Arise Sir Patrick Stewart
Iconic British actor Patrick Stewart best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' on television and Professor X in the 'X-Men' films has been awarded the highest honour in the land.
Queen Elizabeth II officially made him a knight in a ceremony at Buckingman Palace.
Considered one of Britain's greatest stage actors of his generation, Stewart is a core member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, which he joined when he was 26. He has appeared in more than 60 productions and like many of his legendary forebears at the company, the residency helped launch an enterprising career in TV and movies.
"It was an unlooked-for honor but as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theatre and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guinness," said Stewart.
"The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. And now to find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me."