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Sir

Patrick Stewart

OBE
Patrick Stewart Photo Call Logan Berlinale 2017 (cropped).jpg
Stewart at the Berlin Film Festival on 17 February 2017
Born (1940-07-13) 13 July 1940 (age 78)
Mirfield, Yorkshire, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materBristol Old Vic Theatre School
Occupation
  • Actor
  • voice actor
Years active1959–present
Political partyLabour
Spouse(s)
Children2

Sir Patrick Stewart OBE (born 13 July 1940)[1] is an English actor whose work has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades. He has been nominated for Olivier, Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, and Saturn Awards throughout his career.

Beginning his career with a long run with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stewart received the 1979 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Antony and Cleopatra in the West End. Stewart's first major screen roles were in BBC-broadcast television productions during the mid-late 1970s, including Hedda, and the I, Claudius miniseries.

From the 1980s onward, Stewart began working in American television and film, with prominent leading roles such as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its successor films, as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men series of superhero films, the lead of the Starz TV series Blunt Talk, and voice roles such as CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock in American Dad! and the narrator in Ted. Having remained with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 2008 Stewart played King Claudius in Hamlet in the West End and won a second Olivier Award.

In 1993, TV Guide named Stewart the Best Dramatic Television Actor of the 1980s.[2] He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 16 December 1996. In 2010, Stewart was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.

Early life[edit]

Stewart attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in his youth.

Patrick Stewart was born on 13 July 1940[3][4] in Mirfield,[5] in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (née Barrowclough), a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a regimental sergeant major in the British Army. He has two older brothers, Geoffrey (b. 28 January 1925, Mirfield) and Trevor (b. 10 August 1935, Mirfield).[6][7][8] His parents did not give him a middle name, but he used the middle name "Hewes" professionally for a while in the 1980s.[9]

Stewart grew up in a poor household with domestic violence from his father, an experience which later influenced his political and ideological beliefs.[10] He spent much of his childhood in Jarrow.[11] Stewart's father served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and was regimental sergeant major of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment during the Second World War, having previously worked as a general labourer and as a postman.[12] As a result of his wartime experience during the Dunkirk evacuation, his father suffered from what was then known as combat fatigue (related to what is now known as post-traumatic stress disorder). In a 2008 interview, Stewart said, "My father was a very potent individual, a very powerful man, who got what he wanted. It was said that when he strode onto the parade ground, birds stopped singing. It was many, many years before I realised how my father inserted himself into my work. I've grown a moustache for Macbeth. My father didn't have one, but when I looked in the mirror just before I went on stage I saw my father's face staring straight back at me."[13]

Stewart attended Crowlees Church of England Junior and Infants School.[14] He attributes his acting career to his English teacher, Cecil Dormand, who "put a copy of Shakespeare in my hand [and] said, 'Now get up on your feet and perform."[15] In 1951, aged 11, having failed the eleven-plus examination, he entered Mirfield Secondary Modern School,[16][17] where he continued to study drama. Around the same time he met the actor Brian Blessed at a Mytholmroyd drama course, and the two have been friends ever since.[18]

At the age of 15, Stewart left school and increased his participation in local theatre. He gained a job as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer at the Mirfield & District Reporter,[19] but after a year his employer gave him an ultimatum to choose acting or journalism,[20] and he left the job. His brother tells the story that Stewart had been attending rehearsals during work time and then inventing the stories he reported. Stewart also trained as a boxer.[19] Stewart reported that acting served as a means of self-expression in his youth.[21] Both Stewart and his friend Blessed later received grants to attend the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[22]

Career[edit]

Early acting career (1966–1987)[edit]

Following a period with Manchester's Library Theatre, he became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, remaining with them until 1982. He was an associate artist of the company in 1968.[23] He appeared with actors such as Ben Kingsley and Ian Richardson. In January 1967, he made his debut TV appearance on Coronation Street as a fire officer. In 1969, he had a brief TV cameo role as Horatio, opposite Ian Richardson's Hamlet, in a performance of the gravedigger scene as part of episode six of Sir Kenneth Clark's Civilisation television series.[24] He made his Broadway debut as Snout in Peter Brook's legendary[25] production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, then moved to the Royal National Theatre in the early 1980s.

