Patrick Stewart, Star Trek and Shakespeare legend, has died

Patrick Stewart, the classically-trained actor who gained worldwide fame in the 1980s as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, has died. A message posted on Stewart's official X account said his passing came "following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia." Stewart joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, and took his first television role a year later on the long-running British series Coronation Street. He debuted on Broadway in 1971, and subsequently appeared in several feature films.