Patrick Stewart Embraced His Baldness and Became an Icon NYT - Top Stories By: Guy Trebay 30 October 2026 at 18:35 It took him a while to realize that his lack of hair only added to his quietly commanding presence. © Mark Sommerfeld for The New York TimesIn 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.”