Over the years, Stewart took roles in many major television series without ever becoming a household name. He appeared as Vladimir Lenin in Fall of Eagles; Sejanus in I, Claudius;[26] Karla in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People; Claudius in a 1980 BBC adaptation of Hamlet. He even took the romantic male lead in the 1975 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (wearing a hairpiece). He also took the lead, playing psychiatric consultant Dr Edward Roebuck in BBC's Maybury in 1981. Stewart continued to play minor roles in films, such as King Leondegrance in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981),[26] the character Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's film version of Dune (1984)[26] and Dr. Armstrong in Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985).

Stewart preferred classical theatre to other genres, asking Doctor Who actress Lalla Ward why she would work in science fiction or on television.[27] In 1987, he nonetheless agreed to work in Hollywood on a revival of an old science-fiction television show, after Robert H. Justman saw him while attending a literary reading at UCLA.[28][29] Stewart knew nothing about the original show, Star Trek, or its iconic status in American culture. He was reluctant to sign the standard contract of six years but did so as he, his agent, and others with whom Stewart consulted, all believed that the new show would quickly fail, and he would return to his London stage career after making some money.[30][31][32][33] While in Hollywood, he briefly took a middle name, "Hewes", to differentiate himself from another Patrick Stewart who was already a member of the Screen Actors Guild.[34]

Film and TV career[edit]

Star Trek: The Next Generation[edit]

When Stewart was picked for the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–94), the Los Angeles Times called him an "unknown British Shakespearean actor". Still living out of his suitcase because of his scepticism that the show would succeed,[33] Stewart was unprepared for the long schedule of television production[32] that began at 4:45 am each day.[28] He initially experienced difficulty fitting in with his less-disciplined castmates,[30] saying that his "spirits used to sink" when required to memorise and recite technobabble.[32] Stewart eventually came to better understand the cultural differences between the stage and television,[30] and his favourite technical line became "space-time continuum".[32] He remained close friends with his fellow Star Trek actors[30] and became their advocate with the producers when necessary.[33] Marina Sirtis credited Stewart with "at least 50%, if not more" of the show's success because others imitated his professionalism and dedication to acting.[35]

It really wasn't until the first season ended [when] I went to my first Star Trek convention ... [I] had expected that I would be standing in front of a few hundred people and found that there were two and a half thousand people and that they already knew more about me than I could ever possibly have believed.

Stewart, on when he realised he had become famous[32]

Stewart unexpectedly became wealthy because of the show's success.[31] In 1992, during a break in filming, Stewart calculated that he earned more during that break than from 10 weeks of Woolf in London.[28] From 1994 to 2002, he also portrayed Picard in the films Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002); and in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's pilot episode "Emissary", and received a 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series".

When asked in 2011 for the highlight of his career, he chose Star Trek: The Next Generation, because "it changed everything [for me]."[36] He has also said he is very proud of his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, for its social message and educational impact on young viewers. When questioned about the significance of his role compared to his distinguished Shakespearean career, Stewart has said that: "The fact is all of those years in Royal Shakespeare Company – playing all those kings, emperors, princes and tragic heroes – were nothing but preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."[37] The accolades Stewart has received include the readers of TV Guide in 1992 choosing him with Cindy Crawford, of whom he had never heard, as television's "most bodacious" man and woman.[38][39][21] In an interview with Michael Parkinson, he expressed gratitude for Gene Roddenberry's response to a reporter who said, "Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century," to which Roddenberry replied, "In the 24th century, they wouldn't care."[40][41]

"It came to a point where I had no idea where Picard began and I ended. We completely overlapped. His voice became my voice, and there were other elements of him that became me" ... No director in Hollywood wanted to cast this grand, deep-voiced, bald English guy because everybody knew he was Picard and couldn't possibly be anybody else. In the event, he effectively reprised the part as Professor Charles Xavier – a grand, deep-voiced, bald English guy – in the X-Men films.

– Interview, The Times [31]

Star Trek continuation[edit]

On 4 August 2018, CBS and Stewart jointly announced that he would be reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series. In a prepared statement, Stewart said he and the new show's producers would "endeavour to bring a fresh, unexpected and pertinent story to life once more."[42][43]

X-Men film series[edit]

The success of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV and film franchises typecast Stewart as Picard and obtaining other roles became difficult.[31][44] He also found returning to the stage difficult because of his long departure.[31] He commented that he would never have joined The Next Generation had he known that it would air for seven years: "No, no. NO. And looking back now it still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else."[32]

However, in the late 1990s he accepted a key role in the big-budget X-Men film series, as Professor Charles Xavier, founder and mentor of the superhero team, a role similar in many ways to Picard.[31] He was initially reluctant to sign on to another movie franchise, but his interest in working with director Bryan Singer persuaded him.[31] Stewart has played the role in seven feature films (X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Logan) and voiced the role in several video games (X-Men Legends, X-Men Legends II, and X-Men: Next Dimension). Stewart announced that he was leaving the X-Men film franchise after Logan, which was the final time he played the role.[45]

