Patrick Stewart Embraced His Baldness and Became an Icon NYT > Top Stories By: Guy Trebay 30 October 2026 at 21:35 It took him a while to realize that his lack of hair only added to his quietly commanding presence. Β© Mark Sommerfeld for The New York TimesIn his memoir, Patrick Stewart wrote that he came to regard his baldness as a strength: βAs I reconciled myself to my fate β or is it pate? β I realized that I had been given a strategic advantage.β