PATRICK STEWART

Patrick Stewart portrays the above Captain, played by a British native and for the first time, a bald captain. Patrick appeared in such BBC productions as "I, Claudius", "Smiley's People", and "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", which aired on public and commercial television outlets in America. American filmgoers will also remember him as Gurney Halek in the David-Lynch film "Dune", Leodegrance in "Excalibur", Duke of Suffolk in "Lady Jane", and Elbert Lovborg in "Hedda", with Glenda Jackson. He was the receipient of the prestigious London Fringe Best Actor Award for his performance in a London production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and an Olivier Award for his performance in Shakespeare's "Antony And Cleopatra".

During "Star Trek: The Next Generation's", third season hiatus, Patrick appeared in the Steve Martin film, "L.A. Story". He also lent his voice to the narration of "Shape Of The World", a series on the mapping of the world through the ages, which was produced by London-based Granada Television for PBS. During the show's fourth season, Patrick made his directorial debut with an episode entitled, "In Theory". Patrick's one-man dramatic interpretation of Charles Dicken's classic novel, "A Christmas Carol", brought down the house and garnered rave critical reviews on Broadway. During the show's fifth season hiatus, Patrick played a villain in British Lion Production's feature film, "Gunman", and appeared with Pierce Brosnan, the late James Bond, in "Death Train". Patrick also starred in the film with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts is "Conspiracy Theory". Patrick also recently appeared in the comic-book adaptation of "X-Men", playing the role of Professor Xavier in 2000 and will reprise his role for the sequel in 2003. Patrick also appeared in the first three "Star Trek: The Next Generation" based feature film and will reprise his role for the forth-film, tenth in the successful film franchise, which is due to begin filming any time soon.

Patrick grew up in the English town of Mirfield and for 25 years has been an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Considered to be one of the British theater's leading talents, his credits include, "Henry IV", "Oberon", "Shylock", (an Olivier Award nomination), "Leontes" and the title role in Peter Shaffer's 1986 play "Yonadab".