-07-13Died 2026-10-28Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Sir Patrick Stewart (13 July 1940 – 28 October 2026) was an English actor. With a career spanning over 60 years on stage and screen, he received various accolades, including two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Award, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 2010. In 1966, Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and made his Broadway debut in 1971 in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1979, he received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his West End performance in Antony and Cleopatra. His first television role was on Coronation Street in 1967. His first major screen roles were the television series Fall of Eagles (1974), I, Claudius (1976) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). In 2008, he reprised his role as King Claudius in Hamlet and received his second Laurence Olivier Award and his first Tony Award nomination for the West End and Broadway theatre productions. Stewart gained international attention for his lead role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), a role he reprised in a series of four films (1994–2002) and Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023). He starred in the USA Network miniseries Moby Dick (1998), the TNT fantasy television film A Christmas Carol (1999), and the Showtime drama television film The Lion in Winter (2003). He was Emmy-nominated for his comedic guest roles on Frasier (2003, NBC) and Extras (2005, BBC). Stewart also collaborated regularly with comedian Seth MacFarlane throughout the 2010s, for whom he starred as the lead of the sitcom Blunt Talk (2015–2016, Starz), the voice of CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock on American Dad! (2005–2026), a minor voice role in A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), and the narrator of the two Ted films (2012, 2015). In cinema, Stewart garnered further stardom as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series (2000–2017), reprising the role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2022, 2026), with his appearance in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) being his final film appearance. He also performed in Hedda (1975), Excalibur (1981), Dune (1984), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), Jeffrey (1995), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), Green Room (2015), The Kid Who Would Be King (2019), and The Sheep Detectives (2026). Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Stewart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Space Age

Playing Shakespeare

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command

From Here to Infinity: The Ultimate Voyage

The Shape of the World

Red Dwarf A–Z

A Question Of Faith

Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act

Cosmos

The Shakespeare Sessions

Butterfly in the Sky

Futurama

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Reading Rainbow

The Sheep Detectives

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Unification

Mountain Gorilla

Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie

E! True Hollywood Story

Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event

Logan

Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

Whales: An Unforgettable Journey

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

North and South

Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real

In the Company of Whales

The Simpsons

Civilisation

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Devil's Disciple

Extras

Liberation

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

MGM: When the Lion Roars

Maybury

Death Zone: Cleaning Mount Everest

Earth

The Gathering Storm

National Theatre Live: No Man's Land

The Plague Dogs

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Story Parade

Frasier

Top Gear

If We Had No Moon