Sir Patrick Stewart, who found acclaim as a Shakespearean actor before making an unlikely career pivot in middle age that would bring him his greatest fame on the TV series “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” died on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86.
During the pandemic, millions watched videos online of Stewart reading Shakespeare’s sonnets. He continued day by day, a copy of the Folger Shakespeare edition of the sonnets in hand, until he’d read all 154.
