Sir Patrick Stewart is an English actor whose career has spanned seven decades in theatre, film, television and video games. He has received accolades throughout his career including two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama in 2010.
Stewart in October 2023
Stewart with Star Trek co-star Brent Spiner in 2010
Stewart with co-star Hugh Jackman at the 2017 world premiere of Logan
Stewart signing autographs following a production of Hamlet at the RSC in July 2008
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed around 1607, by the King's Men at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre. Its first appearance in print was in the First Folio published in 1623, under the title The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra.
Cleopatra: "Sooth, la, I'll help: Thus it must be." Antony and Cleopatra 4.4/11 (Edwin Austin Abbey, 1909)
Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse (1888)
In this Baroque vision, Battle of Actium by Laureys a Castro (1672), Cleopatra flees, lower left, in a barge with a figurehead of Fortuna.
Cleopatra and the Peasant, Eugène Delacroix (1838)