Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE (13 July 1940) is an English film, television and stage actor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years: he was a core member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 until 1982 and honoured as an Associate Artist of the company in 1968. He is most widely known, however, for his television and film roles, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Professor Charles Xav...
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Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE (13 July 1940) is an English film, television and stage actor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years: he was a core member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 until 1982 and honoured as an Associate Artist of the company in 1968. He is most widely known, however, for his television and film roles, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films.
Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, the son of Gladys (née Barrowclough), a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army who served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and previously worked as a general labourer and as a postman. Throughout childhood, he endured poverty and disadvantage, an experience which influenced his later political and ideological beliefs. In 2006 Stewart made a short video against violence for Amnesty International, in which...
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