Editing Patrick Stewart (section)

==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|Bristol Old Vic Company]]), playing Cutpurse (a thief among the audience for the [[metatheatre|play-within-a-play]]) in ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'', directed by John Hale.<ref>{{cite news |last1=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |title=Large-scale 'Cyrano' at Bristol Old Vic |date=28 May 1959|work=[[The Stage]] |page=17}}</ref> Following a period with [[Manchester Central Library|Manchester's Library Theatre]], Stewart became a member of the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] in 1966, remaining with them until 1982.<ref name=sbt/> He was an associate artist of the company in 1967.<ref name=ghost>{{cite web |url=http://www.rsc.org.uk/whatson/7514.aspx |title=Patrick plays the Ghost and Claudius in Hamlet |website=Royal Shakespeare Company |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409080926/http://www.rsc.org.uk/whatson/7514.aspx |archive-date=9 April 2010 |access-date=2 January 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 (Hamlet)|Horatio]], opposite Ian Richardson's [[Hamlet]], in a performance of the gravedigger scene as part of episode six of Sir [[Kenneth Clark]]'s ''[[Civilisation (TV series)|Civilisation]]'' television series.<ref>{{cite video |people=Kenneth Clark |title=Civilisation |medium=Television production |publisher=BBC |location=London, UK. |year=1969}}</ref> During the early 1970s, [[University of California, Santa Barbara|UCSB]] professor Homer Swander recruited him to help teach American university students about Shakespeare, which led to his breakthrough into Hollywood.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stewart |first1=Patrick |title=Homer Swander obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/mar/06/homer-swander-obituary |access-date=24 September 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=6 March 2018}}</ref> He made his Broadway debut as [[Tom Snout|Snout]] in [[Peter Brook]]'s [[RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970)|legendary 1970 production]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Bennett |first=Susan |title=Performing nostalgia: shifting Shakespeare and the contemporary past |publisher=Routledge |location=London |year=1996 |page=[https://archive.org/details/performingnostal0000benn/page/18 18] |isbn=978-0-415-07326-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/performingnostal0000benn/page/18 }}</ref> 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 (TV series)|I, Claudius]]'';<ref name="TNGComp18">{{cite book |last1=Nemecek |first1=Larry |editor1-first=Dave |editor1-last=Stern |title=The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion |year=1992 |publisher=Pocket Books |location=New York|isbn=978-0-671-79460-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/startreknextgene00neme/page/18 18] |chapter=Rebirth |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/startreknextgene00neme/page/18 }}</ref> [[Karla (character)|Karla]] in ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries)|Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' and ''[[Smiley's People (miniseries)|Smiley's People]]''; [[King Claudius|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 (1854 novel)|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 [[Leondegrance|King Leondegrance]] in [[John Boorman]]'s ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'' (1981),<ref name="TNGComp18" /> the character [[Gurney Halleck]] in [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]'' (1984),<ref name="TNGComp18" /> Dr. Armstrong in [[Tobe Hooper]]'s ''[[Lifeforce (film)|Lifeforce]]'' (1985) and [[Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk|Henry Grey]] in ''[[Lady Jane (1986 film)|Lady Jane]]'' (1986), the story of English Queen [[Lady Jane Grey]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Robison |first1=William B. |last2=Parrill |first2=Sue |author2-link=Sue Parrill |title=The Tudors on Film and Television |date=2013 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, NC |isbn=978-0-7864-5891-2 |page=130}}</ref>

