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| image = PatrickStew211023 (5 of 23) (53275504860) (cropped).jpg| caption = Stewart in October 2023| birth_name = df=yes7|13}}| birth_place = Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England| occupation = Actor| alma_mater = Bristol Old Vic Theatre School| years_active = 1959–present{{marriage1966end=div}}Wendy Neuss2003{{marriageSunny Ozell>2013}}}}| children = 2| signature = 2021 07 22-3 13-PM-Office-Lens (1).svg}}Sir Patrick Stewart {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has spanned seven decades in theatre, film, television and video games. He has received accolades throughout his career including two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama in 2010.In 1966, Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his Broadway theatre debut in 1971 in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1979, he received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Antony and Cleopatra in the West End. His first television role was in Coronation Street in 1967. His first major screen roles were in Fall of Eagles (1974), I, Claudius (1976) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). In 2008 he reprised his role as King Claudius in Hamlet and received his second Olivier Award and his first Tony Award nomination for respectively the West End and Broadway theatre productions.Stewart gained international stardom for his leading role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (1987–1994), its subsequent films and (Star Trek: Picard) (2020–23). He starred as Captain Ahab in the USA miniseries Moby Dick (1998), Ebenezer Scrooge in TNT television film A Christmas Carol (1999) and King Henry II in the Showtime made-for-television film The Lion in Winter (2003). He also became known for his comedic appearances on sitcoms Frasier and Extras for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination. He also starred as the lead of Blunt Talk (2015–2016). He currently voices Avery Bullock on American Dad!. Stewart's first film role was in Trevor Nunn's Hedda (1975) followed by roles in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) and David Lynch's Dune (1984). He gained further stardom when he portrayed Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men series (2000–2014), Logan (2017) and an alternate version of the eponymous character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). He has acted in films such as L.A. Story (1991), (Robin Hood: Men in Tights) (1993), Jeffrey (1995) and The Kid Who Would Be King (2019). He has also voiced roles in The Pagemaster (1994), The Prince of Egypt (1998), (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) (2001), Chicken Little (2005), Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) and Ted (2012). {{TOC limit|4}}

Early life and education

Patrick StewartNamed after his father's army sobriquet. Making It So, p. 4. was born in Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 13 July 1940,NEWS, 13 July 2010, Mirfield's Sir Patrick at 70, BBC,weblink 13 July 2020, the son of Gladys (née Barrowclough), a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart (1905–1980), a regimental sergeant major in the British Army Parachute Regiment during the Second World War who later worked as a general labourer and postman.WEB,weblinkweblink 10 January 2022, subscription, live, Family detective, Nick, Barratt, The Telegraph, 12 January 2007, {{cbignore}} He has two older brothers named Geoffrey (1925–1974) and Trevor (born 1935).NEWS,weblink Mirfield star Sir Patrick Stewart delves into family history, 2 September 2012, Dewsbury Reporter, 3 September 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130731142537weblink">weblink 31 July 2013, dead, WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart Featured Article, 29 August 2012, TheGenealogist.co.uk, 15 January 2014, Patrick Stewart – Who Do You Think You Are (UK) S09E03. Accessed 19 January 2015. He spent much of his childhood in a poor household in Mirfield, where he experienced domestic violence at the hands of his father.NEWS,weblink Patrick Stewart – back on stage, BBC News, 16 December 2005, BBC, 20 September 2008, NEWS, Stewart, Patrick, 2009-11-27, Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence,weblink live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131228022358weblink">weblink 2013-12-28, 2024-03-08, The Guardian, en-GB, 0261-3077, As a result of wartime service during the Dunkirk evacuation, his father suffered from combat fatigue, which is now known as PTSD. Stewart said in 2008, "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 realised 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."JOURNAL, 2008, Twenty Questions, American Theatre (magazine), American Theatre, 8750-3255, 25, 3, 96, Stewart attended Crowlees Junior and Infant School, a Church of England–affiliated school in Mirfield.Jenny Parkin, "Heartfelt hello from an old pal... Hollywood star Patrick calls after message", in Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 19 December 2003 He later attributed his acting career to his English teacher there, Cecil Dormand, who "put a copy of Shakespeare in [Stewart's] hand" and told him to get up and perform.NEWS,weblink BBC News – Star Trek star Patrick Stewart knighted at Palace, BBC Online, 2 June 2010, 2 June 2010, He entered Mirfield Secondary Modern School in 1951, aged 11, and continued to study drama there.WEB,weblink Sir Patrick Stewart (Son of Mirfield), Mirfield Memories, NEWS,weblink Sir Patrick Stewart relives Star Trek days as he steps down as University of Huddersfield Chancellor, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 13 July 2015, Around the same time, he met and befriended fellow actor Brian Blessed on a drama course in Mytholmroyd.WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart, www.mirfieldmemories.co.uk, 22 July 2016, At the age of 15, he left school and increased his participation in local theatre. He supported himself with work as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer for the local newspaper,VIDEO, Jonathan Frakes, Frakes, Jonathan, 2005, Star Trek: First Contact Special Edition DVD commentary, DVD, Paramount Pictures, but quit after one year when his boss gave him an ultimatum to choose acting or journalism.WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart Biography, 14 January 2008, 2007, The Patrick Stewart Network, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080111093439weblink">weblink 11 January 2008, According to one of his brothers, Stewart would attend theatre rehearsals when he was supposed to be in work and then invent the stories he was reporting on, or persuade other reporters to cover for him. Stewart got a job in a furniture store, that not only allowed him to attend rehearsals with little scheduling conflict, but he also found that his thespian talent was applicable, resulting him in becoming productive in sales while practising his acting technique by tailoring his sales pitch for each customer.WEB, McKittrick, Chris, Patrick Stewart on His Early Career Struggles and What He Learned About Acting from Working at a Furniture Store,weblink Daily Actor, 21 November 2013, 23 October 2023, He also trained in boxing. He has said that acting served as a means of self-expression in his youth.{{r|ind20030630}} Stewart and Blessed later received grants to attend the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.WEB,weblink Brian Blessed interview: "The Queen wanted me to shout 'Gordon's Alive!'", 22 July 2016, 30 June 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160630202952weblink">weblink dead, Stewart was the first person who was neither a graduate of Oxford nor Cambridge to receive a grant from West Riding Council.BOOK, Stewart, Patrick, Making It So: A Memoir, 2023, London, Gallery Books, 107,

