Patrick Stewart brought gravitas and complexity to the screen, from Star Trek to X-Men
The Shakespearean actor landed the role of a lifetime as "Star Trek" Captain Picard.
Key points
- With style, technique and the most minutely self-aware, almost vaudevillian sense of mimicry, Shakespearean thesps can turn their hand to American movies and high-end American television and show the American method actors how it’s done – sometimes, even, at the beginning of their screen careers, at a competitively low wage.
The English actor began his career on stage before finding fame as the captain of the USS Enterprise.
Stewart was one of the thoroughbreds of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1970s stage generation who had….
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