Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart (13 July 1940 – 28 October 2026) was an English actor born in Mirfield, England. Over a stage and screen career of more than 60 years he won three Laurence Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for a Tony Award as well as several times for the Golden Globe, Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild awards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2010 for services to drama.

Stewart joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 and later acted in several Royal National Theatre productions. In the West End he won two Olivier Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, as Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra (1979) and as King Claudius in Hamlet, and his one-man A Christmas Carol, in which he played more than 40 characters, earned him the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment for Solo Performance. He made his Broadway debut in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1971, played the title role in Macbeth in 2008 to a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play, and appeared with Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land in the West End and on Broadway. His narration of Peter and the Wolf won him a Grammy.

He became an international star as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), returning to the role in four films (1994–2002) and in Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023). In collaboration with Seth MacFarlane, he voiced CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock in the animated sitcom American Dad! (2005–2026) and narrated the two Ted films (2012, 2015). On film he played Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men series (2000–2017) and later in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2022–2026), with Avengers: Doomsday as his final film performance.

In his last years Stewart had Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia. He died at his home in Los Angeles on 28 October 2026, aged 86.