Patrick Stewart, best-known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, has died at the age of 86.
He died after ""a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia."
Stewart's storied career also includes numerous Shakespearean roles, and turns as Ebeneezer Scrooge and Captain Ahab.
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This caught me completely off guard.
So sorry to read this. An amazing actor.