Acting career

Early acting career (1959–1987)

Stewart's first professional stage appearance was on 19 May 1959 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol (for the Bristol Old Vic Company), playing Cutpurse (a thief among the audience for the play-within-a-play) in Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by John Hale.NEWS, Large-scale 'Cyrano' at Bristol Old Vic, 28 May 1959, The Stage, 17, Following a period with Manchester's Library Theatre, Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, remaining with them until 1982. He was an associate artist of the company in 1967.WEB,weblink Patrick plays the Ghost and Claudius in Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100409080926weblink">weblink 9 April 2010, 2 January 2010, dead, 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.VIDEO, Kenneth Clark, Civilisation, Television production, BBC, London, UK., 1969, During the early 1970s, UCSB professor Homer Swander recruited him to help teach American university students about Shakespeare, which led to his breakthrough into Hollywood.NEWS, Stewart, Patrick, Homer Swander obituary,weblink 24 September 2023, The Guardian, 6 March 2018, He made his Broadway debut as Snout in Peter Brook's legendary 1970 productionBOOK, Bennett, Susan, Performing nostalgia: shifting Shakespeare and the contemporary past, Routledge, London, 1996, 18, 978-0-415-07326-4,weblink 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;BOOK, Nemecek, Larry, Dave, Stern, The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion, 1992, Pocket Books, New York, 978-0-671-79460-6, 18, Rebirth, registration,weblink Karla in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People; Claudius in a 1980 BBC adaptation of Hamlet. He took the romantic male lead in the 1975 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. He also took the lead, as psychiatric consultant Dr Edward Roebuck, in BBC's Maybury in 1981. He continued to play minor roles in films, such as King Leondegrance in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981), the character Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's Dune (1984), Dr. Armstrong in Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985) and Henry Grey in Lady Jane (1986), the story of English Queen Lady Jane Grey.BOOK, Robison, William B., Parrill, Sue, Sue Parrill, The Tudors on Film and Television, 2013, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 978-0-7864-5891-2, 130, Stewart preferred classical theatre to other genres, asking Doctor Who actress Lalla Ward why she would work in science fiction or on television.INTERVIEW, Lalla Ward, 1 April 2016, Ward, Lalla, Lalla Ward, McGann, Paul, K9 & Co., BBC,weblink In 1987, he nonetheless agreed to work in Hollywood on a revival of (Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek), after Robert H. Justman saw him while attending a literary reading at UCLA.{{r|brady19920405}}WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20021128164745weblink">weblink 28 November 2002, Robert Justman – Co-Producer Co-Creator of Star Trek, BBC, 7 May 2011, Stewart knew nothing about the cultural influence of 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 the new show would quickly fail, and that he would return to his London stage career after making some money.{{r|lyall20080127}}NEWS, News Corp.,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080511195800weblink">weblink 11 May 2008, Patrick Stewart: Keep on Trekkin', The Sunday Times, 4 November 2007, 27 April 2011, Appleyard, Bryan, London, {{r|bbcstewart}}{{r|day20121226}} Regardless, Stewart's trusted colleague, Ian McKellen, was particularly vocal in advising Stewart not to throw away his theatrical career for this foray into television, which Stewart had to disregard considering the opportunity.WEB, Sharf, Zack, Ian McKellen Told Patrick Stewart to Reject 'Star Trek' Offer and Stay in Theater, Admitted Later He Was Wrong: 'You Can't Throw That Away to Do TV. No!',weblink Variety.com, 3 October 2023, Variety, 22 October 2023, While in Hollywood, he spent 18 months using the professional name "Patrick Hewes Stewart" while negotiating the rights to his original name from an American actor who had already registered it with the Screen Actors Guild.WEB,weblink Thomas Middleditch and Patrick Stewart on Doing Standup, Nicknames and Crazy Fan Encounters, Debra, Birnbaum, 14 June 2016, Variety (magazine), Variety,

Film and TV career (1987–present)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

File:Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart.jpg|thumb|Stewart with (Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek) co-star Brent SpinerBrent SpinerWhen Stewart was picked for the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (1987–1994), 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,NEWS,weblink Patrick Stewart: 'Next Generation,' 'X-Men' and Hollywood history, Los Angeles Times, 4 November 2019, Day, Patrick Kevin,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130201220119weblink">weblink 1 February 2013, he was unprepared for the long schedule of television productionWEB,weblink Patrick Stewart – Jean Luc Picard, Captain of the Enterprise, BBC, 27 February 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130926232634weblink">weblink 26 September 2013, that began at 4:45 am each day.{{r|brady19920405}} He initially experienced difficulty fitting in with his less-disciplined castmates with a time when he called the main cast in to scold them for being unprofessional in his eyes recalled as an embarrassment, especially when he berated them saying "We're not here... to have fun!"WEB, McMillan, Graeme, Patrick Stewart's rocky start on Star Trek: The Next Generation: "We are not here to have fun",weblink Popverse, 3 October 2023, 12 November 2023, {{r|lyall20080127}} Furthermore, Stewart recalled that his "spirits used to sink" when he was required to memorise and recite technobabble.{{r|bbcstewart}} He eventually came to better understand the cultural differences between the stage and television and relaxed to a degree at work,{{r|lyall20080127}} and his favourite technical line became "spacetime continuum".{{r|bbcstewart}} He remained close friends with his fellow Star Trek actors{{r|lyall20080127}} and became their advocate with the producers when necessary.{{r|day20121226}} 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.WEB,weblink Marina Sirtis – Star Trek: The Next Generation's empathetic Counsellor, BBC, 7 May 2011, Jonathan Frakes said that while "Some shows I've been on, actors show up who haven't even read the script", Stewart "set such a high bar for preparation. We all came to work in the morning completely prepared. We knew our lines and had broken down the script".WEB, Marsh, Calum, 24 January 2019, Star Trek Legend Jonathan Frakes on Life As an Actor's Director,weblink 14 January 2023, Vulture, Stewart unexpectedly became wealthy because of the show's success.{{r|appleyard20071104}} In 1992, during a break in filming, Stewart calculated that he earned more during that break than from 10 weeks of Woolf in London.NEWS,weblink In Step With: Patrick Stewart, Parade, 5 April 1992, 28 April 2011, Brady, James, 21, 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 (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)|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]."NEWS,weblink Five Minutes With: Patrick Stewart, BBC, 23 April 2011, 2 June 2011, 1, He has also said he is very proud of his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation for its social messages and educational impact on young viewers. When questioned about his role's significance compared to his distinguished Shakespearean career, he said, "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."WEB,weblinkweblink" title="archive.today/20120709150749weblink">weblink usurped, 9 July 2012, Patrick Stewart at the controls, 14 January 2008, Tyler, McLeod, 17 August 1997, CANOE, The accolades he 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.NEWS,weblink Bold, Bald Actor Voted TV's Most Bodacious Man, Deseret News, 13 July 1992, 7 May 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah, WEB,weblink Jonathan Frakes – The Next Generation's Number One, Will Riker, and Trek director, BBC, 7 May 2011, NEWS,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110812055703weblink">weblink 12 August 2011, The Independent, London, Patrick Stewart: The spirit of Enterprise, 30 June 2003, 22 May 2010, In an interview with Michael Parkinson, he expressed gratitude for Gene Roddenberry's response 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."WEB,weblink mental_floss Blog " 3 Bald encounters on the set of Star Trek, Mentalfloss.com, 25 August 2008, 2 May 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090728173103weblink">weblink 28 July 2009, Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080907142702weblink">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: WEB,weblink at 0:34, Youtube, 2 May 2010, {{cbignore}}}}On 4 August 2018, CBS and Stewart jointly announced that he would reprise his role as Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series. In a prepared statement, Stewart said he and the new show's producers would "endeavour to bring a fresh, unexpected and pertinent story to life once more."NEWS,weblink Patrick Stewart to reprise 'Star Trek' role in new series, Toronto Star, 4 August 2018, 5 August 2018, NEWS,weblinkweblink 10 January 2022, subscription, live, Patrick Stewart returns to Star Trek as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, 5 August 2018, The Telegraph, 5 August 2018, {{cbignore}}

X-Men film series

The success of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV and film franchises typecast Stewart as Picard and obtaining other roles became difficult.{{r|appleyard20071104}}NEWS,weblink Patrick Stewart can't wait for Chichester role, Portsmouth News, 13 April 2010, 1 April 2016, He also found returning to the stage difficult because of his long absence.{{r|appleyard20071104}} He 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."{{r|bbcstewart}}File:World Premiere Logan Berlinale 2017 21.jpg|thumb|Stewart with co-star Hugh Jackman at the 2017 world premiere of Logan]]However, in the late 1990s he accepted a key role in the big-budget X-Men film series, as Professor Charles Xavier, founder and mentor of the superhero team, a role similar in many ways to Picard. He was initially reluctant to sign on to another movie franchise, but his interest in working with director Bryan Singer persuaded him. In addition, Stewart was joined by Ian McKellen, who had by then conceded that his friend had made a prudent choice performing in popular screen science fiction, who played Xavier's friend and ideological nemesis, the super villain Magneto. Stewart has played the role in seven feature films (X-Men, X2, (X-Men: The Last Stand), (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), The Wolverine, (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Logan) and voiced the role in several video games (X-Men Legends, X-Men Legends II, and (X-Men: Next Dimension)). Stewart announced that he would be leaving the X-Men film franchise after Logan.MAGAZINE, Collis, Clark, Patrick Stewart says he's retiring from X-Men franchise: 'I'm done',weblink Entertainment Weekly, 25 February 2017, In 2022, Stewart portrayed the Professor Xavier of Earth-838 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.NEWS, Abdulbaki, Mae, Doctor Strange's Illuminati Members Explained: New Origins, Actors & Powers,weblink 6 May 2022, Screen Rant, 5 May 2022,