Documentaries[edit]

In 2011, Stewart appeared in the feature-length documentary The Captains alongside William Shatner (who played Star Trek Captain James Kirk) – Shatner also wrote and directed the film. In the film, Shatner interviews actors who have portrayed captains within the Star Trek franchise. The film pays a great deal of attention to Shatner's interviews with Stewart at his home in Oxfordshire, as well as at a Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada; Stewart reveals the fear and personal failings that came along with his tenure as a Starfleet captain, and also the great triumphs he believes accompanied his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.[46]

Other film and television[edit]

Stewart's other film and television roles include the flamboyantly gay Sterling in the 1995 film Jeffrey and King Henry II in The Lion in Winter, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance and an Emmy Award nomination for executive-producing the film. He portrayed Captain Ahab in the 1998 made-for-television film version of Moby Dick, receiving an Emmy Award nomination[47] and Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance. He also starred as Scrooge in a 1999 television film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for his performance.

In late 2003, during the 11th and final season of NBC's Frasier, Stewart appeared on the show as a gay Seattle socialite and opera director, who mistakes Frasier for a potential lover. In July 2003, he appeared in Series 2 (Episode 09) of Top Gear in the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car segment, achieving a time of 1:50 in the Liana. In 2005, he was cast as Professor Ian Hood in an ITV thriller 4-episode series Eleventh Hour, created by Stephen Gallagher. The first episode was broadcast on 19 January 2006. He also, in 2005, played Captain Nemo in a two-part adaptation of The Mysterious Island. Stewart also appeared as a nudity-obsessed caricature of himself in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's television series Extras. In late 2018, it was announced that Stewart will play John Bosley in the 2019 film Charlie's Angels, slated for release on 27 September 2019.[48]

Stage (1990–present)[edit]

After The Next Generation began, Stewart soon found that he missed acting on the stage.[31] Although he remained associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the lengthy filming for the series had prevented him from participating in most other works, leaving a "gaping hole" of many years in his CV as a Shakespearean actor, causing him to miss opportunities to play such notable roles as Hamlet, Romeo, and Richard III.[31][30] Instead, Stewart began writing one-man shows that he performed in California universities and acting schools. One of these—a version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in which he portrayed all 40-plus characters—became ideal for him as an actor as well, because of its limited performing schedule.[49]

In 1991, Stewart performed it on Broadway,[31] receiving a nomination for that year's Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show.[50] He staged encore Broadway performances in 1992 and 1994, with the 1993 run held in London and the 1996 production in Los Angeles. Stewart brought the show back to Broadway in 2001, with all proceeds going to charity – and the show of 28 December's revenue, specifically, going to the 11 September campaign of the Actors Fund of America.[51] A 23-day run re-opened in London's West End in December 2005. For his performances in this play, Stewart has received the Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Performance in 1992 and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment for Solo Performance in 1994. He was also the co-producer of the show, through the company he set up for the purpose: Camm Lane Productions, a reference to his birthplace in Camm Lane, Mirfield.

Stewart with actors Ian McKellen and Billy Crudup at a 24 September 2013 press event at Sardi's restaurant for Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land

Shakespeare roles during this period included Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest, on Broadway in 1995, a role he would reprise in Rupert Goold's 2006 production of The Tempest as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival.[52] In 1997, he took the role of Othello with the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) in a race-bending performance, in a "photo negative" production of a white Othello with an otherwise all-black cast. Stewart had wanted to play the title role since the age of 14, so he and director Jude Kelly inverted the play so Othello became a comment on a white man entering a black society.[53][54]

[London theatre] critics ... have showered him with perhaps the highest compliment they can conjure. He has, they say, overcome the technique-destroying indignity of being a major American television star.

