Patrick Stewart

For other people named Patrick Stewart, see Patrick Stewart (disambiguation).

Sir Patrick Stewart
OBE

Stewart at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2015
Born (1940-07-13) 13 July 1940
Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Alma mater Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Occupation Actor, voice actor
Years active 1959–present
Spouse(s)
Children 2
Website patrickstewart.org

Sir Patrick Stewart OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film. Beginning his career with a long run with the Royal Shakespeare Company, his first major screen roles were in BBC-broadcast television and film during the mid-late 1970s, including Hedda and the miniseries I, Claudius. In the 1980s, he began working in American television and film, with roles 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 movies, excluding X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Apocalypse; and voice roles including CIA deputy director Avery Bullock in American Dad! and narrating the film Ted and its sequel. He currently stars in the Starz TV series Blunt Talk. In 1993, TV Guide named him the best dramatic television actor of the 1980s.[1]

Early life

Patrick Stewart[2] was born on 13 July 1940[3] in Mirfield,[4] 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).[5][6][7]

Stewart grew up in a poor household with domestic violence from his father, an experience which later influenced his political and ideological beliefs.[8] He spent much of his childhood in Jarrow.[9] 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.[10] 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 realized 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."[11]

I believed that no woman would ever be interested in me again. I prepared myself for the reality that a large part of my life was over.

Patrick Stewart, regarding his becoming bald as a teenager[12]

Stewart attended Crowlees Church of England Junior and Infants School.[13] He attributes his acting career to an English teacher named Cecil Dormand who "put a copy of Shakespeare in my hand [and] said, 'Now get up on your feet and perform.'"[14] In 1951, aged 11,[15] he entered Mirfield Secondary Modern School,[15][16] where he continued to study drama. At age 15, Stewart left school and increased his participation in local theatre. He acquired a job as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer at the Mirfield & District Reporter,[17] but after a year, his employer gave him an ultimatum to choose acting or journalism.[18] He quit the job. His brother tells the story that Stewart would attend rehearsals during work time and then invent the stories he reported. Stewart also trained as a boxer.[17] He lost his hair at the age of 18 due to suffering from Alopecia areata. The traumatic experience made Stewart timid, and he found that acting served as a means of self-expression.[19]

Stewart and fellow Yorkshire actor Brian Blessed have been close friends since childhood, meeting at a Mytholmroyd drama course when Stewart was 11 or 12.[20] Both boys later received grants to attend Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[21]

Career

Early acting career (1966–1987)

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.[22] 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.[23] He made his Broadway debut as Snout in Peter Brook's legendary[24] 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;[25] 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),[25] the character Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's film version of Dune (1984)[25] 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.[26] 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.[27][28] 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.[29][30][31][32]

Film and TV career

Star Trek: The Next Generation

When Stewart began his role as 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,[32] Stewart was unprepared for the long schedule of television production[31] that began at 4:45 am each day.[27] He initially experienced difficulty fitting in with his less-disciplined castmates,[29] stating that his "spirits used to sink" when required to memorise and recite technobabble.[31] Stewart eventually came to better understand the cultural differences between the stage and television,[29] and his favourite technical line became "space-time continuum".[31] He remained close friends with his fellow Star Trek actors[29] and became their advocate with the producers when necessary.[32] 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.[33]

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[31]

Stewart unexpectedly became wealthy because of the show's great success.[30] In 1992, during a break in filming, Stewart calculated that he earned more during that break than from 10 weeks of Woolf in London.[27] 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]."[34] 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."[35] 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.[12][36][19] In an interview with Michael Parkinson, he expressed gratitude for Gene Roddenberry's riposte 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."[37][38]

X-Men film series

"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 [30]

The extreme success of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV and film franchises, and his iconic role in the series, typecast Stewart as Picard and obtaining other roles became difficult.[30][39] He also found returning to the stage difficult because of his long departure.[30] Stewart 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."[31]

The main exception where Stewart broke out from the role of Picard came with the X-Men film series, a major superhero film series, in which Stewart plays the pivotal character of Professor Charles Xavier, a character very similar to Picard and himself; "a grand, deep-voiced, bald English guy".[30] He has also since voiced the same role in four video games including: X-Men Legends, X-Men Legends II, and X-Men: Next Dimension.

