A statement from his rep confirmed the news.
“We announce with great sorrow the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart yesterday at his home in Los Angeles, in the loving care of his beloved wife Sunny, following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia,” the statement reads. “He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter, and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all. We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.”
Stewart, the distinguished stage and screen actor and New York Times best-selling author whose career spanned nearly six decades, was a three-time Olivier Award winner and a Tony Award nominee for his stage work, and received multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards nominations for his work across television and film.
For seven seasons on the drama Star Trek: The Next Generation and several film installments, beginning with Star Trek Generations in 1994, Stewart played the role of Jean-Luc Picard. He later reprised the role in the record-breaking global hit Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, for which he won a Critics Choice Super Award for Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series. The series concluded its third and final season in April 2023.
Stewart also was celebrated for his portrayal of Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X, a role he originated in the 2000 film X-Men and reprised throughout the franchise’s many hit sequels including the hit Logan, opposite Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine. Stewart also reprised the role in Avengers: Doomsday, set for release on December 18, 2026, marking his eighth time portraying the character.
In 2023, Stewart became a New York Times best-selling author upon the publication of his memoir, Making It So, which chronicles his life from his earliest days in Yorkshire, England and through his long career. The memoir was published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, and a companion audiobook, read by Stewart himself, won an Audie Awards honor for Autobiography/Memoir and was named one of the year’s best celebrity memoir recordings by Audible.
His many screen credits included Steve Martin’s L.A. Story; Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room; Starz’s Blunt Talk; Robin Hood: Men in Tights; Conspiracy Theory; The Lion in Winter; I, Claudius; Moby Dick; Hamlet; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Ricky Gervais’s Extras; The Kid Who Would Be King; Match; The King of Texas; Jeffrey; Dune; Coda; Excalibur; and voice work on Seth MacFarlane’s animated hits Family Guy and American Dad as well as films such as The Prince of Egypt, Chicken Little, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
In 2026, Stewart voiced the role of Sir Ritchfield in Amazon MGM Studios’ comedy The Sheep Detectives, opposite Jackman as George, a shepherd who reads detective novels to his sheep every night until a mysterious incident forces them to become detectives themselves.
For his stage work, Stewart was honored with three Olivier Awards, the first of which came in 1979 for his performance in Peter Brook’s production of Antony and Cleopatra. Stewart’s association with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) saw him appear in more than 60 productions, including his Olivier-winning performance as Claudius in Hamlet opposite David Tennant. He was also named an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC in recognition of his indelible contributions to the theater.
Stewart’s Broadway and West End appearances included his Tony-nominated and Evening Standard Award-winning performance as the title character in Macbeth, directed by Rupert Goold in a production that played London’s West End, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and Broadway; his work opposite Ian McKellen in repertory productions of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot; as well as The Caretaker; A Life in the Theatre; The Master Builder; The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Twelfth Night; Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death; and The Tempest.
In December 2019, Stewart remounted his Olivier Award-winning solo stage show, A Christmas Carol, which he adapted himself and in which he portrayed more than 40 characters. He performed the piece frequently following its debut in 1991, including on Broadway and in London. The 2019 staging marked his first time performing the piece in 17 years, this time as a benefit production for City Harvest and Ars Nova.
His voice work was also recognized with a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for the English-language recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. In 2026, Stewart lent his voice to all 154 of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, including reflections on the narration process, in the audiobook Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare, released by Simon & Schuster Audio on April 7.
Stewart was a vocal supporter of social justice, women’s rights, domestic abuse advocacy, veterans’ rights, the refugee crisis, animal rights, political reform, and much more.
In the 2001 New Year Honours list, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Stewart an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2010, he received a knighthood for his services to drama.
Born July 13, 1940, in Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Stewart left school at 15 to perform in local theater, and made his professional stage debut in 1959 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 and in 1967 made his debut TV appearance on Coronation Street . He made his Broadway debut in 1970 as Snout in Peter Brook’s 1970 production A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
A steady, prolific career followed through the ’70s and ’80s, with appearances in such films as John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) and Dune (1984) preceding the role that would make him a global name in 1987: With some trepidation for what it would mean for his stage career, Stewart took on the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, ensuring his place in TV history and the pop culture landscape and all but eliminated any need to worry over future career opportunities, on stage or otherwise.
