“We will forever cherish the serenity and thoughtfulness etched on his face – an enduring memory of his indomitable grace,” the family said in a statement published on the actor’s official Instagram page.

According to the actor’s publicist, Kelly Bush Novak, who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, Sir Patrick Stewart died at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday following “a brief and moving journey with Alzheimer’s disease”.

Patrick Stewart was born in July 1940 in Yorkshire, England. He made his stage debut in 1959 in an adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.

A few years later, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he remained for almost two decades, earning recognition for his performances in plays such as Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

In 1987, when he first took on the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, film and television began to dominate his career. Patrick Stewart played the character across seven seasons, four films and later television productions, including Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023).

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