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Patrick Stewart was born on the 13th of July 1940 in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. His father was Alfred Stewart, a regimental sergeant major who survived the Dunkirk evacuation but returned home with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Patrick Stewart became a core member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 and remained with the company until 1982. During this tenure he worked alongside legends like Ben Kingsley and Ian Richardson.
Star Trek The Next Generation premiered in 1987 and ran for seven years. Patrick Stewart initially signed a six-year contract believing the show would fail quickly but later reprised the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in four films and the series Star Trek Picard which began in 2020.
Patrick Stewart played Professor Charles Xavier in seven feature films from X-Men in 2000 to Logan in 2017. He returned to the role in 2022 for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and is set to reprise it in the upcoming Avengers Doomsday.
Patrick Stewart won a Grammy Award for narrating recordings of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. He has also provided voices for numerous documentaries and animated films including The Prince of Egypt and Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius.
Patrick Stewart made a short video for Amnesty International in 2006 recounting the physical and psychological harm inflicted by his father's abuse. He has since become a patron of the United Nations Association UK and a vocal advocate against domestic violence.