The New York Times, 2008[30]

He played Antony again opposite Harriet Walter's Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the Novello Theatre in London in 2007 to excellent reviews.[30] During this period, Stewart also addressed the Durham Union Society on his life in film and theatre. When Stewart began playing Macbeth in the West End in 2007, some said that he was too old for the role; he and the show again received excellent reviews, with one critic calling Stewart "one of our finest Shakespearean actors".[31][30] He was named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at St Catherine's College, Oxford in January 2007.[55] In 2008, Stewart played King Claudius in Hamlet alongside David Tennant. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for the part. When collecting his award, he dedicated the award "in part" to Tennant and Tennant's understudy Edward Bennett, after Tennant's back injury and subsequent absence from four weeks of Hamlet disqualified him from an Olivier nomination.[56]

In 2009, Stewart appeared alongside Ian McKellen as the lead duo of Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), in Waiting for Godot. Stewart had previously appeared only once alongside McKellen on stage, but the pair had developed a close friendship while waiting around on set filming the X-Men films.[57] Stewart stated that performing in this play was the fulfilment of a 50-year ambition, having seen Peter O'Toole appear in it at the Bristol Old Vic while Stewart was just 17.[57] Reviewers stated that his interpretation captured well the balance between humour and despair that characterises the work.[58]

Voice acting[edit]

Stewart at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon 2012

Known for his strong and authoritative voice, Stewart has lent his voice to a number of projects. He has narrated recordings of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (winning a Grammy), Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (which had also been narrated by William Shatner[59]), C. S. Lewis's The Last Battle (conclusion of the series The Chronicles of Narnia), Rick Wakeman's Return to the Centre of the Earth; as well as numerous TV programmes such as High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman. Stewart provided the narration for Nine Worlds, an astronomical tour of the solar system and nature documentaries such as The Secret of Life on Earth and Mountain Gorilla.[60] He is also heard as the voice of the Magic Mirror in Disneyland's live show, Snow White – An Enchanting Musical. He also was the narrator for the American release of Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. He is narrator for two fulldome video shows produced and distributed by Loch Ness Productions, called MarsQuest and The Voyager Encounters.

He also was a voice actor on the animated films The Prince of Egypt, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Chicken Little, The Pagemaster, the English dubbings of the Japanese anime films Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, by Hayao Miyazaki, and Steamboy, by Katsuhiro Otomo, and The Emoji Movie. He supported his home town of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire by lending his voice to a series of videos on the town in 1999. He voiced the pig Napoleon in a made-for-TV film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm and guest starred in the Simpsons episode "Homer the Great" as Number One. Stewart also recorded a narration planned for the prologue and epilogue for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas but the final movie use another voice (the original narration appears only on the first edition of the film's soundtrack).

He plays a recurring role as CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock, lending his likeness as well as his voice on the animated series American Dad!. He has made (as of 6 August 2011) nine guest appearances on Family Guy in various roles: first in "Peter's Got Woods", second in "No Meals on Wheels" when Peter likens something to when he once swapped voices with him for a day, third in "Lois Kills Stewie" as his American Dad! character Bullock, fourth in "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" as himself, fifth in "And Then There Were Fewer" as a cat that proclaims himself a professor, sixth in "Halloween on Spooner Street" as Dick Pump, seventh in "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair" as Susie Swanson and eighth in the DVD version of It's A Trap! as Captain Picard. He also appears as a guest character in the mobile game Family Guy: The Quest For Stuff's Comicon event. To unlock him, you need to give him 1,000 Blam! drinks, 10 wizard books and 15 pizza slices before 8 September 2014. Stewart also appears as narrator in Seth MacFarlane's 2012 film directorial debut, Ted. In 2006, Stewart voiced Bambi's father, the Great Prince of the Forest in Disney's direct-to-video sequel, Bambi II.

He lent his voice to the Activision-produced Star Trek computer games Star Trek: Armada, Armada II, Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, Star Trek: Invasion, Bridge Commander, and Elite Force II, all reprising his role as Captain Picard. Stewart reprised his role as Picard in Star Trek: Legacy for both PC and Xbox 360, along with the four other 'major' Starfleet captains from the different Star Trek series.

In addition to voicing his characters from Star Trek and X-Men in several related computer and video games, Stewart worked as a voice actor on games unrelated to both franchises, such as Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for which in 2006 he won a Spike TV Video Game Award[61] for his work as Emperor Uriel Septim. He also lent his voice to several editions of the Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.

His voice talents also appeared in a number of commercials including the UK TV adverts for the relaunch of TSB Bank, Domestos bleach and Moneysupermarket.com, an advertisement for Shell fuel and an American advertisement for the prescription drug Crestor. He also voiced the UK and Australian TV advertisements for the PAL version of Final Fantasy XII.[62]

Stewart used his voice for Pontiac and Porsche cars and MasterCard Gold commercials in 1996, and Goodyear Assurance Tyres in 2004. He also did voice-overs for RCA televisions. He provided the voice of Max Winters in TMNT in March 2007. In 2008, he was also the voice of television advertisements for Currys and Stella Artois beer. Currently, he is heard during National Car Rental television spots.

