Patrick Stewart’s Career in Photos: ‘Star Trek,’ ‘X-Men,’ ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and More — SkimNews
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- Patrick Stewart died Wednesday at 86 after 60 years on screen, with four Emmy nominations, three Golden Globe nominations, a Tony nod and one Grammy win across his career.
- Avengers: Doomsday arrives Dec. 18, 2026 with Stewart returning as Charles Xavier in what may be his final on-screen appearance, the first MCU crossover uniting the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Sept. 28, 1987, and he reprised the role in 'Generations' (1994), 'First Contact' (1996), 'Insurrection' (1998) and 'Nemesis' (2002).
- X-Men (2000) cast Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier, leader of the mutant team and mentor to its young heroes, whose rivalry with Ian McKellen's Magneto defined the role through sequels running to 'Days of Future Past' (2014).
- Logan (2017) reunited Stewart with Hugh Jackman in the first R-rated 'X-Men' spinoff, where Xavier's degenerative illness had him accidentally kill mutants before dying alongside Wolverine.
- The Lion in Winter (2003) earned Stewart a Golden Globe nomination for playing King Henry II opposite Glenn Close as Eleanor of Aquitaine; his other prestige turns included Captain Ahab in 'Moby Dick' (1998) and 'King of Texas' (2002), which relocated 'King Lear' to the Republic of Texas.
- Green Room (2015) saw Stewart play the owner and leader of a Nazi group that attacks a punk band after it witnesses a murder in the Pacific Northwest; he also starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' (1999) and as cable journalist Walter Blunt in Starz's 'Blunt Talk' (2015), drawing another Golden Globe nomination.
Why it matters: Marvel's 'Avengers: Doomsday' opens Dec. 18, 2026 as the first MCU crossover uniting the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four, with Stewart's last listed screen role following his death at 86. Behind that release sits a 60-year record the franchise headlines compress: four Star Trek films, Shakespeare adaptations, an Emmy-nominated Ahab and a Nazi bar owner in 'Green Room'.
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