Patrick Stewart

Patrick Hewes Stewart is a well-respected film, television and stage actor whose nearly fifty year career has seen him play a wide range of roles in a variety of mediums. Perhaps best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor X in the X-Men movie franchise, Stewart studied theater with the Royal Shakespeare Company before transitioning into film and television.

On Saturday December 19, 2009 it was rumored by the british newpaper The "British Mirror" That Patrick Stewart was to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. http://scifiwire.com/2009/12/makhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaUe-it-sir-star-treks-pa.php

If Stewart is knighted he would join X-Mens 's Ian McKellen who has also been bestowed the honor.

• "It was almost entirely a blessing. It introduced me to a world I never expected to be a part of — celebrity, fame, financial success. It also gave me the chance to work with the finest group of people I've ever known." - Speaking about working on Star Trek: The Next Generation

• Google News: Patrick Stewart
• Official Fanclub: Patrick Stewart Network News Briefs
• CNN: What Patrick Stewart does for fun (April 14, 2008)
• The New York Times: To Boldly Go Where Shakespeare Calls (January 27, 2008)
  • "Mr. Stewart's latest performance, in the title role of Rupert Goold's stunningly staged 'Macbeth,' which opened at the Chichester Festival last summer and sold out its subsequent West End run, has been his most celebrated so far. Now scheduled to open next month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater, the production inspired several British newspaper critics to pronounce it the "Macbeth" of a lifetime, the best they have ever seen."
• ITV: Patrick Stewart Interview
• Times Online: Patrick Stewart: Keep on trekkin' (November 4, 2007)
• Guardian Unlimited: "If it's Tuesday, I must be Hamlet" (2006)
• Telegraph.co.uk: "Shakespeare is coursing through me" (2007)
• The New York Times: "A Voice That Launched a Thousand Trips" (1991)

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• July 13, 1940: Born

• 1976: I, Claudius

• 1981: Excalibur

• 1984: Dune

• 1987-1994: Star Trek: The Next Generation

• 1993: Robin Hood: Men in Tights

• 1994: Star Trek: Generations

• 1994: The Pagemaster

• 1996: Star Trek: First Contact

• 1997: Conspiracy Theory

• 1998: Star Trek: Insurrection

• 1999: A Christmas Carol

• 2000: X-Men

• 2002: Star Trek: Nemesis

• 2003: X2

• 2006: Antony and Cleopatra

• 2006: X-Men: The Last Stand

• 2007: TMNT

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