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Sir Patrick Stewart
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:31 am
by Sionnach Glic
Star Trek favourite Patrick Stewart is to be knighted in the New Year's Honours list.
The screen and stage legend will receive the gong from the Queen for his services to drama.
Stewart's award will cap an incredible career that has spanned 50 years of film and theatre.
Palace sources said the Queen is a huge fan of the 69-year-old, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
One observer said: "It's a fantastic accolade for a fantastic actor.
"He is a man at the very top of his trade who has mastered both popular TV and classic roles."
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Stewart, a die-hard Labourite, is seen as an inspiration to millions as he fought his way up from tough childhood to the top of the acting profession.
He was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, the son of a weaver and an army sergeant major.
His father beat his mother and he admitted this had a huge impact on him when he was growing up.
Stewart left school at 15 to become a reporter.
But he spent so much time at rehearsals with a local drama group that his editor told him to choose between acting and journalism.
He picked the stage and worked his way through the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Directors feared his baldness could cost him parts. But he wore a toupee for auditions and promise "two actors for the price of one".
Excellent. 
Re: Sir Patrick Stewart
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:52 am
by sunnyside
Good deal. As far as I know him he's a good guy off stage as well as on.
Kinda makes me wish we'd come up with something like that on this side of the pond. I mean we have all sorts of awards and stuff, but those just don't have the same flavor.
Re: Sir Patrick Stewart
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:13 pm
by Mikey
Meh, you can buy one. There's a kindergarten teacher in my wife's school named "Dame Johnnie Walker." She bought a peerage.
She also has red hair, so the "Johnnie Walker Red" jokes fly.
Re: Sir Patrick Stewart
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:14 pm
by MetalHead
awesome, if anyone deserves it, its patrick stewart.
Re: Sir Patrick Stewart
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:51 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Nice to hear.
Re: Sir Patrick Stewart
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:34 am
by Foxfyre
Nice SIR Pactirck Stewart very nice.
Re: Sir Patrick Stewart
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 3:02 am
by Lazar
Patrick Stewart knighted
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:38 am
by Varthikes
I just saw this on IMDB and thought I'd share it here.
Patrick Stewart is now
Sir Patrick Stewart.
Re: Patrick Stewart knighted
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:41 am
by Lazar
Re: Patrick Stewart knighted
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:30 am
by Varthikes
Phooey...
Was hoping that I'd be the first to announce it...
Re: Patrick Stewart knighted
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 1:17 pm
by thelordharry
Make it sew...
Re: Sir Patrick Stewart
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:35 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Varthikes wrote:I just saw this on IMDB and thought I'd share it here.
Patrick Stewart is now
Sir Patrick Stewart.
Welcome to the thread that already said that.
Topic moved and merged.
