Sir Patrick Stewart (born July 13, 1940) is an English actor. With a career spanning over seven decades of stage and screen, he has received various accolades, including two Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama in 2010.
He made his film debut in Don Sharp’s Hennessy (1975), with Rod Steiger, Trevor Howard, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Peter Egan, Stanley Lebor, and Patsy Kensit. Other early films include Trevor Nunn’s Hedda (1975), with Glenda Jackson, Timothy West, Peter Eyre, and Jennie Linden; John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981), with Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicol Williamson, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey, Robert Addie, Gabriel Byrne, and Liam Neeson; David Lynch’s Dune (1984), with Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Silvana Mangano, Everett McGill, Kenneth McMillan, Jack Nance, Siân Phillips, Jürgen Prochnow, Paul Smith, Sting, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow, Alicia Witt, and Sean Young; Peter Hunt’s Wild Geese II (1985), with Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier, Robert Freitag, Kenneth Haigh, Stratford Johns, Derek Thompson, and Robert Webber; Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce (1985), with Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, and Mathilda May; Code Name: Emerald (1986), with Ed Harris, von Sydow, Horst Buchholz, Helmut Berger, Cyrielle Clair, and Eric Stoltz; and Lady Jane (1986), with Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, Jane Lapotaire, Sara Kestelman, Michael Hordern, John Wood, and Joss Ackland.
He gained worldwide acclaim for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the science-fiction TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 1994), with Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, and Wil Wheaton. He would also play the role in the films Star Trek Generations (1994), with Malcolm McDowell, Whoopi Goldberg, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, and William Shatner; Star Trek: First Contact (1996), with Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, and Alice Krige; Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), with F. Murray Abraham, Donna Murphy, and Anthony Zerbe; and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), with Tom Hardy, Ron Perlman, and Dina Meyer. He returned to the role in the series Star Trek: Picard (2020 – 2023), with Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Jeri Ryan, Orla Brady, and Ed Speleers.
He is also well known for portraying Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men (2000), with Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Bruce Davison, Rebecca Romijn, Ray Park, and Anna Paquin; X2 (2003), with Jackman, McKellen, Berry, Janssen, Marsden, Romijn, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Bruce Davison, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Kelly Hu, and Paquin; X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Jackman, Berry, McKellen, Janssen, Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, Marsden, Romijn, Ashmore, Stanford, and Vinnie Jones; a cameo in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), with with Jackman, Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, and Ryan Reynolds; a cameo in James Mangold’s The Wolverine (2013), with Jackman, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto, Hiroyuki Sanada, Will Yun Lee and Famke Janssen; X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), with Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Berry, Paquin, Elliot Page, Peter Dinklage, and McKellen; Logan (2017), and a cameo in Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), with Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Rachel McAdams.
Other films of the 1990s include L.A. Story (1991), with Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilou Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kevin Pollak, Sam McMurray, plus uncredited cameos by Chevy Chase, Woody Harrelson, Paula Abdul, Martin Lawrence, Rick Moranis, and Terry Jones; Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), with Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Dave Chappelle, Isaac Hayes, Tracey Ullman, and Mel Brooks (who also directed); Gunmen (1994), with Mario Van Peebles, Christopher Lambert, Denis Leary, and Kadeem Hardison; Jeffrey (1995), with Steven Weber, Michael T. Weiss, Bryan Batt, and Sigourney Weaver; Let It Be Me (1995), with Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals, Yancy Butler, Leslie Caron, and James Goodwin; Richard Donner’s Conspiracy Theory (1997), with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts; Masterminds (1997), with Vincent Kartheiser, Brenda Fricker, Brad Whitford, and Matt Craven; and Dad Savage (1998), with Kevin McKidd, Helen McCrory, Joe McFadden, Marc Warren, and Jake Wood.
Other films in the 2000s include Rashef Levi’s Hunting Elephants (2013), with Sasson Gabai and Moni Moshonov; Stephen Belber’s Match (2014), with Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard; Christmas Eve (2015), with James Roday, Julianna Guill, Jon Heder, Cheryl Hines, and Gary Cole; Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room (2015), with Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, and Callum Turner; Damien Harris’s The Wilde Wedding (2017), with Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Minnie Driver; Joe Cornish’s The Kid Who Would Be King (2019), with Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Tom Taylor, Dean Chaumoo, Rhianna Doris, Angus Imrie, and Rebecca Ferguson; Charlie’s Angels (2019), with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, Elizabeth Banks (who also directed), Djimon Hounsou, Sam Claflin, and Noah Centineo; and Coda (2019), with Katie Holmes and Giancarlo Esposito.
