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Patrick Stewart, roles and awards

The following is a list of theatre, film, and television credits for English actor Patrick Stewart. He is known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series. He has also been the voice of Avery Bullock on American Dad! since 2005. He won a Grammy Award in 1996 and is also a Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe nominee.

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His theatre work includes portrayals in Macbeth, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Hamlet for which he won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role.

The Royal Shakespeare Company

Stewart has been a prolific actor in performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in more than 60 productions. His first appearance was in 1966 in The Investigation and in the years that followed he became a core member of the company, taking on three or four major roles each season. In 2008, he played Claudius in Hamlet. In spring 2011, he played Shylock in Rupert Goold's avant garde production of The Merchant of Venice.

Other

  • 1995: Played Prospero in The Tempest for the New York Shakespeare Festival, with the production later transferring to Broadway.
  • 1997: The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.), Stewart in a race-bending performance, in a "photo negative" production of a white Othello with an otherwise all-black cast.
  • 2000: On 9 April 2000, Stewart opened in Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan at the Broadway Ambassador Theatre.
  • 2001: Played George in Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Guthrie in Minneapolis. Also portrayed Robert Johnson in J.B. Priestley's play Johnson Over Jordan at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.
  • 2003: Played the lead role of Halvard Solness in Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder at the Albery Theatre, London. Portrayed Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker in Broadway's American Airlines Theatre
  • 2006: Portrayed Prospero in The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and then the Novello Theatre, and Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra at the Swan Theatre, for the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the cycle performing all Shakespeare's works in a year.
  • 2007: Played 40 roles in a one man performance of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens at the Albery Theatre in the West End of London
  • 2007: He appeared at Chichester Festival Theatre during the Summer 07 Festival playing the title role in Rupert Goold's acclaimed revival of Macbeth in the Minerva studio theatre, and as a grizzled Malvolio with a Scottish accent and kilt in Philip Franks' inventive main house staging of Twelfth Night. The Chichester production of Macbeth transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London's Shaftesbury Avenue,
  • 2008: The title role in Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City.
  • 2008: The title role in Macbeth at the Lyceum Theatre, New York.
  • 2008: The roles of Claudius and the Ghost in Hamlet alongside David Tennant as the eponymous Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. This was later made into a television play and broadcast on BBC1 on 26 December 2009. The same production was broadcast in the U.S. as part of PBS' Great Performances series on 28 April 2010.
  • 2009: Performed in Waiting for Godot in one of the two lead roles, Stewart as Vladimir (Didi) alongside Ian McKellen as Estragon (Gogo).
  • 2010: Performed the part of William Shakespeare in Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death by Edward Bond at the Chichester Festival Theatre, transferring to the Young Vic Theatre in February 2012. This was a role he had first performed in 1976 at the Other Place, Stratford.
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