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Birth
Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield,the son of Gladys, a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a regimental sergeant major in the British Army. -
Mirfield Secondary Modern School
He entered Mirfield Secondary Modern School, at age 11, to study drama there. -
First professional stage appearance
Stewart's first professional stage appearance was at the Theatre Royal, Bristol playing Cutpurse in Cyrano de Bergerac. -
Royal Shakespeare Company
Following a period with Manchester's Library Theatre, Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, remaining with them until 1982. -
First wife
Stewart married his first wife, Sheila Falconer, in 1966; they divorced in 1990 -
Dr Edward Roebuck
He took the lead, as psychiatric consultant Dr Edward Roebuck, in BBC's Maybury. -
Role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Stewart was picked for the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.The Los Angeles Times called him an "unknown British Shakespearean actor". -
X-Men film series
In the late 1990s he accepted a key role in the big-budget X-Men film series, as Professor Charles Xavier, founder and mentor of the superhero team, a role similar in many ways to Picard. -
A Christmas Carol
Stewart performed it on Broadway, receiving a nomination for that year's Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show. -
Best Dramatic Television Actor
In 1993, TV Guide named him the Best Dramatic Television Actor of the 1980s. -
Hollywood Walk of Fame
On 16 December 1996, Patrick Stewart received a Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. -
Wendy Neuss
In 1997, Stewart became engaged to American producer Wendy Neuss, one of the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. They married on 25 August 2000, and divorced three years later. -
Othello
In 1997, he took the role of Othello with the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) -
Video against domestic violence
In 2006, Stewart made a short video against domestic violence for Amnesty International, in which he recollected his father's physical attacks on his mother and the effect it had on him as a child. -
Macbeth
Stewart began playing Macbeth in the West End in 2007, some said that he was too old for the role; he and the show again received excellent reviews, with one critic calling Stewart "one of our finest Shakespearean actors" -
King Claudius
In 2008, Stewart played King Claudius in Hamlet alongside David Tennant. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for the part. -
Sunny Ozell
In 2008, Stewart began dating American singer and songwriter Sunny Ozell, whom he met while performing in Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. -
Documentaries
Stewart appeared in the feature-length documentary The Captains alongside William Shatner (who played Star Trek Captain James Kirk) -
Home in Brooklyn's Park Slope
He purchased a home in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighbourhood in August 2012,and subsequently began living there with Ozell. -
Professor Xavier(Marvel
In 2022, Stewart portrayed the Professor Xavier of Earth-838 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. -