He voiced the narrator of the Electronic Arts computer game, The Sims Medieval, for the game's introduction cinematic and trailer released on 22 March 2011.[63] He also voiced the story plaques and trailer of the MMOG LEGO Universe. In 2016, he narrated "The Connected Universe", a crowdfunded film directed by Malcolm Carter on the ideas of self-styled physicist Nassim Haramein.[64]

Charity work and activism[edit]

In 2006, Stewart made a short video against domestic violence for Amnesty International,[65] in which he recollected his father's physical attacks on his mother and the effect it had on him as a child. For instance, he said, "the physical harm ... [was] a shocking pain. But there are other aspects of violence which have more lasting impact psychologically on family members. It is destructive and tainting. As a child witnessing these events, one cannot simply help somehow feeling responsible for them; for the pain, and the screaming, and the misery."[66] In the same year, he gave his name to a scholarship at the University of Huddersfield, where he is Chancellor, to fund post-graduate study into domestic violence.[67][68] Stewart's childhood experience also led him to become a patron of Refuge, a UK charity for abused women.[69]

In 2009, Stewart gave a speech at the launch of Created Equal, a book about women's rights, talking again about his personal experiences with domestic violence and the impacts they had on him.[70] He remarked, "violence is a choice and it's a choice a man makes ... the lasting impact on my mother...and indeed on myself ... was extreme. Overcoming the lessons of that male stereotype that I was being shown was a struggle."[70] He now hopes to set an example of "what it has been like to be in an environment of such violence and that it can pass and that one can survive it and even though sometimes still a struggle."[70] Additionally, in October 2011, he presented a BBC Lifeline Appeal on behalf of Refuge, discussing his own experience of domestic violence and interviewing a woman whose daughter was murdered by her ex-husband.[71]

Stewart supports the armed forces charity Combat Stress, after learning about his father's post-traumatic stress disorder when researching his family genealogy for the documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?.[72] He is patron of the United Nations Association – UK, and delivered a speech at UNA-UK's UN Forum 2012 on Saturday 14 July 2012,[73] speaking of his father's experiences in the Second World War, and how he believed that the UN was the best legacy of that period.[74]

On 15 April 2018 Stewart attended the launch event of the People's Vote, a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union.[75]

Personal life[edit]

Relationships and children[edit]

Stewart at the 2010 Metropolitan Opera's opening night of Das Rheingold

Stewart and his first wife, Sheila Falconer, divorced in 1990 after 24 years of marriage.[76][77] They have two children, son Daniel and daughter Sophia.[77] Daniel is a television actor,[78] and has appeared alongside his father in the 1993 made-for-television film Death Train, and in the 1992 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light", playing his son.[n 1]

In 1997, Stewart became engaged to Wendy Neuss, one of the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. They married on 25 August 2000, and divorced three years later.[76][n 2][77]

Four months before his divorce from Neuss, Stewart played opposite actress Lisa Dillon in a production of The Master Builder, and the two were romantically involved until 2007.[79][80]

In 2008, Stewart began dating Sunny Ozell, a singer and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York, whom Stewart met while performing in Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[81] Stewart purchased a home in Park Slope, in August 2012,[82] and subsequently began living there with Ozell.[81] In March 2013, it was reported that Stewart and Ozell were engaged,[81] and they married in September 2013 with Sir Ian McKellen performing the wedding ceremony.[81][83]

Beliefs, causes and interests[edit]

Stewart has stated that his politics are rooted in a belief in fairness and equality.[10] He considers himself a socialist and is a member of the Labour Party.[21][84][85] He stated, "My father was a very strong trade unionist and those fundamental issues of Labour were ingrained into me."[84] He has been critical of the Iraq War and UK government legislation in the area of civil liberties, in particular its plans to extend detention without charge to 42 days for terrorist suspects. He signed an open letter of objection to this proposal in March 2008.[86] Stewart is a patron of Humanists UK.[87] He also identifies himself as a feminist.[88] He has publicly advocated the right to assisted suicide.[89][90] In January 2011, Stewart became a patron for Dignity in Dying and campaigns for an assisted dying law in the UK.[91]

In August 2014, Stewart was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.[92]

In 2016, Stewart, along with Benedict Cumberbatch, led more than 280 figures from the arts world who backed a vote to remain in the EU in regards to the referendum on that issue.[93]

