Editing Patrick Stewart (section)

===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]]''.