Patrick Stewart

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Patrick Stewart at San Diego Comic-Con International 2019

Sir Patrick Stewart OBE (born July 13, 1940 in Mirfield , West Yorkshire , England ) is a British actor , producer , director and professor . He has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) since 1966, was part of the core actor team until 1982, and is now an Honorary Associate Artist . He became internationally known for his leading role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the science fiction series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century and the role of Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series .

Life

Patrick Stewart was born on July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, the third son of the weaver Gladys Stewart and the soldier Alfred Stewart. As a child he suffered from his father's violence, which is why he is now campaigning against domestic violence . Today he knows that this violence was triggered by his father's war neurosis , which he suffered in World War II , which is why he is also involved in an organization called "Combat Stress". He started acting at the age of twelve. He left school at the age of 16 and worked from then on as a journalist . A scholarship gave him the opportunity to attend the Old Vic Theater School near Bristol , and at the age of 19 he began his career in professional theater, where he became increasingly successful.

In 1966 Stewart married the choreographer Sheila Falconer, with whom he has a son (* 1968) and a daughter (* 1973). In 1990 he separated from his wife and in August 2000 he married Wendy Neuss , the producer of numerous episodes of the television series Starship Enterprise - The Next Century , in which Stewart played a leading role. Best man at this wedding was his serial colleague Brent Spiner . The marriage was divorced in 2003. Until the end of 2007 he was in a relationship with the British actress Lisa Dillon , whom he had met during the divorce from Wendy Neuss. On September 8, 2013 he married the 38 years younger singer Sunny Ozell . Sir Ian McKellen trusted the couple.

Stewart was Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, UK , from 2003 to 2015 . After he was Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theater at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford in 2007 , he took over a professorship in the performing arts at the University of Huddersfield in 2008 .

Patrick Stewart lives in New York . In his spare time he enjoys reading and is a fan of the English football club Huddersfield Town . Politically, Stewart is on the side of the Labor Party , which he has supported for years.

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Royal Shakespeare Company and Star Trek

Patrick Stewart (2004)
Patrick Stewart (2009)

As an actor, Stewart has appeared in many plays and films, from 1966 to 1982 he played numerous Shakespeare roles as a member of the core team of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in 2007 he was awarded the London Critics' Circle Theater Award for best actor in a Shakespeare play excellent. As a film and television actor, however, he only played smaller roles for a long time, the shooting times of which could be reconciled with work at the theater. These included roles in The Little Lord and Excalibur . It was not until the early 1980s that Stewart became known to a wide audience outside of the theater through supporting roles.

In 1986, Star Trek producer Robert Justman discovered Patrick Stewart at a UCLA drama lecture . In the same year he was engaged for the lead role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek television series Raumschiff Enterprise - The Next Century , produced from 1987 to 1994 . Stewart seemed to him to be the ideal cast for the role of the new captain of the spaceship Enterprise, as he had already often portrayed leaders. After discussions about teaching Stewart an American accent, it was decided that he should also use his English accent on the show. It was hoped that this would underscore Jean-Luc Picard's European origins. Stewart was allowed to bring his enthusiasm for Shakespeare to the role of spaceship captain Picard . This is why Jean-Luc Picard recites passages from Shakespeare's works in the sci-fi television series Raumschiff Enterprise: The Next Century and uses them for argumentation. In this role, he effortlessly bridged the gap between classical theater plays and a futuristic world. His training at the theater gave him a very profound portrayal of the captain in the series. In the Star Trek fan base, he is considered one of the most important figures in the Star Trek universe .

Stewart also played the role of Captain Picard between 1994 and 2002 in the Star Trek films No. 7-10. In July 2006, Stewart told the British Daily Telegraph that he did not believe he would be starring again in a Star Trek film. However, he did not want to rule this out in principle. At the beginning of August 2018, Patrick Stewart appeared as a surprise guest at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas and announced "Jean-Luc Picard is back". In 2020 he resumed his role as Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek: Picard series after 18 years .

