00:00Beloved Star Trek, X-Men, and Shakespearean actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died at the age of 86.
00:07A statement on social media announced his passing overnight at his home in Los Angeles
00:12after a period of ill health resulting from Alzheimer's disease and Lewbody dementia.
00:18The statement read,
00:19He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends,
00:23surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter, and the kind of profound emotion
00:29that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all.
00:34We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face,
00:39an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.
00:43The British actor was well known to TV and cinema audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
00:49on Star Trek The Next Generation,
00:51and as the telepathic Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise.
00:56He had also been a regular on stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company,
01:01playing everything from Mark Antony to Oberon and Macbeth.
01:06He flowed from the classical to the dramatic to the comedic with ease.
01:32He also often performed a one-man rendition of A Christmas Carol and did West End and Broadway runs
01:39of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot,
01:44with his long-term friend Sir Ian McKellen.
01:48Tributes for the late great actor have flowed from every corner of the cinema and theatre industry around the world.
01:56I have a question, sir.
01:59Yes, Data, what is it?
02:00What is death?
02:06Some see it as changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging.
02:13They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to then maintain that form in an earth-like garden,
02:22which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity.
02:26On the other hand, there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness.
02:33With all of our experiences and hopes and dreams,
02:38merely a delusion.
02:40Yes.
02:43I'll see you next time.
02:44So, here we're going to see you next time.
02:44I'm going to see you next time.
02:45Bye.
02:45Bye.
02:45You
