10 of the Most Iconic Patrick Stewart Roles Beyond Captain Picard
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Sir Patrick Stewart, an actor equally at home onstage at the Royal Shakespeare Company and on the bridge of the Starship Enterpri se, has died at the age of 86. Unexpectedly for most of us, in part because he kept his final illness private, but more so because it once seemed as though nothing could fell the man who looms so large in our cultural consciousness. The thoughtful, erudite performer who had a troubled childhood in working-class Yorkshire; the committed socialist who was eventually knighted by Queen Elizabeth; the advocate who put his money and his considerable voice toward the fights for LGBTQ+ acceptance and animal welfare and against domestic violence, his presence and performances meant the world (the galaxy, even) to myself and so many others. But those who knew him personally can offer better tributes; perhaps it's best left to Shakespeare's Player King, performed by Stewart himself opposite David Warner's Ha...
