Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart, born on 13 July 1940, is an English actor whose career has spanned more than sixty years on stage and screen. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, made his Broadway debut in 1971, and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1979 for Antony and Cleopatra. His first television role was in Coronation Street in 1967. He gained international stardom as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and reprised the role in a series of films and in Star Trek: Picard. He also starred as Captain Ahab in the miniseries Moby Dick and as Ebenezer Scrooge in a television film of A Christmas Carol, and he voices the CIA executive Avery Bullock on American Dad!. His accolades include two Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, and he was knighted in 2010 for services to drama.