About Patrick Stewart

PATRICK STEWART, who starred as Captain Jean Luc Picard in the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," has more experience in the classical theatre than any actor on American television today. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company for more than twenty years, he has played such diverse roles as King John, King Henry IV, King Henry V, Touchstone, Cassius, Titus Andronicus, Enobarbus, Oberon, Shylock, Prospero and Leontes. In addition to Shakespeare, he has starred in many theatrical classics, including "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "Yonadab."

On television, Patrick has been seen as Sejanus in "I, Claudius", Karla in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People", Lenin in "Fall of Eagles", Salieri in "The Mozart Inquest", and Claudius in "Hamlet" opposite Derek Jacobi. In films, Patrick is best known for his work in "Dune", "Lifeforce", "Little Lord Fauntleroy", "The Doctor and the Devils", "Codeword-Emerald", "Lady Jane", and "Hedda" with Glenda Jackson.

In 1979, Patrick won the Olivier Award for his performance in "Antony and Cleopatra", and the same year was nominated for an Olivier for his role in "The Merchant of Venice". In 1987, he won the London Fringe Best Actor Award for his role in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."

Patrick has written and adapted work for television and radio in the United Kingdom. As an associate director of the Alliance for Creative Theatre, Education, and Research (ACTER) at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he has lectured and performed at universities and colleges throughout the United States and Europe.

In 1988, Patrick narrated his first planetarium soundtrack, The Mars Show, for Loch Ness Productions, followed by The Voyager Encounters in 1989, and MarsQuest in 2001.