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 Picard.WEB, Exclusive Clips from William Shatner's 'The Captains',weblink Trekmovie.com, In 2016, he narrated Connected Universe, a crowdfunded documentary film directed by Malcolm Carter on the ideas of self-styled physicist Nassim Haramein.WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart Narrating New Documentary 'The Connected Universe', The Hollywood Reporter, 22 September 2016, 27 November 2016,

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 nominationWEB,weblink Patrick Stewart Emmy Winner, Emmys.com, 15 January 2014, and Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance. He starred in the 1998 film Safe House. 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 11th 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 2 (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. He played John Bosley in the 2019 action comedy film Charlie's Angels, released on 15 November.WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart to Play Bosley in 'Charlie's Angels' (Exclusive), www.msn.com, 18 September 2018, He also was a voice actor on the animated films The Prince of Egypt, (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (film)|Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius), Chicken Little, The Pagemaster, The Emoji Movie, Dragon Rider, the English dubbings of the Japanese anime films Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, by Hayao Miyazaki, and Steamboy, by Katsuhiro Otomo. 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 made-for-TV film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm and guest starred in the Simpsons episode "Homer the Great" as Number One. Stewart also recorded a narration planned for the prologue and epilogue for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas but the final movie used another voice (the original narration appears only on the first edition of 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 also made several guest appearances on Family Guy in various roles. Stewart also appears as narrator in Seth MacFarlane'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.

Theatre (1990–present)

After The Next Generation began, Stewart soon found that he missed acting on the stage.{{r|appleyard20071104}} 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.{{r|appleyard20071104}}{{r|lyall20080127}} 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.NEWS,weblink A Voice That Launched a Thousand Trips, The New York Times, 15 December 1991, 28 April 2011, Collins, Glenn, File:Patrick Stewart signing autographs.jpg|upright|left|thumb|Stewart signing autographs following a production of Hamlet at the RSC in July 2008]]In 1991, Stewart performed it on Broadway,{{r|appleyard20071104}} receiving a nomination for that year's Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show.WEB,weblink 1991–1992 38th Drama Desk Awards, 1 December 2009, dead,weblink" title="archive.today/20080704130634weblink">weblink 4 July 2008, He staged encore Broadway performances in 1992 and 1994, with the 1993 run held in London and the 1996 production in Los Angeles. Stewart brought the show back to Broadway in 2001, with all proceeds going to charity – and the show of 28 December's revenue, specifically, going to the 11 September campaign of the Actors Fund of America.WEB, Robert Simonson, Simonson, Robert, Patrick Stewart Returns to Broadway with One-Man A Christmas Carol, Dec. 24–30,weblink Playbill, 17 November 2001, 30 March 2018, A 23-day run re-opened 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.File:9.24.13WaitingForGodot-NoMansLandPressJunketByLuigiNovi8.jpg|thumb|Stewart with actors Ian McKellen and Billy Crudup at a September 2013 press event 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.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080115221701weblink">weblink 15 January 2008, The Tempest, Royal Shakespeare Company, 20 September 2008, In 1997, he took the role of Othello with the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) 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.WEB,weblink The Issue of Race and Othello, Bcs.bedfordstmartins.com, 2 May 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110716171355weblink">weblink 16 July 2011, WEB,weblink Othello by William Shakespeare directed by Jude Kelly, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, 20 September 2008, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090108233725weblink">weblink 8 January 2009, }}He played Antony again opposite Harriet Walter's Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the Novello Theatre in London in 2007 to excellent reviews.{{r|lyall20080127}} 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".{{r|appleyard20071104}}NEWS,weblink To Boldly Go Where Shakespeare Calls, The New York Times, 27 January 2008, 27 April 2011, Lyall, Sarah, He was named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at St Catherine's College, Oxford in January 2007.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080526203531weblink">weblink 26 May 2008, Patrick Stewart named Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor at Oxford, University of Oxford, 17 January 2007, 20 September 2008, 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.WEB, Staff, 8 March 2009,weblink Speeches: And the Laurence Olivier Winners Said, WhatsonStage.com, 5 September 2015, 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.NEWS,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090403012126weblink">weblink dead, 3 April 2009, Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot, Cavendish, Dominic, 31 March 2009, The Daily Telegraph, UK, 8 July 2009, 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. Reviewers stated that his interpretation captured well the balance between humour and despair that characterises the work.NEWS,weblink McKellen and Stewart Deliver a 'Godot' With a Difference, Wolf, Matt, 7 May 2009, The New York Times, 8 July 2009, ...the two tramps suspended in the limbo that, broadly speaking, is life. But in my extensive experience of this play, I've never seen a staging as attuned to the presence of mortality that underpins even Beckett's jauntiest repartee., In 2014, Stewart and McKellen appeared on Broadway with two alternating productions, Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land. To promote the plays, Stewart and McKellen, acted on Stewart's wife's suggestion to tour New York City in a Twitter campaign in which the actors would take playful photographs of themselves visiting various tourist locations on their days off while wearing their Godot characters' bowler hats.WEB, Hosmer, Katie, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart Act Like NYC Tourists,weblink My Modern Met, 3 April 2014, 17 November 2023, Although the plays' marketing department disapproved of the idea, the actors proceeded with the inexpensive publicity campaign, which proved a major success. Furthermore, this campaign changed Stewart's image as a serious actor by emphasizing his sense of humour, which led to frequent guest appearances in various comedy programs.WEB, O'Reilly, Terry, The Show Must Go On: Broadway Marketing,weblink CBC, 17 November 2023, Stewart has been a prolific actor in performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in more than 60 productions.WEB, RSC performances Patrick Stewart,weblink Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 18 July 2022, His first appearance was in 1966 in The Investigation and in the years that followed he became a core member of the company, taking on three or four major roles each season.BOOK, Trowbridge, Simon, Stratfordians: a Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Editions Albert Creed, Oxford, England, 2008, 471–473, 978-0-9559830-1-6, On 18 November 2012, Stewart appeared on stage at St Martin's Theatre in the West End for a 60th anniversary performance of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play.NEWS, Mousetrap celebrates 60 years with gala performance,weblink 26 November 2022, BBC,

