Birth Day: 1971-03-31
Place of birth: Perth, Scotland, UK
Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor who has starred in numerous film and musical roles. His first professional role was in 1993, as a leading role in the British Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. He then achieved international fame with his portrayals of heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama films Trainspotting (1996) and T2 Trainspotting (2017), Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005) and the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022), poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge! (2001), SPC John Grimes in Black Hawk Down (2001), young Edward Bloom in Big Fish (2003), Rodney Copperbottom in Robots (2005), Camerlengo Father Patrick McKenna in Angels and Demons (2009), "the ghost" in Roman Polanski's political thriller The Ghost Writer (2010), Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), Lumière in the live-action adaptation of the musical romantic fantasy Beauty and the Beast (2017), the adult version of the titular character in the fantasy comedy-drama Christopher Robin (2018), the adult version of Dan Torrance in the horror film Doctor Sleep (2019), and Black Mask in the DC Extended Universe superhero film Birds of Prey (2020). In 2021, he portrayed fashion designer Halston in a Netflix miniseries Halston. In 2018, McGregor won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his dual role as brothers Ray & Emmit Stussy in the third season of FX anthology series Fargo, and received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge! and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. McGregor has also starred in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls (2005–2007) and Othello (2007–2008). He was ranked number 36 on Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list in 1997. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, McGregor was named the fourth most influential person in British culture.
Credits
-
As David
-
As Father
-
As Self (archive footage)
-
As Cricket (voice)
-
As Self
-
As Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
-
As Narrator (voice)
-
As Raymond
-
As Father Kelly
-
As Roman Sionis
-
As Danny Torrance
-
As Himself - Narrator
-
As Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
-
As Narrator
-
As Self
-
As Self
-
As Christopher Robin
-
As Cole
-
As Brown
-
As Self
-
As Renton
-
As Lumière
-
As Voiceover (voice)
-
As Self
-
As Perry Makepeace
-
As Curt Wild (archive footage) (uncredited)
-
As Dave Braden
-
As Swede Levov
-
As Jesus
-
As John Bishop
-
As Inspector Alistair Martland
-
As Narrator (voice)
-
As Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
-
As Cowboy at Fair
-
As Brendan Lynch
-
As Elmont
-
As Bill Fordham
-
As Self
-
As Himself
-
As Henry Bennett
-
As Dr. Alfred Jones
-
As (archive footage)
-
As Narrator
-
As Michael
-
As Oliver Fields
-
As Narrator (voice)
-
As Kenneth
-
As Narrator (voice)
-
As The Ghost
-
As Self
-
As Phillip Morris
-
As Chris (voice)
-
As Rory Green
-
As Gene Vidal
-
As Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
-
As Bob Wilton
-
As Jonathan McQuarry
-
As Jasper Black
-
As Ian Blaine
-
As Himself
-
As Self
-
As Ian Rider
-
As Himself - Narrator (voice)
-
As Norman Warne
-
As Billy
-
As Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
-
As Narrator
-
As Sam Foster
-
As Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
-
As Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
-
As Obi-Wan Kenobi
-
As Self
-
As Valiant (voice)
-
As Stroller ("Desserts")
-
As Narrator (voice)
-
As Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
-
As Ed Bloom (young)
-
As Narrator
-
As Catcher Block
-
As Joe Taylor
-
As Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
-
As Obi-Wan Kenobi
-
As Phil
-
As Self
-
As Self
-
As Christian
-
As SPC John Grimes
-
As Self
-
As Self
-
As Self
-
As James Joyce
-
As The Stranger
-
As Stroller
-
As Nick Leeson
-
As Stephen Wilson
-
As Obi-Wan Kenobi
-
As Billy
-
As Curt Wild
-
As Ewan McGregor
-
As Meneer Chrome
-
As Robert Lewis
-
As Martin Bells
-
As Frank Churchill
-
As Andy Barrow
-
As Renton
-
As Dean Raymond
-
As Jerome
-
As Alvarez
-
As Tom Clayton
-
As Alex Law
-
As Jimmie
-
As George Mallory
-
As Charlie Granger
-
As The Wish Collector
-
As Mark 'Rent Boy' Renton (archive footage)