Sir Patrick Stewart, the British stage and screen actor best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, has died. He was 86.
\n\nStewart died Wednesday, October 28, at his home in Los Angeles following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia, his longtime spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak confirmed. He was surrounded by family and close friends.
\n\nBorn on July 13, 1940, in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, Stewart grew up in a working-class household marked by domestic violence. His father, a World War II veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation, suffered from severe combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. The experience had a profound effect on Stewart, later driving his public advocacy for domestic abuse survivors and veterans' mental health charities.
\n\nStewart turned to acting as a teenager after an English teacher introduced him to Shakespeare. At 15, he quit his job as a local newspaper reporter to pursue drama full-time, eventually securing a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 1966, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he spent over fifteen years performing classical theatre alongside contemporaries like Ben Kingsley and Ian McKellen.
\n\nHis career took an unexpected turn…
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