Movie and TV

Stewart had his first major television appearance in the 1976 BBC series Ich, Claudius - Kaiser und Gott , where he played Seianus . In the 1980s Stewart was seen in several small supporting roles in the cinema, for example in The Desert Planet and Lifeforce - The Deadly Threat . During his Star Trek time he took on individual, mostly smaller roles in films such as L.A. Story or Death Train . After the end of the Star Trek television series, in addition to his appearances in the Star Trek films, leading and larger supporting roles in cinema and television films such as The Ghost of Canterville and Fletcher's Visions followed . In the 1998 two-part television film Moby Dick , Stewart played the vengeful Captain Ahab, with whom his character Picard in Star Trek: First Contact (1996) was once compared.

Since 2000, the X-Men films contributed to Stewart's international fame, in which he played the leading role of Professor Charles Francis Xavier . In 2005, Stewart played a captain again in the film adaptation of the Jules Verne novel The Mysterious Island . Since 2005 he has been speaking the visually similar character of Avery Bullock in the American Dad series . Since that time he has also taken on other speaking roles, for example in cartoon series or computer games .

Return to the theater

After the last film in the X-Men trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Stewart focused mostly on his theater career and appeared in various stage roles, particularly in London's West End and at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford- upon Avon (e.g. in the summer of 2006 as the magician Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest ). In early 2007 he appeared again as Prospero at London's Westend / Novello Theater as part of the Complete Works Tour of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and also as Antonius in Antonius and Cleopatra .

Also followed in the summer of 2007 during the Chichester Festival Theater Event (West Sussex) the roles of the eloquent butler Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ( What you want ) and as the title character in Macbeth . In 2008 he was on stage again for the RSC, this time as the fratricidal Claudius (as well as the ghost of the murdered) in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the RST and at the Courtyard Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Greg Doran (director of the RSC since 2012) . In 2009, the production moved to London's West End for the second half of the season, and on Boxing Day of the same year, an elaborate film adaptation of the production (with the same cast and again under Doran's direction) premiered on BBC Two .

Until August 2009 Stewart played at London's Theater Royal Haymarket with Ian McKellen in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot , directed by Sean Mathias . Stewart and McKellen worked for Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor for the RSC back in 1977 , but their best-known collaboration is the X-Men series.

From May to September 2011 Stewart appeared again in a Shakespeare work for the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon: In The Merchant of Venice , he played the role of Shylock, and the direction was again taken by Rupert Goold , who was already in with Stewart has worked together on several productions.

Further cinema and television roles

In 2014, Stewart appeared again as Charles Xavier in X-Men: The Future Is Past . In 2015 and 2016 he played the lead role of Walter Blunt in the sitcom Blunt Talk , in which he played a drug-addicted television presenter and a lead role in the thriller Green Room . In 2017 he last played the role of Charles Xavier in Logan - The Wolverine . In 2020 he returned to the role of Picard in the Star Trek: Picard series .

Awards

Patrick Stewart's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

For his performance in several films and in the television series Starship Enterprise: The Next Century , Stewart received awards such as a nomination for best actor in a drama television series for the 1995 Screen Actors Guild Awards . In 1996 he received the Will Award in recognition of his career as a theater actor. Stewart was repeatedly voted the “ sexiest man on television ”, including in the 1992 TV Guide reader survey , followed by his vote as the greatest man on television in 1993. Since 1996, a star with his name has been on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

Most of the nominations and awards, however, Stewart received after the end of his Star Trek series leading role: In 1996 his setting of Peter and the Wolf received a Grammy for the best spoken children's album. 1998-2006 he was nominated three times for an Emmy , in 1999 and 2005 as a TV actor for a Golden Globe and in 2008 for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Macbeth . In 2008 he received the Gielgud Award for his theater performances .

