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Patrick Stewart Embraced His Baldness and Became an Icon

NYT > Top Stories

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.

In his memoir, Patrick Stewart wrote that he came to regard his baldness as a strength: “As I reconciled myself to my fate — or is it pate? — I realized that I had been given a strategic advantage.”