About Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart is an internationally acclaimed actor at home in the theatrical as well as contemporary film and television worlds.

He is known for such popular roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Paramount's Star Trek series; Professor Xavier in 20th-Century Fox's X-Men; and Lyman Felt in the New York stage production of Arthur Miller's play The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. Patrick is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where for more than twenty years he played a full range of Shakespearean roles, including King John, King Henry IV, King Henry V, Touchstone, Cassius, Titus Andronicus, Enobarbus, Oberon, Shylock, Prospero, and Leontes.

On television, Patrick Stewart has played Sejanus in I, Claudius; Karla in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Lenin in Fall of Eagles; Salieri in The Mozart Inquest; and Claudius in Hamlet. His film credits are many: Dune, Lifeforce, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Doctor and the Devils, Codeword Emerald, Lady Jane, and Hedda.

In 1991 Patrick began performing A Christmas Carol, his award-winning adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale, in which he played more than 40 characters. He received a Screen Actor's Guild award for his portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge in TNT's special presentation of A Christmas Carol.

Patrick has won many awards for his acting, including the Olivier Award in 1979 for his performance in Antony and Cleopatra; the London Fringe Best Actor award in 1987 for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; the Will Award for his significant contributions to American classical theater from Washington D.C.'s Shakespeare Theater in 1996; and also that year, a Grammy for his narrative work on Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf.

Patrick narrated his first planetarium soundtrack, The Mars Show, for Loch Ness Productions in 1988, and The Voyager Encounters in 1989. We are proud to welcome back Patrick Stewart as our distinguished narrator for this show.