Stewart preferred classical theatre to other genres, asking ''[[Doctor Who]]'' actress [[Lalla Ward]] why she would work in science fiction or on television.<ref name="bbcward">{{cite interview |title=Lalla Ward |access-date=1 April 2016 |last=Ward |first=Lalla |subject-link=Lalla Ward |interviewer=McGann, Paul |work=K9 & Co. |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/interviews/ward/index.html}}</ref> 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 [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]].{{r|brady19920405}}<ref name="bbcjustman">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/justman/printpage.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021128164745/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/justman/printpage.html |archive-date=28 November 2002 |title=Robert Justman – Co-Producer Co-Creator of Star Trek |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 May 2011}}</ref> 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}}<ref name="appleyard20071104">{{cite news |publisher=News Corp. |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article2785374.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511195800/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article2785374.ece |archive-date=11 May 2008 |title=Patrick Stewart: Keep on Trekkin' |work=The Sunday Times |date=4 November 2007 |access-date=27 April 2011 |last=Appleyard |first=Bryan |location=London}}</ref>{{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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sharf |first1=Zack |title=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!' |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/ian-mckellen-patrick-stewart-reject-star-trek-stay-in-theater-1235743624/ |website=Variety.com |date=3 October 2023 |publisher=Variety |access-date=22 October 2023}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="var12">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/features/thomas-middleditch-patrick-stewart-silicon-valley-blunt-talk-1201794682/ |title=Thomas Middleditch and Patrick Stewart on Doing Standup, Nicknames and Crazy Fan Encounters |first=Debra |last=Birnbaum |date=14 June 2016|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

===Film and TV career (1987–present)===
====''Star Trek: The Next Generation''====
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[[File:Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart.jpg|thumb|Stewart with ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek]]'' co-star [[Brent Spiner]] in 2010]]

When 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,<ref name="day20121226">{{cite news |url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/12/26/patrick-stewart-next-generation-x-men-and-hollywood-history/ |title=Patrick Stewart: 'Next Generation,' 'X-Men' and Hollywood history |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=4 November 2019|last=Day |first=Patrick Kevin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201220119/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/12/26/patrick-stewart-next-generation-x-men-and-hollywood-history/ |archive-date=1 February 2013 }}</ref> he was unprepared for the long schedule of television production<ref name="bbcstewart">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/stewart/printpage.html |title=Patrick Stewart – Jean Luc Picard, Captain of the Enterprise |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926232634/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/stewart/printpage.html |archive-date=26 September 2013}}</ref> that began at 4:45 am each day.{{r|brady19920405}} He initially experienced difficulty fitting in with his less-disciplined castmates. In interviews, he recalled with embarrassment a time when he scolded the main cast for being unprofessional in his opinion, by saying "We're not here... to have fun!"<ref>{{cite web |last1=McMillan |first1=Graeme |title=Patrick Stewart's rocky start on Star Trek: The Next Generation: "We are not here to have fun" |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/patrick-stewart-star-trek-the-next-generation-not-here-to-have-fun |website=Popverse |date=3 October 2023 |access-date=12 November 2023}}</ref>{{r|lyall20080127}} Furthermore, Stewart has stated that his "spirits used to sink" whenever 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}} 

Stewart 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.<ref name="sirtis">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/sirtis/printpage.html |title=Marina Sirtis – Star Trek: The Next Generation's empathetic Counsellor |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 May 2011}}</ref> [[Jonathan Frakes]] said that, with some shows he'd been on, there were actors who showed up without having read the script, but Stewart had "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".<ref name="marsh20190124">{{cite web |last=Marsh |first=Calum |date=24 January 2019 |title=Star Trek Legend Jonathan Frakes on Life As an Actor's Director |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/star-trek-jonathan-frakes-director-interview.html |access-date=14 January 2023 |website=Vulture }}</ref>

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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. |source =Stewart, on when he realised he had become famous{{r|bbcstewart}} }}