Voice work

File:Patrick Stewart 2012.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Stewart at the 2012 Peabody AwardsPeabody AwardsKnown 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 ShatnerThe Four Seasons (Vivaldi), derivative works (1987, 1995)), 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.WEB,weblink Mountain Gorilla (2010), BBC, 18 July 2011, He is 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 lent his voice to the Activision-produced Star Trek computer games (Star Trek: Armada), (Star Trek: Armada II|Armada II), (Star Trek: Starfleet Command III), (Star Trek: Invasion), (Star Trek: Bridge Commander|Bridge Commander), and (Star Trek: Elite Force II|Elite Force II), all reprising his role as 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 AwardWEB,weblink 'Oblivion,' 'War' rule at Spike video game awards, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 December 2006, 24 April 2019, 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.WEB, Boyes, Emma,weblink Patrick Stewart voicing FFXII ads, Gamespot.com, 15 February 2007, 2 May 2010, 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.NEWS,weblink Cue the Patrick Stewart Voiceover: The Sims Machine Marches On, 25 March 2011, 5 September 2015, He also voiced the story plaques and trailer of the MMOG LEGO Universe and the narrator of My Memory Of Us.NEWS,weblink Patrick Stewart will narrate Holocaust game 'My Memory of Us', 15 August 2018, 22 June 2020,

Acting credits

Awards and honours

In 2004, Stewart was appointed chancellorWEB,weblink Sir Patrick Stewart – Emeritus Chancellor, University of Huddersfield, www.hud.ac.uk, 11 November 2019, of the University of Huddersfield and subsequently as a professor of performing arts in July 2008. In these roles, Stewart has regularly attended graduation ceremonies in the UK and Hong Kong and teaches master classes for drama students.WEB,weblink Sir Patrick Stewart's acting masterclass, University of Huddersfield, www.hud.ac.uk, 11 November 2019, 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.WEB,weblink HRH The Duke of York installed as University Chancellor, University of Huddersfield, www.hud.ac.uk, 11 November 2019, In August 2016 a building at the university was renamed the "Sir Patrick Stewart Building".WEB,weblink University's Emeritus Chancellor returns as the drama building is renamed in his honour, University of Huddersfield, www.hud.ac.uk, 11 November 2019, File:Patrick Stewart (111434472).jpg|thumb|upright|Waxwork of Stewart at Madame TussaudsMadame TussaudsOn 16 December 1996, Patrick Stewart received a Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. In 1993, TV Guide named him the Best Dramatic Television Actor of the 1980s.BOOK, TV Guide 17–23 April 1993, 1993, 32, TV Guide, Stewart was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours for services to acting and the cinema and a Knight Bachelor in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama.{{London Gazette |issue=56070 |date=30 December 2000 |page=24 |supp=y}}{{London Gazette|issue=59282|date=31 December 2009|page=1 |supp=y}} Stewart's knighthood was conferred by Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 2 June 2010.{{London Gazette |issue=59520 |date=17 August 2010 |page=15861}} Stewart carried the Olympic torch in July 2012 as part of the official relay for the 2012 London Summer Olympics and stated it was an experience he "will never forget", adding that it was better than any movie premiere.NEWS,weblink Patrick Stewart carries Olympic Torch, The Guardian, 23 July 2012, 15 January 2014, London, In a 2018 poll for Yorkshire Day, Stewart was ranked the third greatest Yorkshireman ever behind Monty Python comedian Michael Palin and fellow actor Sean Bean.NEWS, Ed Sheeran named among the greatest Yorkshiremen of all time,weblink 27 August 2019, London Economic, In July 2001, Stewart received an honorary fellowship from the University of Wales, Cardiff.WEB,weblink Picard beams down for university honour, 10 July 2001, 28 November 2019, BBC News, In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate of letters (D.Litt.) from the University of East Anglia.It's a degree Jim but not as we know it. Retrieved 25 June 2011.Star Trek star Patrick Stewart receives Honorary Doctorate from the UEA {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617214031weblink |date=17 June 2015 }}. Retrieved 20 July 2011. In July 2014, he received a D.Litt. from the University of Leeds.WEB,weblink Honorary graduates, leeds.ac.uk, 23 July 2014, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091004084355weblink">weblink 4 October 2009, In May 2015, Stewart received an honorary doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.Furniere, Andy; "VUB awards honorary doctorate to Patrick Stewart of Star Trek fame", Flanders Today, 22 May 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015 He is an emeritus fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.WEB,weblink Emeritus Fellows, www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk, 24 April 2019,weblink 14 October 2018, dead, Stewart shared with Hugh Jackman the Guinness World Record for the longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero, for his portrayal of Professor XNEWS, Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart break world record,weblink Film Industry Network, 21 February 2019, 29 June 2019, until December 2021 when they were eclipsed by Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe.WEB, Longest career as a live action Marvel character,weblink 5 March 2022, Guinness World Records, In May 2022, Stewart retook the record by appearing as the character in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Guinness cautioned the possibility of another change in the near future, with either Jackman solely or, Jackman and Stewart jointly likely to hold the award after the expected 2024 release of Deadpool 3.WEB, Patrick Stewart retakes record for longest Marvel careeraccess-date=13 December 2022 Guinness World Records>date=6 October 2022,

