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Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor

Birthday: 1971-03-31 | Place of Birth: Perth, Scotland, UK

Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE (born 31 March 1971) 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi

as    Obi-Wan Kenobi

2021
The Birthday Cake

as    Father Kelly

2021
Halston

as    Halston

2021
2020
Long Way Up

as    Self

2019
Doctor Sleep

as    Danny Torrance

2018
Christopher Robin

as    Christopher Robin

2018
Zoe

as    Cole

2017
Beauty and the Beast

as    Lumière

2017
T2 Trainspotting

as    Mark "Rent Boy" Renton

2016
Gimme Danger

as    Curt Wild (archive footage) (uncredited)

2016
Miles Ahead

as    Dave Braden

2016
Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart

as    Himself - Narrator (voice)

2016
Last Days in the Desert

as    Jesus

2016
Jane Got a Gun

as    John Bishop

2016
Our Kind of Traitor

as    Perry Makepeace

2016
American Pastoral

as    Swede Levov

2015
Mortdecai

as    Inspector Alistair Martland

2014
Son of a Gun

as    Brendan Lynch

2013
August: Osage County

as    Bill Fordham

2013
Jack the Giant Slayer

as    Elmont

2012
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

as    Dr. Alfred Jones

2012
The Impossible

as    Henry Bennett

2012
Bomber Boys

as    Himself

2012
Perfect Sense

as    Michael

2012
2011
Haywire

as    Kenneth

2011
Beginners

as    Oliver Fields