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 ten weeks of ''Woolf'' in London.<ref name="brady19920405">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UlhPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5604%2C1577738 |title=In Step With: Patrick Stewart |work=Parade |date=5 April 1992 |access-date=28 April 2011 |last=Brady |first=James |page=21}}</ref> 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]."<ref name="bbcfiveminutes">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13160867 |title=Five Minutes With: Patrick Stewart |work=BBC |date=23 April 2011 |access-date=2 June 2011 |page=1}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/S/Stewart_Patrick/1997/08/17/pf-761995.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709150749/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/S/Stewart_Patrick/1997/08/17/pf-761995.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=9 July 2012 |title=Patrick Stewart at the controls |access-date=14 January 2008 |first=Tyler |last=McLeod |date=17 August 1997 |work=CANOE}}</ref> 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.<ref name="dn19920713">{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/236846/BOLD-BALD-ACTOR-VOTED-TVS-MOST-BODACIOUS-MAN.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125212224/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/236846/BOLD-BALD-ACTOR-VOTED-TVS-MOST-BODACIOUS-MAN.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 November 2011 |title=Bold, Bald Actor Voted TV's Most Bodacious Man |work=Deseret News |date=13 July 1992 |access-date=7 May 2011 |location=Salt Lake City, Utah}}</ref><ref name="bbcfrakes">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/frakes/printpage.html |title=Jonathan Frakes – The Next Generation's Number One, Will Riker, and Trek director |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 May 2011}}</ref><ref name=ind20030630>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/patrick-stewart-the-spirit-of-enterprise-542354.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812055703/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/patrick-stewart-the-spirit-of-enterprise-542354.html |archive-date=12 August 2011 |work=The Independent |location=London |title=Patrick Stewart: The spirit of Enterprise |date=30 June 2003 |access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17880 |title=mental_floss Blog " 3 Bald encounters on the set of Star Trek |work=Mentalfloss.com |date=25 August 2008 |access-date=2 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728173103/http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17880 |archive-date=28 July 2009}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/pXOK-ZVJMaU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907142702/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU |title=at 0:34 |website=Youtube |date=19 July 2007 |access-date=2 May 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

{{quote box|align=right|salign=right|style=width:40%|"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.|source=– Interview, ''[[The Times]]''{{r|appleyard20071104}}}}

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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."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2018/08/04/patrick-stewart-to-reprise-star-trek-role-in-new-series.html |title=Patrick Stewart to reprise 'Star Trek' role in new series |work=Toronto Star |date=4 August 2018 |access-date=5 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/08/05/patrick-stewart-returns-star-trek-ascaptain-jean-luc-picard/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/08/05/patrick-stewart-returns-star-trek-ascaptain-jean-luc-picard/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Patrick Stewart returns to Star Trek as Captain Jean-Luc Picard |date=5 August 2018 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=5 August 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

====''X-Men'' film series====
The success of the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' TV and film franchises [[typecasting (acting)|typecast]] Stewart as Picard and obtaining other roles became difficult.{{r|appleyard20071104}}<ref name="portsmouth20100413">{{cite news |url=http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/what-s-on/patrick-stewart-can-t-wait-for-chichester-role-1-1249400 |title=Patrick Stewart can't wait for Chichester role |work=Portsmouth News |date=13 April 2010 |access-date=1 April 2016}}</ref> 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 (film)|Logan]]'']]
However, in the late 1990s he accepted a key role in the big-budget [[X-Men (film series)|''X-Men'' film series]], as [[Charles Xavier (film series character)|Professor Charles Xavier]], founder and mentor of the superhero team, a role similar in many ways to Picard.<ref name="appleyard20071104" /> He was initially reluctant to sign on to another movie franchise, but his interest in working with director [[Bryan Singer]] persuaded him.<ref name="appleyard20071104" /> 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 [[supervillain]] [[Magneto (Marvel Comics)|Magneto]]. Stewart has played the role in seven feature films (''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'', ''[[X2 (film)|X2]]'', ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand]]'', ''[[X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'', ''[[The Wolverine (film)|The Wolverine]]'', ''[[X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'' and ''[[Logan (film)|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 (film)|Logan]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Collis |first1=Clark |title=Patrick Stewart says he's retiring from X-Men franchise: 'I'm done' |url=http://comicbook.com/2017/02/24/patrick-stewart-retiring-x-men-movies-xavier/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=25 February 2017}}</ref>