Stewart first discovered the X-Men series when Lauren Shuler Donner showed him a copy of an X-Men comic.[40]

The very first thing I ever heard about X-Men, the first time I ever heard that title used, was one afternoon when I'd been doing some ADR for [Superman director] Richard Donner, on a movie of his that I had been in. I got a note to call in at Lauren Shuler Donner's office – that's his wife, the producer. I walked in the door, Lauren picked something up from her desk and held it up. And I looked at it, and I said, "What am I doing on the front of a comic book?" And she said, "Exactly."
— Patrick Stewart

Stewart reprised his role as Professor Charles Xavier, alongside Ian McKellen as Magneto, and both their younger counterparts (played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, respectively), in the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past; it was helmed by Bryan Singer, who directed the first and second films in the series.[41]

Documentaries

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.[42]

Other film and television

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[43] and Golden Globe Award nominations 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 eleventh 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 02 (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.

Stage (1990–present)

After The Next Generation began, Stewart soon found that he missed acting on the stage.[30] 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.[30][29] 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.[44] In 1991, Stewart performed it on Broadway,[30] receiving a nomination for that year's Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show.[45] He staged encore performances in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, again for the benefit of survivors and victims' families in the 11 September attacks, and a 23-day run 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 junket 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.[46] 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.[47][48]

[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[29]

He played Antony again opposite Harriet Walter's Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the Novello Theatre in London in 2007 to excellent reviews.[29] 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".[30][29] He was named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at St Catherine's College, Oxford in January 2007.[49] 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.[50]

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.[51] 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.[51] Reviewers stated that his interpretation captured well the balance between humour and despair that characterises the work.[52] Stewart has also expressed interest in appearing in Doctor Who.[53]

Voice acting

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[54]), 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.[55] 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, and on the English dubbings of the Japanese anime films Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki and Steamboy. 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 TV adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm and guest starred in the Simpsons episode "Homer the Great" as Number One. Stewart also narrated the prologue and epilogue for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, which also appears on 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 1000 Blam! drinks, ten wizard books and fifteen pizza slices before 8 September 2014. Stewart also appears as narrator in McFarlane'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 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.[56]

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.[57] He also voiced the story plaques and trailer of the MMOG LEGO Universe.

Charity work and activism

In 2006, Stewart made a short video against domestic violence for Amnesty International,[58] 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."[59] 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.[60][61] Stewart's childhood experience also led him to become a patron of Refuge, a UK charity for abused women.[62] 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.[63] 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."[63] 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."[63] 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.[64]

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?.[65] 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,[66] speaking of his father's experiences in World War Two, and how he believed that the UN was the best legacy of that period.[67]

Personal life

Relationships and children

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.[68][69] They have two children together, son Daniel and daughter Sophia.[69] Daniel is a television actor,[70] and has appeared alongside his father in the 1993 made-for-television film Death Train, and the 1992 Star Trek 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.[68][n 2][69]

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.[71][72]

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.[73] Stewart purchased a home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in August 2012,[74] and subsequently began living there with Ozell.[73] In March 2013, it was reported that Stewart and Ozell were engaged,[73] and they married in September 2013 with Sir Ian McKellen performing the wedding ceremony.[73][75]

Beliefs, causes, and interests

Stewart's politics are rooted in his belief in fairness and equality.[8] He considers himself a socialist and is a member of the Labour Party.[76][77][19] He stated, "My father was a very strong trade unionist and those fundamental issues of Labour were ingrained into me."[76] 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. He signed an open letter of objection to this proposal in March 2008.[78] Stewart is a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association.[79] He also identifies himself as a feminist,[80] and has been a part of campaigns against domestic violence.[81] Additionally, he has publicly advocated the right to assisted suicide.[82] In January 2011, Stewart became a patron for Dignity in Dying and campaigns for an assisted dying law in the UK.[83] In August 2014, Stewart was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[84]

Stewart is president of Huddersfield Town Academy, the local football club's project for identifying and developing young talent. He is a lifelong supporter of the club.[85] 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."[11] Stewart is also an avid car enthusiast; he is regularly seen at Silverstone during British Grand Prix weekends, and on a 2003 appearance on Top Gear 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, 3m02.808s behind winner Kelvin Fletcher.[86] During 2012, Stewart met his racing hero Stirling Moss for the BBC Two documentary Racing Legends.[87]

Honours

Having lived in Los Angeles for many years, Stewart moved back to England in 2004, in part to return to work in the theatre.[8] In the same year, Stewart was appointed Chancellor[88] of the University of Huddersfield and subsequently as a Professor of Performing Arts in July 2008. In this role, Stewart regularly attends graduation ceremonies in the UK and Hong Kong and teaches master classes for drama students.[89] 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.[90]

Stewart was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours list,[91] and was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama.[92][93]

In July 2011, Stewart received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (D.Litt) from the University of East Anglia.[94][95]

In July 2012, Stewart carried the Olympic torch as part of the official relay for the 2012 Summer Olympics[96] and stated it was an experience he will 'never forget', adding that it was better than any movie première.