On 2 March 2017, Stewart said he was going to apply for US citizenship in order to oppose the Trump administration.[94][95] However, in an interview by the Press Association at the British Film Institute Luminous Fundraising Gala on 3 October 2017, Stewart said that he hoped the US would pass stronger gun laws, but did not mention any intention of becoming an American citizen in furtherance of that hope.[96]

Stewart is a lifelong supporter of his local football club Huddersfield Town A.F.C.[97] He was at Wembley Stadium in 2017 when the club won promotion to the top division for the first time since 1972.[98] Since 2010, he has been president of Huddersfield Town Academy, the club's project for identifying and developing young talent.[99]

In an interview with American Theatre, he stated that "From time to time, I have fantasies of becoming a concert pianist. I've been lucky enough through the years to work very closely with the great Emanuel Ax. I've said to him that if I could switch places with anyone it would be with him."[13]

Stewart is also an avid car enthusiast; he is regularly seen at Silverstone during British Grand Prix weekends. He conducted a podium interview with the top 3 finishers in the 2017 Canadian Grand Prix.[100] On a 2003 appearance on Top Gear he set a lap time of 1 min 50 secs on the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" feature. He holds an MSA competition licence and competed in the 2012 Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge race, finishing ninth, 3m 02.808 secs behind winner Kelvin Fletcher.[101] During 2012, Stewart met his racing hero Stirling Moss for the BBC Two documentary Racing Legends.[102]

Honours[edit]

Having lived in Los Angeles for many years, Stewart moved back to England in 2004, in part to return to work in the theatre.[10] In the same year, Stewart was appointed chancellor[103] of the University of Huddersfield and subsequently as a professor of performing arts in July 2008. In this role, Stewart regularly attended graduation ceremonies in the UK and Hong Kong and teaches master classes for drama students.[104] He stepped down from the chancellorship in July 2015, and was named chancellor emeritus in the installation ceremony for his successor, Prince Andrew, Duke of York.[105] In August 2016 a building at the university was renamed the "Sir Patrick Stewart Building".[106]

Stewart was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours for services to acting and the cinema and a Knight Bachelor in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama.[107][108] Stewart's knighthood was conferred by Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 2 June 2010.[109]

In July 2011, Stewart received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of East Anglia[110][111] and in July 2014 a D.Litt. from the University of Leeds.[112] In May 2015, Stewart received an Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.[113] He is an Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.[114]

Stewart carried the Olympic torch in July 2012 as part of the official relay for the 2012 London Summer Olympics and stated it was an experience he will 'never forget', adding that it was better than any movie première.[115]

Stewart currently shares the Guinness World Record for longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero for his portrayal of Professor X with Hugh Jackman, who holds his for his portrayal of Wolverine.[116]

Theatrical performances[edit]

Royal Shakespeare Company[edit]

Patrick Stewart signing autographs following a production of Hamlet at the RSC in July 2008

Stewart has been a prolific actor in performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in more than 60 productions.[117] His first appearance was in 1966 in The Investigation and in the years that followed he became a core member of the company, taking on three or four major roles each season.[118]

Performances[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
1995 The Tempest Prospero For the New York Shakespeare Festival, with the production later transferring to Broadway
1997 Othello Othello The Shakespeare Theatre Company's (Washington, D.C.) "photo negative" production of a white Othello with an otherwise all-black cast[54][119][53]
2000 The Ride Down Mt. Morgan Lyman Felt On 9 April 2000, Stewart opened in Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan at the Broadway Ambassador Theatre.
2001 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George Edward Albee's play at the Guthrie in Minneapolis
2001 Johnson Over Jordan Robert Johnson J.B. Priestley's play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds
2003 The Master Builder Halvard Solness Henrik Ibsen's play at the Albery Theatre, London
2003 The Caretaker Davies Harold Pinter's play in Broadway's American Airlines Theatre[120]
2006 The Tempest Prospero At the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and then the Novello Theatre
2006 Antony and Cleopatra Mark Antony At the Swan Theatre, for the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the cycle performing all Shakespeare's works in a year
2007 A Christmas Carol All By Charles Dickens. Played 40 roles in a one-man performance at the Albery Theatre in the West End of London.[121]
2007 Twelfth Night Malvolio At Chichester Festival Theatre's 2007 summer festival[122] with a Scottish accent and kilt in Philip Franks' main house staging
2007 Macbeth Macbeth In Rupert Goold's revival in the Minerva studio theatre.[123] The Chichester production of Macbeth transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London's Shaftesbury Avenue.[124]
2008 Macbeth Macbeth At the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City
2008 Macbeth Macbeth At the Lyceum Theatre, New York
2008 Hamlet Claudius and the Ghost Alongside David Tennant as the eponymous Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.[125] This was later made into a television play and broadcast on BBC1 on 26 December 2009.[126] The same production was broadcast in the U.S. as part of PBS' Great Performances series on 28 April 2010.[127]
2009 Waiting for Godot Vladimir (Didi) Alongside Ian McKellen as Estragon (Gogo)[128]
2010 Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death William Shakespeare By Edward Bond at the Chichester Festival Theatre, transferring to the Young Vic Theatre in February 2012. This was a role he had first performed in 1976 at The Other Place, Stratford.[118]
2011 The Merchant of Venice Shylock In Rupert Goold's production