In 2022, Stewart portrayed Professor Xavier of Earth-838 in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] film ''[[Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness]].''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Abdulbaki |first1=Mae |title=Doctor Strange's Illuminati Members Explained: New Origins, Actors & Powers |url=https://screenrant.com/doctor-strange-multiverse-madness-illuminati-identity-powers-2/ |access-date=6 May 2022 |work=Screen Rant |date=5 May 2022 }}</ref> He is reprising his role in the upcoming film ''[[Avengers: Doomsday]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=26 March 2025 |title=Marvel Confirming 'Avengers: Doomsday' Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Paul Rudd, Letitia Wright, Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby & More…. |url=https://deadline.com/2025/03/avengers-doomsday-cast-1236351122/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250326161401/https://deadline.com/2025/03/avengers-doomsday-cast-1236351122/ |archive-date=26 March 2025 |access-date=26 March 2025 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref>

====Documentaries====
In 2011, Stewart appeared in the feature-length documentary ''[[The Captains (film)|The Captains]]'' alongside [[William Shatner]] (who played ''Star Trek'' Captain [[James T. Kirk|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|''Star Trek'' Convention]] in [[Las Vegas Valley|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Exclusive Clips from William Shatner's 'The Captains' |url=http://trekmovie.com/2011/07/18/exclusive-clips-from-william-shatners-the-captains-how-to-watch-doc-for-free-online/ |work=Trekmovie.com}}</ref> In 2016, he narrated ''Connected Universe'', a crowdfunded documentary film directed by Malcolm Carter on the ideas of self-styled physicist Nassim Haramein.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/patrick-stewart-narrates-connected-universe-932045 |title=Patrick Stewart Narrating New Documentary 'The Connected Universe' |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=22 September 2016 |access-date=27 November 2016}}</ref>

====Other film and television====
[[File:PatrickStew211023 (3 of 23) (53275039331) (cropped).jpg|upright|thumb|Stewart in 2023]]
Stewart's other film and television roles include the flamboyantly gay Sterling in the 1995 film ''[[Jeffrey (1995 film)|Jeffrey]]'' and [[Henry II of England|King Henry II]] in ''[[The Lion in Winter (2003 film)|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 [[Ahab (Moby-Dick)|Captain Ahab]] in the 1998 made-for-television film version of ''[[Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)|Moby Dick]]'', receiving an Emmy Award nomination<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/patrick-stewart |title=Patrick Stewart Emmy Winner |work=Emmys.com |access-date=15 January 2014}}</ref> and Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance. He starred in the 1998 film ''[[Safe House (1998 film)|Safe House]]''. He also starred as [[Ebenezer Scrooge|Scrooge]] in a 1999 [[A Christmas Carol (1999 film)|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 Crane|Frasier]] for a potential lover. In July 2003, he appeared in Series 2 (Episode 09) of ''[[Top Gear (2002 TV series)|Top Gear]]'' in the [[Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car]] segment, achieving a time of 1:50 in the [[Suzuki Liana|Liana]]. In 2005, he was cast as Professor Ian Hood in an [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] thriller 4-episode series ''[[Eleventh Hour (UK TV 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 ''[[Mysterious Island (2005 film)|The Mysterious Island]]''. Stewart also appeared as a nudity-obsessed caricature of himself in [[Ricky Gervais]] and [[Stephen Merchant]]'s television series ''[[Extras (TV series)|Extras]]''. He played [[John Bosley (Charlie's Angels)|John Bosley]] in the 2019 action comedy film ''[[Charlie's Angels (2019 film)|Charlie's Angels]]'', released on 15 November.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/patrick-stewart-to-play-bosley-in-charlies-angels-exclusive/ar-BBNt3Q8 |title=Patrick Stewart to Play Bosley in 'Charlie's Angels' (Exclusive) |website=www.msn.com |access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref>

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 (2005 film)|Chicken Little]]'', ''[[The Pagemaster]]'', ''[[The Emoji Movie]]'', ''[[Dragon Rider (film)|Dragon Rider]]'',  the English [[dubbing (filmmaking)|dubbings]] of the Japanese [[anime]] films ''[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)|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 (Animal Farm)|Napoleon]] in a [[Animal Farm (1999 film)|made-for-TV film adaptation]] of [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Animal Farm]]'' and guest starred in the ''[[The Simpsons|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 [[Curriculum vitae|CV]] as a Shakespearean actor, causing him to miss opportunities to play such notable roles as [[Prince Hamlet|Hamlet]], [[Romeo Montague|Romeo]], and [[Richard III (play)|Richard III]].{{r|appleyard20071104}}{{r|lyall20080127}} Instead, Stewart began writing [[one-man show]]s 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.<ref name="collins19911215">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/15/theater/theater-a-voice-that-launched-a-thousand-trips.html |title=A Voice That Launched a Thousand Trips |work=The New York Times |date=15 December 1991 |access-date=28 April 2011 |last=Collins |first=Glenn}}</ref>