In July 2014, Stewart received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Leeds.[97]

In May 2015, Stewart received an Honorary Doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.[98]

Performances and awards

Below is a summary of key roles. Follow the above link for a more complete list.

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1975 Hedda Eilert Lovborg
1981 Excalibur LeoDegrance
1983 Windy Story (Uindii) Charles Duffner
1984 Dune Gurney Halleck
1985 Lifeforce Dr. Armstrong
1986 Lady Jane Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
1991 L.A. Story Mr. Perdue/ Maitre D' at L'Idiot
1993 Death Train Malcolm Philpott
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights King Richard
1994 Gunmen Loomis
1994 Star Trek Generations Captain Jean-Luc Picard
1995 Jeffrey Sterling
1996 Star Trek: First Contact Captain Jean-Luc Picard
1997 Conspiracy Theory Dr. Jonas
1997 Masterminds Bentley
1998 Star Trek: Insurrection Captain Jean-Luc Picard Also associate producer
1998 Safe House Mace Sowell
1998 The Prince of Egypt Seti Voice
1999 A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge
2000 X-Men Professor Charles Xavier
2002 Star Trek: Nemesis Captain Jean-Luc Picard
2003 X2: X-Men United Professor Charles Xavier
2004 Steamboy Dr. Lloyd Steam (voice only)
2005 "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" Lord Yupa (voice only)
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand Professor Charles Xavier
2006 Bambi II The Great Prince of the forest (voice only)
2009 Hamlet King Claudius
2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine[99] Professor Charles Xavier Uncredited cameo
2010 Macbeth Macbeth
2011 Gnomeo and Juliet William Shakespeare (voice only)
2012 Ted Narrator (voice only)
2013 Hunting Elephants Michael Simpson
2013 Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return Tugg (voice only)
2013 The Wolverine Professor Charles Xavier Uncredited cameo
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past[100] Professor Charles Xavier Shared role with James McAvoy
2014 A Million Ways to Die in the West Sheep (uncredited voice)
2014 Match Tobi Powell
2015 Ted 2 Narrator (voice only)
2015 Christmas Eve Harris Also known as Stuck
2015 Green Room Darcy First released at 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Wide release in 2016[101]
2017 Untitled Wolverine sequel Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1975 North & South John Thornton BBC TV Mini-series
1976 I, Claudius Lucius Aelius Sejanus Episodes: "Poison Is Queen" through "Reign of Terror"
1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Karla Episode: How It All Fits Together
1982 Smiley's People Karla
1987–1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation Jean-Luc Picard 176 episodes
1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Captain Jean-Luc Picard Episode: "Emissary"
1995 The Simpsons Number 1 (voice only) Episode: "Homer the Great"
1998 Moby Dick Captain Ahab Main role
2003 Frasier Alistair Burke Episode: "The Doctor Is Out"
2005–present American Dad! Avery Bullock (voice only) Recurring role
2006–present Family Guy Various voices 14 episodes
2006 Eleventh Hour Ian Hood Main role
2010 Macbeth Macbeth Main role
2012 Futurama Huntmaster (voice only) Episode: "31st Century Fox"[102]
2012, 2015 Robot Chicken Gurney Halleck/Harold/Jerry the Alien/Captain Jean-Luc Picard Episodes: "Disemboweled by an Orphan" and "Cheese Puff Mountain" (voice)
2013 The Simpsons Vigorous Older Man (voice only) Episode: "The Fabulous Faker Boy" (Guest role)
2014 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey William Herschel (voice only) Episode: "A Sky Full of Ghosts" (Guest role)[103]
2015–present Blunt Talk Walter Blunt Main role

Web series

Year Title Role Notes
2015 Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures Albert (voice) Recurring role

Notes

  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."

References

  1. ↑ TV Guide 17–23 April 1993. 1993. p. 32.
  2. ↑ People of Today: Debrett, London, 2007
  3. ↑ "– Patrick Stewart Biography". Patrickstewart.org. 13 July 1940. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Chadwick, Lauren (26 October 2007). "Stewart honoured". Mirfield Reporter (Dewsbury, England). Retrieved 29 February 2008.
  5. ↑ "Mirfield star Sir Patrick Stewart delves into family history" 2 September 2012 Dewbury Reporter.
  6. ↑ "Patrick Stewart Featured Article". TheGenealogist. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
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