Charity work and activism

In 2006, Stewart made a short video against domestic violence for Amnesty International,WEB,weblink AIUK : Patrick Stewart: Turning the tide, Amnesty.org.uk, 4 December 2006, 20 March 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130307091309weblink">weblink 7 March 2013, in which he recollected his father's physical attacks on his mother and the effect it had on him as a child. 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."Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100319154029weblink">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: AV MEDIA,weblink Patrick Stewart Talks about Domestic Violence, 8 May 2007, Amnesty International, 1:12, {{cbignore}} In the same year, he gave his name to a scholarship at the University of Huddersfield, where he was Chancellor (2004–2015),WEB, Sir Patrick Stewart – Emeritus Chancellor,weblink University of Huddersfield, 15 July 2020, to fund post-graduate study into domestic violence.WEB, Stewart, Patrick, Turning the Tide, Amnesty International, May 2006,weblink 9 July 2008, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130307091309weblink">weblink 7 March 2013, NEWS,weblink Hollywood star Patrick Stewart backs domestic violence scholarship project, Atkinson, Neil, 10 September 2009, Huddersfield Examiner, 11 September 2009, Stewart's childhood experience also led him to become a patron of Refuge, a UK charity for abused women.NEWS, Stewart, Patrick, Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence, The Guardian, UK, November 2009,weblink 27 November 2009, 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.Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101103010547weblink">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart on Violence against Women, 9 October 2009, 15 November 2015, YouTube, Stewart, Patrick, {{cbignore}} He said, "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." 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." 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.NEWS, Stewart, Patrick, BBC Lifeline Appeal, BBC, UK, October 2011,weblink 14 October 2011, Stewart has supported the armed forces charity Combat Stress since learning about his father's post-traumatic stress disorder when researching his family genealogy for the documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?NEWS, Sir Patrick Stewart supports Combat Stress,weblink Combat Stress, combatstress.org.uk, March 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130813231108weblink">weblink 13 August 2013, 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,WEB,weblink Sir Patrick Stewart at UN Forum 2012 | United Nations Association of the UK, Una.org.uk, 14 July 2012, 15 January 2014, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131226224257weblink">weblink 26 December 2013, speaking of his father's experiences in the Second World War, and how he believed the UN was the best legacy of that period.WEB,weblink Lord Malloch-Brown and Sir Patrick Stewart address sold-out UN Forum | United Nations Association of the UK, Una.org.uk, 16 July 2012, 15 January 2014, On 15 April 2018 Stewart attended the launch event of the People's Vote, a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union.NEWS, Brexit: 'People's Vote' campaign group launched,weblink BBC News, 15 April 2018, 17 April 2018, In 2019, he acted as an International Rescue Committee spokesperson.WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart: Millions of refugees need our help, International Rescue Committee (IRC), 19 November 2019, 29 November 2019, Stewart is an avid advocate for pit bulls. He has fostered several dogs through Wags and Walks, a dog rescue in Los Angeles, and was honoured at the rescue's annual gala in 2018.WEB,weblink Sir Patrick Stewart to be Honored by Los Angeles Dog Rescue; Learn More about Wags and Walks, People, Bender, Kelli, 20 September 2018, 25 January 2020, He partnered with the ASPCA in 2017 for their National Dog Fighting Awareness Day Campaign.WEB, ASPCA,weblink ASPCA Partners with Sir Patrick Stewart for National Dog Fighting Awareness Day Campaign, 3 April 2017, 25 January 2020, He frequently tweets pictures of himself with his foster dogs.WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart on Twitter, 25 January 2020, In 2021, the ASPCA gave him their Pit Bull Advocate & Protector Award.WEB, Legendary Actor Patrick Stewart Honored with ASPCA Pit Bull Advocate & Protector Award,weblink ASPCA, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 24 October 2021,weblink 20 October 2021,

