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Patrick Hewes Stewart,
OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English
film,
television and
stage actor. He is also
Chancellor of the
University of Huddersfield.
He has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years, including performances as various characters in
Shakespearean productions. However, he is perhaps most widely known for his roles as Captain
Jean-Luc Picard of the starship
Enterprise in
Star Trek: The Next Generation and
Professor Xavier in the
X-Men films, a role which he reprised in the
X-Men Legends video games.
Biography
Early life
Stewart was born in
Mirfield,
, England, the son of Gladys (
née Barrowclough), a
weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a
Regimental Sergeant Major in the
British Army who served with the
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and previously worked as a general labourer and as a
postman.
