Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE is an English film, television and stage actor as well as a university Chancellor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century. He is most widely known for his television and film roles, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, and as the voice of Avery Bullock in American Dad. (Wikipedia)