Personal life

Relationships and children

File:Patrick Stewart Met Opera 2010 Shankbone.jpg|thumb|upright|Stewart at the 2010 Metropolitan Opera's opening night of Das RheingoldDas RheingoldStewart married his first wife, Sheila Falconer, in 1966; they divorced in 1990.WEB,weblink PASSAGES: Ritter Remembered at Tribute, People, 4 August 2011, NEWS,weblinkweblink 25 May 2022, subscription, live, Patrick Stewart: 'People would never believe my father could be responsible for these things', The Independent, 29 August 2013, 12 December 2009, London, Together, they have a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Sophia. Daniel is also an actor,NEWS, Daniel Stewart: I don't want to get by on being Patrick Stewart's son,weblink Metro (British newspaper), Metro, 3 April 2012, and appeared alongside his father in the film Death Train, the sitcom Blunt Talk, and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "(The Inner Light (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Inner Light)", playing his son in the last.NEWS, Freydkin, Donna, Patrick Stewart gets 'Blunt' with his son,weblink USA Today, 26 August 2015, In the episode "(The Inner Light (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|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.In 1997, Stewart became engaged to American producer Wendy Neuss, one of the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. They married on 25 August 2000, and divorced three years later.{{refn|group="n"|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."}} Four months before his divorce from Neuss, Stewart co-starred with English actress Lisa Dillon in a production of The Master Builder, and the two were romantically involved until 2007.NEWS, Patrick Stewart boldly goes to 'Macbeth', 14 February 2008,weblink New York Daily News, Ellen, Tumposky, 19 April 2013, NEWS, Patrick Stewart: from captain to Hamlet, Times Online, 14 July 2008,weblink London, Jane, Wheatley, 22 May 2010, In 2008, Stewart began dating American singer and songwriter Sunny Ozell, whom he met while performing in Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.NEWS,weblink Ian McKellen to Lead Wedding for Patrick Stewart, The New York Times, 20 March 2013, 19 March 2013, Bob, Woletz, He purchased a home in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighbourhood in August 2012,NEWS, Kim, Velsey,weblink See Patrick Stewart's Park Slope Starship, New York Observer, 2 October 2012, 20 March 2013, and subsequently began living there with Ozell. In March 2013, it was reported that they were engaged, and they married in September 2013 with Ian McKellen officiating.NEWS,weblink Patrick Stewart Marries Sunny Ozell, Huffington Post, 8 September 2013, 8 September 2013, Leigh, Blickley, In 2020, Stewart revealed that his marriage to Ozell in Nevada had not been legally binding because McKellen's marriage credentials were not valid in Nevada.WEB, Patrick Stewart Got Married in a Mexican Restaurant,weblink The Hollywood Reporter, 13 March 2020, 4 April 2020, The couple subsequently held an impromptu and official second ceremony with McKellen at a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles shortly after the Nevada ceremony.

