Who is Patrick Stewart?

Patrick Stewart is best known to most audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Stewart was active with the Old Vic Company, the Manchester Library Theater, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and he followed his stage appearances with roles in television series and movies. Born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England on July 13, 1940, Stewart was performing in various drama groups by the age of twelve. After leaving school at fifteen, he went to work as a junior reporter for a local newspaper. He quit the job after being told by the paper’s editor that he was spending too much time at the theatre and not enough on the newspaper and worked for a year as a furniture salesman to pay for drama school. He was accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1957, and two years later made his professional stage debut in a production of Treasure Island.  He was memorable as Karla, the Soviet spymaster in the mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and Smiley’s People, both based on novels by John LeCarré. Stewart really became an international star as the thoughtful, quietly commanding Picard, commander of the starship Enterprise. He played the role in both the television series and the feature films that followed, including Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: First Contact.

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