Sir Patrick Stewart, the British stage and screen icon who anchored global franchises as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, died Wednesday, October 28, 2026. He was 86.
His representative and family confirmed that he died at his home in Los Angeles following a brief illness with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.
Stewart built a career spanning more than six decades. He transitioned from a working-class upbringing in Yorkshire to the Royal Shakespeare Company before capturing worldwide recognition in middle age.
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