Beliefs, causes, and interests

Stewart has stated that his politics are rooted in a belief in "fairness" and "equality". He considers himself a socialist and is a member of the Labour Party.{{r|ind20030630}}NEWS,weblinkweblink 25 May 2022, subscription, live, Patrick Stewart: The X factor actor, The Independent, UK, 30 April 2006, NEWS,weblinkweblink 10 January 2022, subscription, live, Cassandra, Jardine, Cassandra Jardine, Patrick Stewart: interview, The Daily Telegraph, UK, 16 April 2010, {{cbignore}} He stated, "My father was a very strong trade unionist and those fundamental issues of Labour were ingrained into me." He was 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 for terrorist suspects. He signed an open letter of objection to this proposal in March 2008.WEB,weblink UK: Consensus against 42 days pre-trial detention grows as more names signal opposition, Amnesty international, UK, www.amnesty.org.uk, 31 March 2008, 20 September 2008, In August 2018 he was widely misquoted by the Daily Telegraph amongst others, who announced that he had left Labour owing to concerns over the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.NEWS,weblinkweblink 10 January 2022, subscription, live, Sir Patrick Stewart quits Labour Party and reveals 'awkward' encounter with Jeremy Corbyn, Gordon, Rayner, 16 August 2018, 24 April 2019, The Telegraph, {{cbignore}} He posted on Twitter to confirm that he had been misquoted and denied that he had left the party.WEB,weblink I deleted my previous tweet as I see there is some confusion. I have not resigned from the Labour Party and The New European did not misquote me. They did a first class interview, which was misinterpreted elsewhere., Stewart, Patrick, 20 August 2018, @SirPatStew, 5 December 2019, Stewart is an atheistWEB,weblink Atheist Patrick Stewart, 30 December 2015, BramptonGuardian.com, 25 April 2019, and a patron of Humanists UK.WEB,weblink Patrons: British Humanist Association, Humanism.org.uk, 15 January 2014, He also identifies as a feminist.WEB, Mackie, Bella, This is what a feminist really looks like,weblink The Guardian, 21 August 2013, 21 November 2014, He has publicly advocated the right to assisted suicide.NEWS,weblinkweblink 25 May 2022, subscription, live, London, The Independent, Diana, Pilkington, 'Star Trek' actor backs the right to choose assisted suicide, 18 April 2011, NEWS, Grant, Alistair, 21 June 2022, Sir Patrick Stewart urges MSPs to back assisted dying in Scotland, The Scotsman,weblink 25 August 2023, In January 2011, he became a patron for Dignity in Dying and campaigns for an assisted dying law in the UK.WEB,weblink Patrons, Dignity in Dying, 15 January 2014, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130701211419weblink">weblink 1 July 2013, In August 2014, Stewart was one of 200 public figures who signed a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.NEWS,weblink Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories, The Guardian, London, 7 August 2014, 26 August 2014, In 2016, Stewart was among more than 280 figures from the arts world who backed a vote to remain in the EU in the referendum on that issue.NEWS,weblinkweblink 25 May 2022, subscription, live, The celebrities that support Brexit (and the ones backing Remain), The Independent, 4 December 2018, On 2 March 2017, Stewart said he was going to apply for US citizenship to oppose the Trump administration.NEWS,weblinkweblink 25 May 2022, subscription, live, Sir Patrick Stewart is applying for U.S. citizenship so he can fight Donald Trump, The Independent, 3 March 2017, NEWS, Sir Patrick Stewart applying for US citizenship,weblink BBC, 3 March 2017, However, in an interview by the Press Association at the British Film Institute Luminous Fundraising Gala on 3 October 2017, he said that he hoped the US would pass stronger gun laws, but did not mention any intention of becoming an American citizen in furtherance of that hope.NEWS,weblink Sir Patrick Stewart: I hope for tighter gun laws in US after Las Vegas tragedy, The Chorley Citizen, 3 October 2017, 7 October 2017, Stewart is a lifelong supporter of his local football club Huddersfield Town A.F.C.NEWS,weblink Huddersfield Town Academy role for Sir Patrick Stewart, 5 March 2010, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 6 March 2010, He was at Wembley Stadium in 2017 when the club won promotion to the top division for the first time since 1972."Huddersfield Town wins promotion to Premier League, Patrick Stewart celebrates". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 30 May 2017 Since 2010, he has been president of Huddersfield Town Academy, the club's project for identifying and developing young talent.MAGAZINE,weblink Sir Patrick Stewart OBE Named Huddersfield Town Academy President, F.C. Business, 3 March 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170819073832weblink">weblink 19 August 2017, In an interview with American Theatre, he said, "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."In 2015, Stewart defended the Belfast-based Christian bakers who were penalised for discrimination after refusing to bake a cake with words reading, "Support Gay Marriage". Stewart, on his Facebook profile, said that while he was still opposed to organised religion, "It was not because it was a gay couple that they objected, it was not because they were celebrating some sort of marriage or an agreement between them. It was the actual words on the cake they objected to. Because they found the words offensive. I would support their rights to say 'No, this is personally offensive to my beliefs, I will not do it.'" The Christian bakers ultimately won in a landmark Supreme Court decision for the United Kingdom, almost simultaneously with a similar case in the United States.WEB,weblinkweblink 10 January 2022, subscription, live, Patrick Stewart defends Christian bakers in 'gay cake' controversy, Saffron, Alexander, 5 June 2015, 17 September 2019, The Telegraph, {{cbignore}}Stewart is an avid car enthusiast, and is regularly seen at Silverstone during British Grand Prix weekends. He conducted the podium interview with the top three finishers in the 2017 Canadian Grand Prix.WEB,weblink Post-race interview transcript, Canadian Grand Prix 2017, 24 April 2019, On a 2003 appearance on Top Gear, he set a lap time of 1 minute and 50 seconds on the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" feature. He holds a Motorsport UK competition licence and competed in the 2012 Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge race, finishing ninth, 3 m 02.808 s behind winner Kelvin Fletcher.NEWS,weblink SPEEDY CELEBS PUT ON A GREAT RACE AT SILVERSTONE & RAISE VITAL FUNDS FOR CHARITY, silverstoneclassic.com, 27 February 2013, Cleckheaton, 22 July 2012, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130522125550weblink">weblink 22 May 2013, During 2012, Stewart met his racing hero Stirling Moss for the BBC Two documentary Racing Legends.BBC Two's Racing Legends page. Retrieved 27 February 2013.Stewart is a fan of the Beavis and Butt-Head television series from Mike Judge.WEB,weblink Patrick Stewart An 'Obsessed' Beavis And Butthead Fan, 21 May 2004, Contactmusic.com, 2 June 2022,

Audiobooks

• 2005: The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
• 2006: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Audible)
• 2023: Making It So: A Memoir by himself

Books

• BOOK, Stewart, Patrick, Making It So: A Memoir, 2023, Gallery Books, 9781982167738, New York, NY, 1398633873, none,

Explanatory notes

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References

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Further reading

• MAGAZINE, Schulman, Michael, 15 November 2010, The Talk of the Town: The Boards: Roommates, The New Yorker, 86, 36, 36–?,weblink 28 January 2012,

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