Patrick Stewart is the proud father of two children, Daniel Stewart and Sophie Stewart.
Star Trek actor Patrick welcomed his children with his first wife, Sheila Falconer, whom he married in 1966. The couple separated in 1990, and Patrick remarried twice, first to Wendy Noyce from 2000 to 2003 and then to his current wife Sunny Ozell, whom he married in 2013.
Like his father, Daniel is also an actor. The UK-based actor has appeared in theater on both sides of the pond and collaborated with Patrick on three projects: the 1993 thriller Death Train, the 2015 Starz sitcom Blunt Talk, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
“I think it’s great that we’re both in the same profession. It’s allowed us to bring so much into each other’s lives and share and have fun talking about it, which is great,” Patrick told USA Today in 2015.
Here’s everything you need to know about Patrick Stewart’s two children, son Daniel and daughter Sophie.
Daniel Stewart, 58 years old
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Patrick and Falconer welcomed Daniel on October 20, 1967.
“I’ve loved Daniel since he was little, and I loved holding him when he was a baby. It was amazing,” Patrick told PEOPLE of his eldest son’s childhood.
Daniel grew up in the world of theater. Her father is an actor and her mother is a dancer and choreographer. “My parents’ dinner parties are now a specialty of the British theatrical aristocracy,” he said on the Grit podcast in 2021.
In 2012, he spoke to Britain’s Metro newspaper and said his father was “very good at exposing his children to the world of art,” including making sure they listened to classical music and making sure there were books at home that he wanted them to read.
That even extended to rock music, with Patrick playing Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” instead of the first record Daniel had bought for himself the day before, Sham 69’s “The Kids Are United.”
Danielle told Metro that she attended a rural school outside Stratford-upon-Avon, England, where her father worked for the Shakespeare Theater Company, and then attended Latymer School in West London, where she had an “acting bent.” The year his father started Star Trek: The Next Generation, Daniel began attending drama school at California Institute of the Arts.
Just like his famous father, Daniel is also an actor. Although he has since returned to the UK, Daniel told Grit that he has “spent half his life in America” and has “in some ways adopted both countries’ attitudes towards acting”.
“This industry, and the fact that we’re both in it, creates all kinds of weird situations,” Daniel told USA Today. “The lives we lead may be ridiculous in some ways. My upbringing wasn’t typical. My mom and dad came home at 5 o’clock and dinner was on the table at 6 o’clock.”
Daniel’s first role was in the 1986 television miniseries Shaka Zulu. He has since appeared in numerous shows, TV movies and films, including 1993’s The Detonator, 2001’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and 2020’s Silent Witness, as well as acting on and off Broadway, in London’s West End, the Royal Shakespeare Theater, and the National Theatre.
Patrick told The Independent in 2009 that he was “shocked” when Daniel told him he wanted to be an actor, but admitted he also felt guilty about it, explaining: “I could have done a better job as a parent when the kids were little. I was obsessed with my job and everything else took a backseat.”
Daniel has appeared in three projects with his famous father: the 1993 thriller Death Train, the 2015 Starz sitcom Blunt Talk, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the latter, which aired in 1992, Daniel played Batai, the son of Patrick’s character, in the penultimate episode of season five, “The Inner Light.”
The two have also attended red carpet events together, including the 1999 Los Angeles premiere of The Talented Mr. Ripley, the 2004 Tony Awards, and the 2010 A Life in the Theater opening night afterparty in New York City.
The actor also co-hosts the podcast Foxhole Companion with Simon Rance, which explores World War II film history. On his X (formerly Twitter) profile, he describes himself as a “Leeds United fan” and “a perennially intolerant mean person”.
Daniel has been married to actress Mary Stillwagon Stewart since July 1999 and they have two children, a daughter and a son.
sophie alexandra stewart
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Sophie Alexandra Stewart was born in 1972, the daughter of Patrick and Falconer.
“When my daughter was born, it happened to be at a time when my career was at a standstill,” Patrick tells PEOPLE. “I was very much a caretaker for the first two years of her life because her mother was a great dancer and was in musicals. I took over her mother’s and father’s duties and I loved it. It was wonderful.”
Although Sophie has a more private life than her parents and older brother, she has made several red carpet appearances over the years. She attended the 44th Drama Desk Awards in New York in 1999 with her father and Danielle and Patrick’s then-girlfriend Noyce, and was her father’s date to the 2003 Fast & Furious 2 premiere in London and the 2009 Laurence Olivier Awards. She and her husband Wayne also attended the premiere of Star Trek: Nemesis in London in 2002.
Sophie and Daniel were the ones who encouraged and even “teased” Patrick about his first Star Trek audition, and after Patrick won the role, he said, “They were so proud that their father was Captain Jean-Luc Picard.”
“They thought it was hysterical that I was even auditioning,” the famous actor told PEOPLE in 2022. “People wearing colored T-shirts?” I said. That was all I knew about it. ”
Sophie has two children, a son and a daughter.
