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Patrick Stewart Bio
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Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart was born July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England but spent most of his time in Jarrow. He made his stage debut at the age of nine in a local history pageant portraying Tom of Towngate. By the age of twelve, he had entered the secondary modern school where he studied drama. It is said that Stewart got the urge to act around this time when he read Shylock aloud to his class. After the reading, his teacher commented that he had a flair for dramatics, and that he should consider it for a living. Stewart is quoted as saying it was the “greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
At the age of fifteen, Stewart dropped out of school to accommodate his increasing involvement in local theater. To earn money, he took a job as a newspaper reporter, but it only lasted one year. His employer offered Stewart an ultimatum between acting and journalism when he discovered that Stewart would attend rehearsals during the day and simply make up his news stories. Stewart quit the job.
By sixteen, he was selling furniture. He used his earnings to fund a two year acting course at Bristol Old Vic Theater School. When he was nineteen, Stewart’s hair began to fall out (a condition which runs in his family) and he obtained his signature baldness. Despite the hair loss, Stewart still impressed theater producers, rumored to perform auditions with and without a wig and promoting himself as two actors for the price of one. Stewart joined the Manchester Library Theater for a short time but eventually found himself with the Royal Shakespeare Company opposite such actors as Ben Kingsley and Ian Richardson.
Throughout the 1970s, Stewart worked many small roles in television and film. In 1974, he appeared in Antony and Cleopatra as well as Fall of Eagles and The Gathering Storm. In 1975, Stewart debuted in his first film entitled Hennessy, and back to television again for North and South.
In the 1980s, Stewart moved to the Royal National Theater and he continued acting in his previous manner—many and various smaller and/or low profile roles. In 1980, he appeared in Little Lord Fauntleroy with Alec Guinness and a very young Rick Schroder. The following year saw him starring in Excalibur. In 1984, Stewart scored a commercial success in David Lynch’s adaptation Dune. However, many of his scenes were cut in an attempt to shorten the already immensely long film.
But it was 1987 that would make Stewart a household name after so many years of paying his acting dues. He moved to Los Angeles to star in Star Trek: The Next Generation in his immortalized role Captain Jean-Luc Picard. The show would run from 1987 to 1994, and Stewart was involved in every season. Capitalizing on the success of his character, he reprised his Picard role for several spin-offs including Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).
However, it is not just inside the world of Star Trek that Stewart found success. In 1991, he played a small part in L.A. Story with Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kevin Pollak. Still mainly preoccupied as Picard, Stewart worked mostly smaller roles during this period. But in 1997, he co-starred in Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. For his role, Stewart won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor. In 1998, he starred as Captain Ahab in the television production Moby Dick. Stewart earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries.
In 2000, Stewart’s career would receive a huge resurgence when he starred as Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men, opposite an all-star cast of Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn and Halle Berry. Stewart was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor and another Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor. He would reprise this role in X2 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). In 2006, Stewart played himself in the Ricky Gervais television production Extras for which he was nominated for another Emmy. He is currently filming The Water Warriors and Star Trek: Legacy. He has also announced a kind of X-Men prequel entitled Magneto.
Throughout Stewart’s career, his recognizable and authoritative voice has been useful for theater and voice projects. Stewart maintains that while he enjoys film, he thrives on theater.
Unrelated to his acting, Stewart is also the Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield. In 2001 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, commonly known as OBE.
Stewart has been married twice. His first marriage was to Sheila Falconer from 1966 to 1990. The couple had two children. His second marriage was to Wendy Neuss from 2000 to 2003.
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