Stewart has held the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) since 2001 . In the New Year Honors List , Queen Elizabeth II announced Stewart's nomination to Knight Bachelor on December 30, 2009 , since he can call himself Sir Patrick Stewart . The ceremonial accolade for his services to the art of acting followed on June 2, 2010 at Buckingham Palace. On this occasion, Stewart referred to his role models “ Sir Laurence Olivier , Sir John Gielgud , Sir Alec Guinness ” and emphasized that it was “ the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me ” that he stood in line with them through the accolade .

Filmography (selection)

Movies

Series

Computer games

German dubbing voices

In Germany, Stewart was spoken alternately by Rolf Schult and Ernst Meincke . In 1980 he was dubbed in the film The Little Lord by Friedrich G. Beckhaus .

In the film Green Room he was spoken by Reinhard Glemnitz .

He is currently voiced in the films by Kaspar Eichel . Since the beginning of 2020 Stewart has been dubbed again by Ernst Meincke in the Star Trek: Picard series .

literature

  • James Hatfield, George Burt: Patrick Stewart. The new captain. His successes, his abysses, his unauthorized biography. Translated from the English by Ralph Sander. Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12542-8 .

Web links

Commons : Patrick Stewart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Patrick plays the Ghost and Claudius in Hamlet. (No longer available online.) In: Royal Shakespeare Company. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010 ; accessed on June 2, 2010 (English).
  2. ↑ Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence . In: The Guardian , November 27, 2009.
  3. ↑ www.huffingtonpost.com: Exclusive: Patrick Stewart Calls on Men to End Violence Against Women. Retrieved March 25, 2013
  4. ↑ Sir Patrick Stewart speaks out against domestic violence Q&A at Comicpalooza, May 31, 2013
  5. ↑ Patrick Stewart named Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor at Oxford ( Memento of May 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), University of Oxford, January 17, 2007.
  6. ↑ X-Men star becomes real professor. BBC News, accessed September 4, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Prince Andrew gives Vulcan salute to Patrick Stewart at university ceremony . In: theguardian.com , July 13, 2015. Chancellor Patrick Stewart accepts new 'role' as Huddersfield Professor ( memento July 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), University of Huddersfield, July 8, 2008.
  8. ↑ Tobias Mayer: “Star Trek”: The “Picard” series finally has a title and the first scenes were shown. In: film starts . May 16, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Stewart and Goold Reunite for RSC's 50th Birthday. (No longer available online.) In: WhatsOnStage.com. January 31, 2011, archived from the original on February 4, 2011 ; accessed on January 31, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whatsonstage.com
  10. ↑ Captain Picard auf Koks , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on December 15, 2015
  11. ↑ Patrick Stewart: The spirit of Enterprise ( Memento June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Independent , June 30, 2003, accessed June 2, 2010.
  12. ↑ a b c Patrick Stewart Biography . In: TVGuide.com , accessed June 2, 2010.
  13. ↑ Patrick Stewart receives the 2008 Gielgud Award ( Memento April 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), University of Huddersfield , March 8, 2008.
  14. ↑ Star Trek captain collects OBE. In: BBC News. July 12, 2001, accessed June 2, 2010 .
  15. ↑ Accolade for "Captain Picard". Actor Patrick Stewart can now call himself Sir  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Heute.de , December 31, 2009, accessed June 2, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heute.de  
  16. ↑ Tim Masters: Star Trek star 'getting used to knighthood' . In: news.BBC.co.uk , February 15, 2010, accessed June 3, 2010 (“ for his services to drama ”).
  17. ↑ Star Trek star Patrick Stewart knighted at Palace . In: news.BBC.co.uk , June 2, 2010, accessed June 3, 2010.
  18. ↑ Sir Patrick Stewart? Queen of England makes it so. In: The Christian Science Monitor , June 2, 2010, accessed June 3, 2010.
  19. ↑ Patrick Stewart in the German dubbing index
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor, producer, director and professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mirfield , West Yorkshire , England , United Kingdom