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
1975 Hennessy Tilney
Hedda Ejlert Løvborg
1981 Excalibur Leondegrance
1982 The Plague Dogs Major Voice
1984 Windy Story Charles Duffner
Dune Gurney Halleck
1985 Wild Geese II Russian General
Lifeforce Dr. Armstrong
Code Name: Emerald Cnl. Peters
The Doctor and the Devils Prof. Macklin
1986 Lady Jane Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
1991 L.A. Story Mr. Perdue, Maître d' at L'Idiot
1993 Gunmen Loomis
Robin Hood: Men in Tights Richard I
1994 Star Trek Generations Captain Jean-Luc Picard
The Pagemaster Adventure Voice
1995 Jeffrey Sterling
Love Dance John
1996 Star Trek: First Contact Captain Jean-Luc Picard
1997 Conspiracy Theory Dr. Jonas
Masterminds Rafe Bentley
1998 Dad Savage Dad Savage
Safe House Mace Sowell
Star Trek: Insurrection Captain Jean-Luc Picard Also associate producer
The Prince of Egypt Seti I Voice
2000 X-Men Charles Xavier / Professor X
2001 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius King Goobot Voice
2002 Star Trek: Nemesis Captain Jean-Luc Picard
2003 X2 Charles Xavier / Professor X
2004 Boo, Zino & the Snurks Albert Drollinger Voice
2005 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Lord Yupa Voice; English dub
Steamboy Dr. Lloyd Steam
The Game of Their Lives Older Dent McSkimming
Chicken Little Mr. Woolensworth Voice
2006 Bambi II The Great Prince
X-Men: The Last Stand Charles Xavier / Professor X
2007 TMNT Max Winters/Yaotl Voice
2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine[129] Charles Xavier / Professor X Uncredited cameo
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet William Shakespeare Voice
2012 Ice Age: Continental Drift Ariscratle
Ted Narrator
2013 Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return Tugg
Hunting Elephants Lord Michael Simpson
The Wolverine Charles Xavier / Professor X Uncredited cameo
2014 Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage Narrator Voice
Match Tobi Powell
X-Men: Days of Future Past[130] Charles Xavier / Professor X
A Million Ways to Die in the West Guardian Sheep Uncredited voice
2015 Green Room Darcy
Ted 2 Narrator Voice
Christmas Eve Harris
2016 Spark: A Space Tail The Captain Voice
2017 Logan Charles Xavier / Professor X
Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire Drago Voice
The Emoji Movie Poop
The Wilde Wedding Harold
2018 Postcards from the 48%[131] Himself A film made by and featuring those who voted Remain in the UK's EU Referendum vote, the 48%.
2019 The Kid Who Would Be King Merlin
Charlie's Angels Bosley Post-production
The Gift Henry Cole Post-production