He received 2 Emmy nominations for his performances in Moby Dick (1998), with Henry Thomas, Levine, Bruce Spence, Hugh Keays-Byrne, and Gregory Peck; The Lion in Winter (2004), with Close, Andrew Howard, John Light, and Rafe Spall; and Hamlet (2010), with David Tennant. He also recurved a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for the tv series Blunt Talk (2015 – 2016), with Jacki Weaver, Adrian Scarborough, Dolly Wells, Timm Sharp, Mary Holland, and Karan Soni.
Other TV movies and miniseries include I, Claudius (1976), with Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, Margaret Tyzack, John Hurt, Patricia Quinn, Ian Ogilvy, Kevin McNally, and John Rhys-Davies; John Irvin’s Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (1979), with Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell, and Michael Aldridge; Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980), with inness, Rick Schroder, Eric Porter, Connie Booth, and Colin Blakely; Pope John Paul II (1984), with Albert Finney, Caroline Bliss, Brian Cox, John Forgeham, and Nigel Hawthorne; Death Train (1994), with Pierce Brosnan, Christopher Lee, Ted Levine, and Alexandra Paul; The Canterville Ghost (1996), with Neve Campbell; Safe House (1998), with Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Héctor Elizondo; A Christmas Carol (1999), with Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice, and Dominic West; King of Texas (2002), with Marcia Gay Harden, Lauren Holly, Julie Cox, Roy Scheider, David Alan Grier, Colm Meaney, and Patrick Bergen; Russell Mulcahy’s Mysterious Island (2005), with MacLachlan and Gabrielle Anwar; and Macbeth (2010), with Kate Fleetwood.
He’s also well known for voicing Avery Bullock on the animated sitcom American Dad! (2005 – ), with Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane, Dee Bradley Baker, and Jeff Fischer. Other notable voice roles include The Plague Dogs (1982), with Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, and James Bolam; the 2005 English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), with Alison Lohman, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Chris Sarandon, Edward James Olmos, Tress McNielle, Frank Welker, Jeff Bennett, Mark Silverman, James Arnold Taylor, Emily Bauer, Mark Hamill, and Jodi Benson; The Pagemaster (1994), with Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Welker, Ed Begley Jr., and Mel Harris; The Prince of Egypt (1998), with Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Mirren, Martin, and Martin Short; Animal Farm (1999), with Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield, Charles Dale, Pete Postlethwaite, Alan Stanford, and Peter Ustinov; Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), with Debi Derryberry, Short, Rob Paulsen, Jeffrey Garcia, and Carolyn Lawrence; Chicken Little (2005), with Zach Braff, Joan Cusack, Dan Molina, Steve Zahn, Garry Marshall, Amy Sedaris, Mark Walton, and Don Knotts; the English dub of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Steamboy (2004), with Paquin, Kari Wahlgren, and Alfred Molina; Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), with McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Maggie Smith, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Matt Lucas, Jim Cummings, Julie Walters, Richard Wilson, and Ozzy Osbourne; Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012), with Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Leary, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Dinklage, Wanda Sykes, Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Nick Frost, Aziz Ansari, and Alan Tudyk; Ted (2012), with Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, MacFarlane (who also directed), Joel McHale, and Giovanni Ribisi; Spark (2016), with Jace Norman, Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, Susan Sarandon, Jace Norman and Alan C. Peterson; The Emoji Movie (2017), with T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Jake T. Austin, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, and Sean Hayes; and Dragon Rider (2020), with Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Felicity Jones, and Freddie Highmore.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- The Gathering Storm (1974) – directed by Herbert Wise – TV movie
- Hennessy (1975) – directed by Don Sharp
- Hedda (1975) – directed by Trevor Nunn
- North & South (1975) – directed by Rodney Bennett – miniseries
- The Madness (1976) – directed by James Cellan Jones – TV movie
- I, Claudius (1976) – directed by Herbert Wise – miniseries
- A Question of Faith (1979) – directed by Colin Nears
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) – directed by Jack Gold – TV movie
- The Anatomist (1980) – directed by Julian Amyes – TV movie
- Excalibur (1981) – directed by John Boorman
- The Plague Dogs (1982) – directed by Martin Rosen
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)** – directed by Hayao Miyazaki – English Dub
- Pop John Paul II (1984) – directed by Herbert Wise – TV movie
- Uindii (1984) – directed by Masato Harada
- Dune (1984)** – directed by David Lynch
