Patrick Stewart
Birthdate: July 13, 1940 (86 Years Old)
Birthplace: Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
If anyone other than William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy can claim to be the face of Star Trek, it is actor Patrick Stewart (birthname: Patrick Stewart), an elegant stage-trained veteran who has entered his sixth decade as a big-screen star and his seventh as a TV stalwart. Stewart is durable enough at he has worked with such legendary stars as Gregory Peck and Trevor Howard as well as young rising stars like Elizabeth Olsen.
Patrick Stewart can claim to be the only major star to appear in both the Star Trek franchise (as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard) and the MCU (as Prof. Charles Xavier aka Professor X, in the X-Men and Doctor Strange franchises). Easily overlooked in any summation of Stewart’s long career is that he is one of the great living Shakespearean actors, performing The Bard from his marathon run as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company on through numerous TV productions, including his Emmy-nominated Claudius in a modern-styled Hamlet (2009).
Although primarily identified by mass audiences for his TV work (his many award nominations—with surprisingly few wins—have been entirely for the small-screen medium), Patrick Stewart has appeared in feature films since the mid-1970s, with Rod Steiger in Hennessey (1975) and with Glenda Jackson in Hedda (1975). Much of Stewart’s feature work is actually behind the camera as a vocal actor, with dozens of credits in animated features including Richard Adams’ The Plague Dogs (1982); the English versions of Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984); Dreamworks’ blockbuster, The Prince of Egypt (1998), with Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Jeff Goldblum; Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001); Disney’s $300 million worldwide grosser, Chicken Little (2005); the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles reboot, TMNT (2007); and Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (2012).
It’s worth noting that Patrick Stewart’s first foray into science fiction (the genre he’s best known for) was in David Lynch’s controversial 1984 version of Dune, three years after his first major film appearance in John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981). Though consumed with his ongoing role as Picard in the TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994), Patrick Stewart made appearances in Steve Martin’s L.A. Story (1991) and Mel Brooks’ spoof, Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). The following year marked the start of a string of major Star Trek movies, including Generations (1994), First Contact (1996), Insurrection (1998), and Nemesis (2002).
Despite Stewart’s 15-year run as Picard, his period portraying the MCU character of Prof. Charles Xavier is actually longer, spanning from the original X-Men (2000) through James Mangold’s Logan (2017) with Hugh Jackman as a memorable Wolverine to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) with Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, and Rachel McAdams. Stewart will appear occasionally in unexpected roles, such as the evil leader of a circle of neo-Nazi killers in Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room (2015) with the late Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots.
Patrick Stewart’s considerable work for television can obviously not be overlooked, with a few worth special mentions beyond Star Trek: The Next Generation: his Sejanus in the stunning British miniseries, I, Claudius (1976) with Derek Jacobi, and again with Jacobi as Hamlet (1980); the title role in Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles (1977); his Emmy-nominated Capt. Ahab in Franc Roddam’s version of Moby Dick (1998); his Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1999); his Western-style version of King Lear in King of Texas (2002); his King Henry in Andrei Konchalovsky’s TV version of The Lion in Winter with Glenn Close (2003); his stunning Macbeth (2010), which captures the Tony-nominated stage production on film; and opposite Ian McKellan in a filmed-for-TV version of the National Theatre staging of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land (2016).
Personal life
Known For
Star Trek: First Contact
Picard (1996)
Star Trek: Insurrection
Picard (1998)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Locutus of Borg, Michael Williams (1987)
Awards
Four-time nominee, Supporting/Guest/Lead Actor, Emmy Awards (1998, 2004, 2006, 2010); Three-time nominee, Best Actor, Golden Globes (1999, 2005, 2016); Winner, Spoken Word Album for Children, Grammy Awards (1996); Three-time nominee, Best Actor, Screen Actors Guild (1995, 2000, 2011); Three-time winner, Best Actor, Olivier Award. Honoree, Hollywood Walk of Fame (1996).
Patrick Stewart Movies
Actor
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- 2026 |
Avengers: Doomsday
asProfessor Charles Xavier, Professor X
Heroes from three different worlds must unite when they're thrust together to confront a catastrophic danger that could destroy everything they know.
- 2026 |
The Sheep Detectives
asSir Ritchfield
Every night a shepherd reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand. When he is found dead, the sheep realize at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it.
- 2022 |
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
asProfessor Charles Xavier
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl who can travel across multiverses, to battle other-universe versions of himself which threaten to wipe out the multiverse. They seek help from the Scarlet Witch, Wong and others.
- 2019 |
Charlie's Angels
asJohn Bosley
When a young systems engineer blows the whistle on a dangerous technology, Charlie's Angels are called into action, putting their lives on the line to protect us all.
- 2019 |
The Kid Who Would Be King
asAdult Merlin
Alex, a 12-year-old boy, and his friends fight an evil sorceress with the help of Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur, in a bid to save the world from her atrocities.
- 2017 |
- 2017 |
The Emoji Movie
asPoop
Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.
- 2017 |
Spark: A Space Tail
asThe Captain
Spark, a teenage monkey and his friends, Chunk and Vix, are on a mission to regain Planet Bana, a kingdom overtaken by the evil overlord Zhong.
- 2017 |
A Question of Faith
asSergei
When tragedy strikes three families, their destiny forces them on a converging path to discover God's love, grace, and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs.
- 2016 |
Masterminds
asBentley
A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery.
- 2016 |
Green Room
asDarcy
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.
- 2015 |
- 2014 |
X-Men: Days of Future Past
asProfessor X
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
- 2012 |
Safe House
asMace Sowell
A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.
- 2012 |
- 2007 |
- 2006 |
X-Men: The Last Stand
asCharles Xavier
The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Grey becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.
- 2005 |
Chicken Little
asMr. Woolensworth
After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.
- 2003 |
X2: X-Men United
asProfessor Charles Xavier
When anti-mutant Colonel William Stryker kidnaps Professor X and attacks his school, the X-Men must ally with their archenemy Magneto to stop him.
- 2000 |
- 1998 |
The Prince of Egypt
asSeti
Egyptian Prince Moses learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.
- 1985 |
- 1981 |
- -- | as Henry Cole
- -- | as Sir Ritchfield
- -- | as Seti
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