Captain Picard Knighted – Make it Sir!

It’s about time…

Patrick Steward aka Captain Jean Luc Picard was knighted yesterday at Buckingham Palace London.  The classically trained actor of both stage a screen thanked his old English Teacher for starting him on his road to acting.

“Although many people in my life have had great influence on me, without this man none of it would have happened,”

“He was the one that put a copy of Shakespeare in my hand [and] said, ‘Now get up on your feet and perform’.”

The 69 year old hero to many is best known for Star Trek: The Next Generation and more recently the X-Men Trilogy has just completed a run a the theatre working alongside fellow X-Men actor Sir Ian McKellen in the stage version of ‘Waiting For Godot’.

Sir Patrick was relaxed after the ceremony and recounted his early beginnings in acting:

“But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theatre and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier [and] Sir John Gielgud,”

It has now been announced that Sir Patrick would chair a jury as well as deliver a talk at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland.

If you want to see him in action at the moment then head over to the Minerva Theatre in Chichester where you will see Sir Patrick playing William Shakespeare in the Edward Bond play ‘Bingo’.

Check out a quick interview by ITN on you tube: