Patrick Stewart, Known for Oblivion & Star Trek, Passed Away
The renowned British actor, acclaimed for his screen and stage work, died at the age of 86.
Patrick Stewart, the British stage and screen actor known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, has died at the age of 86.
Stewart passed away on Wednesday, October 28, at his home in Los Angeles following "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia," longtime spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak announced, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all," Novak wrote. "We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace."
Before Stewart joined Star Trek, he had built a career on the English stage, and when he was cast, the Los Angeles Times described him as an "unknown British Shakespearean actor." He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996. In the 2001 New Year Honours, Queen Elizabeth II named him an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2010 he was knighted for services to drama.
Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films. He had a long list of video game roles. He voiced Picard in several Star Trek games and Emperor Uriel Septim VII in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. He also narrated My Memory of Us and Felix the Reaper, and voiced Zobek in the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow games, and Death in the first game.
In a clip from the making-of documentary The Morrowind Babies, Stewart can be heard recording his lines as Emperor Uriel Septim VII in Oblivion:
