In 2013, he married his third wife – singer-songwriter Sunny Ozell – in Nevada.<\/p>\n
Sir Ian McKellen officiated at the ceremony, which had to be restaged at a Los Angeles restaurant when someone discovered that his legal power to do so did not extend to the Silver State.<\/p>\n
A year later, the two knights took their talents to Broadway, alternating performances of Waiting for Godot with Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land.<\/p>\n
Sir Patrick made a video for Amnesty International on the subject of domestic violence, referencing his father’s brutality towards his mother.<\/p>\n
Once named the third greatest Yorkshireman after Michael Palin and Sean Bean, he never lost touch with his roots – keeping a house in God’s Own Country, and remaining a lifelong supporter of Huddersfield Town football club.<\/p>\n
Forthcoming projects had included a final performance as Professor Charles Xavier in Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday, which will be released this Christmas.<\/p>\n
And, if millions remember him only as the somewhat taciturn commander of the USS Enterprise, that prospect was not something that worried him.<\/p>\n
“For huge numbers of people I will always be Jean-Luc Picard, and that’s fine,” he said. “I really believe we created an admirable individual.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2013, he married his third wife – singer-songwriter Sunny Ozell – in Nevada. Sir Ian McKellen officiated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}