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‘Patrick Stewart brought virile star power to the stage, from clowns to kings to wounded lions’
Source: The Guardian · Published
With his striking voice, so rich and resonant, the actor blazed through the RSC – and his time in Hollywood only enriched him. Yet he was a great team player, capable of anything, as his double acts with Ian McKellen showed Patrick Stewart, who has died aged 86, was a classic example of the company actor who becomes a star: a natural Enobarbus who winds up playing Mark Antony. It would be easy to…
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