[[File:Patrick Stewart signing autographs.jpg|upright|left|thumb|Stewart signing autographs following a production of ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the [[Royal Shakespeare Company|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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dramadesk.com/1991_1992dd.html |title=1991–1992 38th Drama Desk Awards |access-date=1 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080704130634/http://www.dramadesk.com/1991_1992dd.html |archive-date=4 July 2008}}</ref> 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 [[September 11 attacks|11 September]] campaign of the [[Actors Fund of America]].<ref>{{cite web |author-link1=Robert Simonson |last1=Simonson |first1=Robert |title=Patrick Stewart Returns to Broadway with One-Man A Christmas Carol, Dec. 24–30 |url=https://www.playbill.com/news/article/patrick-stewart-returns-to-broadway-with-one-man-a-christmas-carol-dec.-24--99806 |work=[[Playbill]] |date=17 November 2001 |access-date=30 March 2018}}</ref> 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 [[Theatrical producer|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 (play)|No Man's Land]]'']]
Shakespeare roles during this period included [[Prospero]] in Shakespeare's ''[[The Tempest (play)|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rsc.org.uk/newsandevents/events/2193.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115221701/http://www.rsc.org.uk/newsandevents/events/2193.aspx |archive-date=15 January 2008 |title=The Tempest |date=21 July 2005 |publisher=Royal Shakespeare Company |access-date=20 September 2008}}</ref> In 1997, he took the role of [[Othello (character)|Othello]] with the [[Shakespeare Theatre Company]] (Washington, D.C.) in a [[Race-reversed casting|"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.<ref name="BMC1">{{cite web |url=http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/jacobus/content/cat_960/RaceAndOthello.htm?v=category&i=00960.01&s=00960&n=99000&o= |title=The Issue of Race and Othello |work=Bcs.bedfordstmartins.com |access-date=2 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716171355/http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/jacobus/content/cat_960/RaceAndOthello.htm?v=category&i=00960.01&s=00960&n=99000&o= |archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref name="Othelloby">{{cite web |url=http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/details.aspx?id=44&source=l |title=Othello by William Shakespeare directed by Jude Kelly |publisher=The Shakespeare Theatre Company |access-date=20 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108233725/http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/details.aspx?id=44&source=l |archive-date=8 January 2009}}</ref>

{{Quote box|width=300px|align=left|salign=right|quote=[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.|source=''The New York Times'', 2008{{r|lyall20080127}}}}

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 (Macbeth)|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}}<ref name="lyall20080127">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/theater/27lyal.html?pagewanted=all |title=To Boldly Go Where Shakespeare Calls |work=The New York Times |date=27 January 2008 |access-date=27 April 2011 |last=Lyall |first=Sarah}}</ref> He was named as the next [[Cameron Mackintosh]] Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]] in January 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/070117.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526203531/http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/070117.shtml |archive-date=26 May 2008 |title=Patrick Stewart named Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor at Oxford |publisher=[[University of Oxford]] |date=17 January 2007 |access-date=20 September 2008}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |author=Staff |date=8 March 2009 |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/03-2009/speeches-and-the-laurence-olivier-winners-said_18513.html |title=Speeches: And the Laurence Olivier Winners Said |work=WhatsonStage.com |access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Cav">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/dominiccavendish/5083707/Sir-Ian-McKellen-and-Patrick-Stewart-on-Waiting-For-Godot.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403012126/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/dominiccavendish/5083707/Sir-Ian-McKellen-and-Patrick-Stewart-on-Waiting-For-Godot.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 April 2009 |title=Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot |last=Cavendish |first=Dominic |date=31 March 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=UK |access-date=8 July 2009}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Cav" /> Reviewers stated that his interpretation captured well the balance between humour and despair that characterises the work.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/08iht-LON8.html |title=McKellen and Stewart Deliver a 'Godot' With a Difference |last=Wolf |first=Matt |date=7 May 2009 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=8 July 2009 |quote=...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.}}</ref> 

