The actor, one of Britain’s finest stage performers, overcame a bleak childhood in England to achieve movie stardom, including for his role in the X-Men series.
London | Patrick Stewart, who rose from poverty in England to become a master Shakespearean actor and then in middle age achieve global stardom playing erudite Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and telepathic Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies, has died.
Stewart died at his home in Los Angeles, according to a statement on social media. He was 86.
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