Legendary Actor Patrick Stewart Dies Following Brief Illness

Sir Patrick Stewart, the classically trained British stage actor who became a global icon as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. His longtime spokesperson, Kelly Bush Novak, announced the death in a statement shared on Stewart’s X and Instagram accounts, as well as distributed to news outlets. Stewart died after “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s Disease an

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