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Patrick Stewart, the classically-trained actor who gained worldwide fame in the 1980s as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, has died. A message posted on Stewart's official X account said his passing came "following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia."

Stewart joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, and took his first television role a year later on the long-running British series Coronation Street. He debuted on Broadway in 1971, and subsequently appeared in several feature films.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund https://t.co/luC5CdcWDy Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources https://t.co/zvNptfyuNd Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia https://t.co/XNncEVq56XOctober 29, 2026 [https://twitter.com/cantworkitout/status/2115891266131300517]

But it was his tenure as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation that propelled him to international fame. Where his predecessor, Captain James T. Kirk, was a notorious ladies' man of action and fisticuffs, Picard brought a decidedly more intellectual and thoughtful bent to the big chair that ultimately proved one of the show's most enduring characteristics.

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