In 2014, Stewart and McKellen appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] with two alternating productions, ''Waiting for Godot'' and ''[[No Man's Land (play)|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 hat]]s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hosmer |first1=Katie |title=Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart Act Like NYC Tourists |url=https://mymodernmet.com/ian-mckellen-patrick-stewart-nyc-tourist-photos/ |website=My Modern Met |date=3 April 2014 |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref> 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 emphasising his sense of humour, which led to frequent guest appearances in various comedy programs.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Reilly |first1=Terry |title=The Show Must Go On: Broadway Marketing |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/the-percentage-of-broadway-shows-that-break-even-may-surprise-you-1.6051734 |website=CBC |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref>

Stewart has been a prolific actor in performances by the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]], appearing in more than 60 productions.<ref name=sbt>{{cite web |title=RSC performances Patrick Stewart |url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/view_as/list/search/rsc_person:patrick-stewart/page/4 |website=[[Shakespeare Birthplace Trust]] |access-date=18 July 2022}}</ref> His first appearance was in 1966 in ''[[The Investigation (play)|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.<ref name="Trowbridge">{{cite book |last=Trowbridge |first=Simon |title=Stratfordians: a Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company |publisher=Editions Albert Creed |location=Oxford, England |year=2008 |pages=471–473 |isbn=978-0-9559830-1-6}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mousetrap celebrates 60 years with gala performance |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20385087 |access-date=26 November 2022 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

===Voice work===
[[File:Patrick Stewart 2012.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Stewart at the 2012 [[Peabody Awards]]]]
Known for his strong and authoritative voice, Stewart has lent his voice to a number of projects. He has narrated recordings of [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]'s ''[[Peter and the Wolf]]'' (winning a [[Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children|Grammy]]), [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]]'s ''[[The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)|The Four Seasons]]'' (which had also been narrated by [[William Shatner]]<ref>The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), [[The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)#Derivative works|derivative works]] (1987, 1995)</ref>), [[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''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tky2t |title=Mountain Gorilla (2010) |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 July 2011}}</ref> He is heard as the voice of the Magic Mirror in [[Disneyland Park (Anaheim)|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 [[video game|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 Awards|Spike TV Video Game Award]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oblivion-war-rule-at-spike-145930|title='Oblivion,' 'War' rule at Spike video game awards|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=11 December 2006|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> for his work as Emperor Uriel Septim. He also lent his voice to several editions of the ''[[Compton's Encyclopedia|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 (United Kingdom)|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]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Boyes |first=Emma |url=http://www.gamespot.com/news/6165967.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=morenews&tag=morenews;title;1 |title=Patrick Stewart voicing FFXII ads |work=Gamespot.com |date=15 February 2007 |access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref>

Stewart used his voice for [[Pontiac (automobile)|Pontiac]] and [[Porsche]] cars and [[MasterCard]] Gold commercials in 1996, and [[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company|Goodyear]] Assurance Tyres in 2004. He also did voice-overs for RCA televisions. He provided the voice of Max Winters in ''[[TMNT (film)|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 cinematic introduction and trailer released on 22 March 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/147403/cue-the-patrick-stewart-voiceover-the-sims-machin.html |title=Cue the Patrick Stewart Voiceover: The Sims Machine Marches On |date=25 March 2011 |access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> He also voiced the story plaques and trailer of the [[MMOG]] ''[[LEGO Universe]]'' and the narrator of ''My Memory Of Us''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.engadget.com/2018-08-15-patrick-stewart-will-narrate-holocaust-game-my-memory-of-us.html |title=Patrick Stewart will narrate Holocaust game 'My Memory of Us' |date=15 August 2018 |access-date=22 June 2020}}</ref>