Sir Patrick Stewart: key obituary facts
Is Sir Patrick Stewart dead? Yes. Sir Patrick Stewart died on October 29, 2026, at age 86.
Cause of death: Sir Patrick Stewart's cause of death was reported as Alzheimer’s disease.
What was Sir Patrick Stewart known for?
He was a British actor (born 1940).
More about Sir Patrick Stewart
Born: 13 July 1940.
Place of birth: Mirfield.
Gender: male.
Occupation: television actor, film actor, voice actor, director, university teacher, stage actor, actor, film director.
Nationality: United Kingdom.
Education: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Crowlees Junior and Infant School.
Employer: University of Oxford, University of Huddersfield.
Notable work: X-Men, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Awards: Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Knight Bachelor, Grammy Awards, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Years active: 1959–present.
Sir Patrick Stewart, the English actor known for Star Trek: The Next Generation, X-Men and Hamlet, died October 29, 2026, aged 86, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Born in Mirfield on July 13, 1940, he built a career spanning more than six decades across stage and screen. Stewart joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 and made his Broadway debut five years later in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
His first television role was in Coronation Street in 1967, and he received the Laurence Olivier Award for best supporting actor for Antony and Cleopatra in 1979. International audiences came to know him as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ran from 1987 to 1994. He returned to the role in feature films and the series Star Trek: Picard, which aired from 2020 to 2023. His screen roles also included Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and King Henry II in The Lion in Winter. Stewart received two Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for a Tony Award, three Golden Globes, four Emmys and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 2010 for services to drama.