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Patrick Stewart is an English actor born on the 13th of July 1940 in Mirfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He gained international fame as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series. His career spans over seven decades of stage and screen.
Patrick Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994. He reprised the role in films including Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, and on the 4th of August 2018 CBS and Stewart announced he would return as Picard in a new series.
Patrick Stewart was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama. His knighthood was conferred by Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on the 2nd of June 2010. He had earlier been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 New Year Honours.
Patrick Stewart grew up in a poor household in Mirfield, where he experienced domestic violence at the hands of his father, Alfred Stewart, a regimental sergeant major who suffered from combat fatigue after the Dunkirk evacuation. His mother, Gladys, was a weaver and textile worker. He left school at 15 and worked as a newspaper reporter and in a furniture store while pursuing local theatre.
Patrick Stewart accepted the role of Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series in the late 1990s, persuaded by his interest in working with director Bryan Singer. He played the role in seven feature films from X-Men through Logan, and returned as a version of Xavier in the 2022 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Patrick Stewart campaigns against domestic violence, drawing on his own childhood, and is a patron of Refuge, a UK charity for abused women. He supports the armed forces charity Combat Stress, is a patron of Humanists UK and Dignity in Dying, and advocates for pit bulls, receiving the ASPCA Pit Bull Advocate and Protector Award in 2021.