Patrick Stewart, Star Trek and X-Men actor and acclaimed British actor, has died . He was 86.
The Yorkshire born actor was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 16 years. Stewart became a global star when, aged 47, he was cast as a Capt Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: the Next Generation, the 1980s live-action reboot of the classic 1960s sci-fi TV series. In 2000 he played Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men for the first time, a role to which he would repeatedly return.
He received two Laurence Olivier awards – in 1979, for Antony and Cleopatra, and in 2009 for Hamlet – as well as a Grammy in 1996 for a spoken word children’s album Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf. He was also nominated for a Tony and four Emmys.
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