What is Patrick Stewart's greatest role?

Starship captains and Shakespearean kings share this list with a cartoon spy boss and a terrifying club owner. Range was always the point.

1. 1
   Jean-Luc Picard

   The principled captain of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, its films and Star Trek: Picard, and the role that made Stewart a global star.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Macbeth

   The murderous Scottish king in Rupert Goold's Stalin-era Macbeth, a stage triumph from Chichester to Broadway filmed for PBS in 2010.
   625pts
3. 3
   Vladimir

   One of the two tramps in Waiting for Godot opposite Ian McKellen, in the West End and on Broadway.
   529pts
4. 4
   Charles Xavier

   Professor X, the telepathic mentor of the mutants across the X-Men films, ending with a heartbreaking turn in Logan.
   423pts
5. 5
   Avery Bullock

   The eccentric CIA deputy director Stewart has voiced on the animated comedy American Dad! since 2005.
   423pts
6. 6
   King Claudius

   The usurping king opposite David Tennant in the RSC's Hamlet, an Olivier Award-winning turn later filmed for the BBC in 2009.
   423pts
7. 7
   Darcy

   The calm, chilling neo-Nazi club owner in Jeremy Saulnier's punk thriller Green Room (2015).
   423pts
8. 8
   Sejanus

   The ruthless Praetorian prefect in the classic BBC drama I, Claudius (1976), one of Stewart's first major TV roles.
   367pts
9. 9
   Walter Blunt

   The self-important British cable-news host of the Starz comedy Blunt Talk (2015-2016).
   302pts
10. 10
    Captain Ahab

    The obsessed whaling captain of the 1998 miniseries Moby Dick, a performance that earned Stewart Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
    228pts
11. 11
    Karla

    The silent Soviet spymaster facing Alec Guinness's George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People.
    228pts
12. 12
    King Henry II

    The aging Plantagenet king in the 2003 TV film The Lion in Winter opposite Glenn Close, a Golden Globe-nominated role.
    228pts
13. 13
    King Richard

    The returning Lionheart who steals the finale of Mel Brooks's spoof Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
    228pts
14. 14
    Gurney Halleck

    The warrior-troubadour of House Atreides in David Lynch's Dune (1984), charging into battle clutching a pug.
    141pts
15. 15
    Ebenezer Scrooge

    The miser of the 1999 TV film A Christmas Carol, grown from Stewart's acclaimed one-man stage show of the Dickens story.
    0pts

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