Patrick Stewart, Picard and Professor X actor, dies at 86
The British actor, best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X, died at his home in Los Angeles after a short illness.
British actor Patrick Stewart has died aged 86. He died at his home in Los Angeles after what a statement called "a short and moving battle" with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia.
The statement said he was surrounded by family and friends, "amid live music, prayer, tears and laughter".
Stewart began as a stage actor, specialising in Shakespeare. He became widely known from 1987 as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ran until 1994. He later appeared in four Star Trek films and returned as Picard in 2020 in the series Star Trek: Picard.
From 2000 he played Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, appearing in seven of them alongside his friend Ian McKellen as Magneto.
Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 2010, which entitled him to use the title Sir Patrick Stewart.
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