Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#271
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Patrick Stewart represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 46 years in, and Patrick is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Patrick Stewart appears in 37 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. Logan is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kyle Balda, Anthony Russo, Sam Raimi and others, Patrick Stewart helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Logan (2017) as Charles · The Sheep Detectives (2026) as Sir Ritchfield (voice) · X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Professor X
Career snapshot
Ranked #271 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
37
1980–2026
Career length
46 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Logan
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
Most frequent director
Bryan Singer
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Bryan Singer
Most common genre
Adventure
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.9
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Prince of Egypt, Conspiracy Theory, Star Trek: First Contact — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Lifeforce, Dune, Excalibur.
Most productive era
2010s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 7.02 films | — | 8.01 film | 6.21 film |
| Action | 6.32 films | 7.02 films | 6.75 films | 7.06 films | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.02 films | 6.41 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.51 film | 6.33 films | 6.46 films | 7.81 film |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | 6.31 film | — | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Wilkins.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Logan
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Professor Charles Xavier.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
37 of 37 films
as Charles
Directed by James Mangold
as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Directed by Jonathan Frakes
as Professor X
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Narrator (voice)
Directed by Alastair Fothergill
as Sir Ritchfield (voice)
Directed by Kyle Balda
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Charles
Logan (2017)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Charles gives Patrick Stewart a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Performance score7.9
Star Trek: First Contact asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Professor X
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Performance score7.8
X-Men: Days of Future Past asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Professor X is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Narrator (voice)
Earth (2007)
Performance score7.7
Earth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Narrator (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Charles
Start here. Logan is the clearest statement of what Patrick Stewart does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Patrick at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Keeps the action register of Logan but asks for a colder reading of it.
Earth (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Star Trek: First Contact — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Earth — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Sheep Detectives (2026)
A deliberate change of key after X-Men: Days of Future Past — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bryan Singer
Director
3 films together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
Seth MacFarlane
Director
2 films together
Notably Ted
James Mangold
Director
2 films together
Notably Logan
Jack Gold
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Lord Fauntleroy
John Boorman
Director
1 film together
Notably Excalibur
David Lynch
Director
1 film together
Notably Dune
Tobe Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Lifeforce
Mick Jackson
Director
1 film together
Notably L.A. Story
Jonathan Frakes
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek: First Contact
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably Conspiracy Theory
Brenda Chapman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Prince of Egypt
Thomas C. Grane
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: The Mutant Watch
John A. Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Stuart Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek: Nemesis
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably Chicken Little
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: The Last Stand
Alastair Fothergill
Director
1 film together
Notably Earth
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Peter Shin
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Kelly Asbury
Director
1 film together
Notably Gnomeo & Juliet
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie's Angels
Joe Cornish
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid Who Would Be King
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Doomsday
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sheep Detectives
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bryan Singer
Director
3 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastJames Mangold
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
LoganSeth MacFarlane
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TedKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sheep DetectivesSam Raimi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessBrenda Chapman
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Prince of EgyptJonathan Frakes
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Trek: First ContactAlastair Fothergill
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EarthJack Gold
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little Lord FauntleroyJohn Boorman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExcaliburThomas C. Grane
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: The Mutant WatchPeter Shin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!Richard Donner
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Conspiracy TheoryBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: DoomsdayElizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie's AngelsBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: The Last StandMick Jackson
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
L.A. StoryGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men Origins: WolverineStuart Baird
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Trek: NemesisDavid Lynch
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DuneJoe Cornish
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kid Who Would Be KingJohn A. Davis
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jimmy Neutron: Boy GeniusTobe Hooper
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LifeforceKelly Asbury
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gnomeo & JulietMark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chicken LittleSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Logan
as Charles
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Prince of Egypt
as Seti (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Logan
as Charles
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
as Charles Xavier / Professor X (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Logan
as Charles
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Patrick Stewart has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
46 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
18 catalogue titles in adventure, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Sheep Detectives
as Sir Ritchfield (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Sheep Detectives
as Sir Ritchfield (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Coda
as Henry Cole
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Secrets of the Neanderthals
as Narrator (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Professor X
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Professor Charles Xavier
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Prince of Egypt
as Seti (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Doomsday
as Professor Charles Xavier
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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