- The Holy Experiment (1985) – directed by David Tucker – TV movie
- Wild Geese II (1985) – directed by Peter Hunt
- Lifeforce (1985) – directed by Tobe Hooper
- Code Name: Emerald (1985) – directed by Jonathan Sanger
- The Doctor and The Devils (1985) – directed by Freddie Francis
- Lady Jane (1986) – directed by Trevor Nunn
- L.A. Story (1991) – directed by Mick Jackson
- Death Train (1993) – directed by David Jackson – TV movie
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)* – directed by Mel Brooks
- Gunmen (1994) – directed by Deran Sarafian
- In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994) – directed by Vincent Paterson – TV movie
- Star Trek Generations (1994)* – directed by David Carson
- The Pagemaster (1994)* – directed by Joe Johnston (live action) & Maurice Hunt (animation)
- Jeffrey (1995) – directed by Christopher Ashley
- Let It Be Me (1995) – directed by Eleanor Bergstein
- The Canterville Ghost (1996) – directed by Sydney Macartney – TV movie
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996) – directed by Jonathan Frakes
- Conspiracy Theory (1997) – directed by Richard Donner
- Masterminds (1997) – directed by Roger Christian
- Moby Dick (1998) – directed by Franc Roddam – miniseries
- Dad Savage (1998) – directed by Betsan Morris Evans
- Safe House (1998) – directed by Eric Steven Stahl – TV movie
- Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)* – directed by Jonathan Frakes
- The Prince of Egypt (1998)* – directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, & Simon Wells
- Animal Farm (1999) – directed by John Stephenson – TV movie
- A Christmas Carol (1999) – directed by David Jones – TV movie
- X-Men (2000)* – directed by Bryan Singer
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) – directed by John A. Davis
- King of Texas (2002) – directed by Uli Edel – TV movie
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)* – directed by Stuart Baird
- X2: X-Men United (2003)* – directed by Bryan Singer
- The Lion in Winter (2003) – directed by Andrei Konchalovsky – TV movie
- Boo, Zino & The Snurks (2004) – directed by Lenard Fritz Krawinkel & Holger Tappe – English Dub
- Steamboy (2004) – directed by Katsuhiro Otomo – English Dub
- Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real (2004) – directed by Justin Hardy – docufiction – narrator (US Dub)
- The Game of Their Lives (2005) – directed by David Anspaugh
- Mysterious Island (2005) – directed by Russell Mulcahy – TV movie
- Chicken Little (2005) – directed by Mark Dindal
- The Snow Queen (2005) – directed by Julian Gibbs – TV movie
- Bambi II (2006) – directed by Brian Pimental – straight to video
- Eleventh Hour (2006) – directed by Roger Gsrtland & Terry McDonough – miniseries
- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) – directed by Brett Ratner
- TMNT (2007)* – directed by Kevin Munroe
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)* – directed by Gavin Hood – cameo
- Hamlet (2009) – directed by Gregory Doran – TV movie
- Macbeth (2010) – directed by Rupert Goold – TV movie
- Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)* – directed by Kelly Asbury
- Epithet (2012) – directed by Angus Jackson – short
- Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) – directed by Steve Martino & Michael Thurmeier
- Ted (2012)* – directed by Seth MacFarlane
- The Olympic Ticket Master (2012) – directed by Nick Corirossi & Charles Ingram – short
- Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2013) – directed by Daniel St. Pierre & Will Finn
- Hunting Elephants (2013) – directed by Reshef Levi
- The Wolverine (2013) – directed by James Mangold – cameo
- Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (2014) – directed by Shahin Sean Solimon
- Match (2014) – directed by Stephen Belber
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)* – directed by Bryan Singer
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)* – directed by Seth MacFarlane – voice cameo
- Green Room (2015) – directed by Jeremy Saulnier
- Ted 2 (2015)* – directed by Seth MacFarlane
- Christmas Eve (2015) – directed by Mitch Davis
- Spark (2016) – directed by Aaron Woodley
- What Has the ECHR Ever Done for Us? (2016) – directed by Dan Susman – short
- No Man’s Land (2016) – directed by Sean Mathias & Robin Lough – TV movie
- Logan (2017)* directed by James Mangold
- Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017) – directed by Patrik Syversen
- The Emoji Movie (2017) – directed by Tony Leondis
- The Wilde Wedding (2017) – directed by Damian Harris
- Postcards from the 48% (2018) – directed by David Wilkinson – himself – documentary
- The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) – directed by Joe Cornish
- Charlie’s Angels (2019) – directed by Elizabeth Banks
- Coda (2019) – directed by Claude Lalonde
- Dragon Rider (2020) – directed by Tomer Eshed
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)* – directed by Sam Raimi – cameo
- Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie (2026) – directed by Kyle Balda
- Avengers: Doomsday (2026) – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo
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