Biography:
Patrick Hewes Stewart is an English film, television and stage actor. He has had
a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century. He
is most widely known for his television and film roles, as Captain Jean-Luc
Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier in the
X-Men films. Stewart was born in Mirfield near Dewsbury in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, England, the son of Gladys, a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred
Stewart, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army who served with the
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and previously worked as a general labourer
and as a postman. Stewart and his first wife, Sheila Falconer, have two
children: Daniel Freedom and Sophie Alexandra. Stewart and Falconer divorced in
1990. In 1997, he became engaged to Wendy Neuss, one of the producers of Star
Trek: The Next Generation, and they married on 25 August 2000, divorcing three
years later. Four months prior to his divorce from Neuss, Stewart played
opposite actress Lisa Dillon in a production of The Master Builder. The two
dated for four years, but are no longer together. He is now seeing Sunny Ozell;
at 31, she is younger than his daughter. "I just don't meet women of my age," he
explains. Stewart has been a prolific actor in performances by the Royal
Shakespeare Company, appearing in over 60 productions.