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
1965 The Avengers Man walking in from the sea Episode: "The Town of No Return"
1967 Coronation Street Fire Officer Episode: "#1.638"
1973 Play of the Month: The Love-Girl and the Innocent Gurvich Play by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, directed by Alan Clarke
1974 Fall of Eagles Vladimir Lenin 3 episodes
Antony and Cleopatra Enobarbus Television film
The Gathering Storm Clement Attlee Television film
1975 North & South John Thornton 4 episodes
Joby Reg Weston Television film
1976 I, Claudius Sejanus 4 episodes
1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Karla Episode: "How It All Fits Together"
1980 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Claudius Television film
The Anatomist by James Bridie Dr. Knox Television film
Little Lord Fauntleroy Wilkins Television film
1981–1983 Maybury Dr. Edward Roebuck 20 episodes
1982 Smiley's People Karla Episode #1.6
1984 Pope John Paul II Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka Television film
1987–1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation Jean-Luc Picard 176 episodes
1988 Reading Rainbow Himself Episode: "The Bionic Bunny Show"
1993 Death Train Malcolm Philpott Television film
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Captain Jean-Luc Picard / Locutus Episode: "Emissary"
1994 Saturday Night Live Himself (host) Episode: "Patrick Stewart/Salt-N-Pepa"
In Search of Dr. Seuss Sgt. Mulvaney (voice) Television film
1995 The Simpsons Number 1 (voice) Episode: "Homer the Great"
500 Nations (voice) 8 episodes
1996 The Canterville Ghost Sir Simon de Canterville Television film
1998 Moby Dick Captain Ahab 3 episodes
1999 Animal Farm Napoleon (voice) Television film
A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge Television film
2002 King of Texas John Lear Television film
2003 The Lion in Winter King Henry II Television film
Frasier Alastair Burke Episode: "The Doctor Is Out"
2004 The Last Dragon Narrator Television film
2005 Mysterious Island Nemo Television film
2005–2014 Family Guy Various voices 14 episodes
2005 The Snow Queen The Raven (voice) Television film
2005–present American Dad! Avery Bullock (voice) 83 episodes
2005 Extras Himself Episode: "Patrick Stewart"
2006 Eleventh Hour Professor Ian Hood 4 episodes
2009 Hamlet Claudius/The Ghost Television film
2010 Macbeth Macbeth Television film
2012 Richard II John of Gaunt Television film
Futurama The Huntmaster (voice) Episode: "31st Century Fox"
2012, 2014 Robot Chicken Various voices 2 episodes
2012 The Daily Show Correspondent 7 episodes
Racing Legends Presenter Episode: "Stirling Moss"
2013 The Simpsons Unnamed Co-worker (voice) Episode: "The Fabulous Faker Boy"
2014 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey William Herschel (voice) Episode: "A Sky Full of Ghosts"[132]
2015–2016 Blunt Talk[133] Walter Blunt 20 episodes
2015 Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures Albert (voice) Episode: "Fishy Business"
2016 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Himself (voice) Episode: "Kimmy Kidnaps Gretchen!"

Video games[edit]

Year Title Voice role
1994 Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos King Richard
1995 Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard
1997 Star Trek: Generations
1999 Star Trek: Hidden Evil
2000 Star Trek: Invasion
Star Trek: Armada Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard / Locutus of Borg Clone
2001 Star Trek: Armada II Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard
2002 Star Trek: Bridge Commander
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III
X-Men: Next Dimension Charles Xavier / Professor X
2003 X2: Wolverine's Revenge
Star Trek: Elite Force II Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard
2004 Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone Khelban 'Blackstaff' Arunsun
X-Men Legends Charles Xavier / Professor X
2005 X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse
2006 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Emperor Uriel Septim VII
X-Men: The Official Game Charles Xavier / Professor X
Star Trek: Legacy Cpt. Jean Luc Picard
2010 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Zobek
Lego Universe Narrator
2011 The Sims Medieval
War of the Worlds
2014 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Zobek
Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff Himself
Watch Dogs Ivan Pattinson

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year Nominated work Award Result
1979 Antony and Cleopatra Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Won
1992 A Christmas Carol Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance Won
1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Nominated
Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos Computer Gaming World PREMIER Award for Best Male Voice-Over Acting in a Multimedia Game[134] Won
1996 Star Trek: First Contact Saturn Award for Best Actor Nominated
Peter and the Wolf Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children Won
1998 Moby Dick Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated
Satellite Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
1999 A Christmas Carol Saturn Award for Best Television Actor Nominated
2000 X-Men Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated
2002 King of Texas Satellite Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
2003 The Lion in Winter Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Nominated
2005 Extras Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated
2007 Macbeth Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor [135] Won
2008 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play[136] Nominated
2009 Hamlet Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role Won
2013 Life's work Ride of Fame: Immortal[137] Won
2016 Blunt Talk Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy Nominated
2017 Green Room Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actor[138] Nominated
Life's work Gregory Peck Award (San Diego International Film Festival) Won
Life's Work Legends of Cinema Award (Savannah Film Festival)[139] Won
Logan Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated
2018 Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Won

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Patrick Stewart's regular Star Trek character Captain Picard had no children in the series (barring an impostor in the episode "Bloodlines"). In the episode "The Inner Light", Daniel Stewart played Batai, son of Kamin, an alternate persona which Picard had unknowingly taken on for the purposes of that single episode's plot.
  2. ^ In William Shatner's 2011 film The Captains, Stewart stated: "I have two major regrets, and they're both to do with the failure of – my failure in – my marriages."

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