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Sir Patrick Stewart will forever be remembered by millions as Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard and X-Men's Professor Charles Xavier, but before Hollywood came calling, his greatest passion was Shakespeare.
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The acclaimed actor, who died aged 86, built a formidable reputation on the British stage, spending 16 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and bringing some of the playwright's most celebrated characters to life.
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Although he was born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, in 1940, London became an important part of Stewart's theatrical story, providing a stage for some of the performances that cemented his reputation as one of Britain's finest classical actors.
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His relationship with Shakespeare began long before international fame.
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Having discovered a love of acting as a teenager, Stewart trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before joining the RSC in 1966.
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Over the following 16 years, he became a central figure in the company, performing in productions of King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.
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It was the latter that brought him his first Olivier Award, winning best supporting actor in 1979 for his performance in the Shakespeare tragedy.
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Stewart's ability to move between classical theatre and contemporary drama would become one of the defining features of his career.
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In 2005, he brought his one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol to London's Noel Coward Theatre, taking on multiple characters in a production that showcased his remarkable versatility as a performer.
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A year later, he returned to Shakespeare in the West End, playing Prospero in The Tempest in 2006.
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The role allowed him to revisit one of the playwright's most complex characters, a magician and former duke whose journey explores power, revenge and forgiveness.
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But one of his most celebrated theatrical achievements came with Macbeth.
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Stewart took on the title role in Rupert Goold's acclaimed production, which began at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2007 before transferring to London's West End and subsequently travelling to Broadway.
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His interpretation of the Scottish king earned him widespread critical acclaim and a Tony Award nomination in 2008, his only nomination for the prestigious American theatre prize.
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It was a role he had waited decades to play.
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Stewart had first memorised Macbeth's soliloquies when he was just 14, long before he could have imagined the international career that awaited him.
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The pair reunited on stage for Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, performing in London's West End before taking the productions to Broadway.
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Their partnership brought two generations of theatre audiences together, with Stewart and McKellen demonstrating the extraordinary chemistry that comes from decades of experience on stage.
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Despite becoming one of the most recognisable faces in science fiction and superhero cinema, Stewart never abandoned the theatre that had shaped him.
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His performances in London were a reminder that, long before he commanded the USS Enterprise or mentored the X-Men, he was an actor who had devoted his life to the words of Shakespeare and the craft of live performance.
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He was knighted in 2010 for services to drama, an honour that recognised a career spanning more than six decades across stage and screen.
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