Sir Patrick Stewart born 13 July is an English actor. With a career spanning over seven decades of stage and screen , he has received various accolades , including two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award , as well as nominations for a Tony Award , three Golden Globe Awards , four Emmy Awards , and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
In , Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first television role was in Coronation Street in In he reprised his role as King Claudius in Hamlet and received his second Olivier Award and his first Tony Award nomination for respectively the West End and Broadway theatre productions.
He also starred as the lead of Blunt Talk — He currently voices Avery Bullock on American Dad! He gained further stardom when he portrayed Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series — , reprising the role in Logan and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness He has acted in films including L.
Stewart said in , "My father was a very potent individual, a very powerful man, who got what he wanted. It was said that when he strode onto the parade ground, birds stopped singing.
It was many, many years before I realised how my father inserted himself into my work. I've grown a moustache for Macbeth. My father didn't have one, but when I looked in the mirror just before I went on stage I saw my father's face staring straight back at me. He supported himself with work as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer for the local newspaper, [ 15 ] but quit after one year when his boss gave him an ultimatum to choose acting or journalism.
