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Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' Legend, Dead at 86
Original: Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Legend and Beloved Shakespearean Actor, Dead at 86 # IndieWire # News # Obituary # Film # O
IndieWire is reporting that Patrick Stewart, the English actor best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, has died at the age of 86. Stewart was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor with a decades-long career in British theatre. Tributes and reactions to the news are spreading widely online.
Why now: The death of a beloved, internationally famous actor naturally generates an outpouring of tributes and discussion.
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