Ewan McGregor 1971 54
Ewan McGregor 1971 54
Ewan Gordon McGregor (/ˈjuːən/ YOO-ən; born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama and charity.
While studying drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, McGregor began his career with a leading role in the British series Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He gained international recognition for starring as drug addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996) and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005). His career progressed with starring roles in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), action film Black Hawk Down (2001), fantasy film Big Fish (2003), and thriller Angels and Demons (2009). He gained praise for his performances in the thriller The Ghost Writer (2010) and romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011).
McGregor made his directorial debut with the crime film American Pastoral (2016), in which he also starred. For his dual role as brothers Ray and Emmit Stussy in the third season of the anthology series Fargo (2017), he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. He voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast (2017), and played the title role in Christopher Robin (2018), Dan Torrance in Doctor Sleep (2019), and Black Mask in Birds of Prey (2020). He reprised his role as Kenobi in the 2022 miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of fashion designer Halston in the miniseries Halston (2021).
McGregor has also starred in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls (2005–2007) and Othello (2007–2008). He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004.
From Perth, Scotland, UK
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2026 Flowervale Street
2025 Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Mark 'Rent Boy' Renton (archive footage)
2025 The Land of Sometimes as The Wish Collector
2025 Everest as George Mallory
2025 Long Way Home as Self Executive Producer
2025 The Cow as Charlie Granger
2024 Mother, Couch as David Executive Producer
2024 Bleeding Love as Father Executive Producer
2023 Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open as Self (archive footage)
2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema as Self
2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Cricket (voice)
2022 Raymond & Ray as Raymond
2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
2022 Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story as Narrator (voice)
2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi as Obi-Wan Kenobi Executive Producer
2021 The Birthday Cake as Father Kelly
2020 WAMEGO: Addendum
2020 Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) as Roman Sionis
2020 Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook as Self
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
2019 Doctor Sleep as Danny Torrance
2019 Wild Ways of the Vikings as Narrator (voice)
2019 Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier as Narrator
2018 A Movie Is Made For Pooh as Self
2018 Christopher Robin as Christopher Robin
2018 Zoe as Cole
2018 RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor as Self
2017 And the Winner Isn't as Self
2017 Beauty and the Beast as Lumière
2017 Red Point as Brown
2017 T2 Trainspotting as Renton
2017 Now You See It as Voiceover (voice)
2016 The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car as Self
2016 American Pastoral as Swede Levov Director
2016 Gimme Danger as Curt Wild (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016 Last Days in the Desert as Jesus
2016 Our Kind of Traitor as Perry Makepeace
2016 Miles Ahead as Dave Braden
2015 Jane Got a Gun as John Bishop
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
2015 Humpback Whales as Narrator (voice)
2015 Mortdecai as Inspector Alistair Martland
2014 Son of a Gun as Brendan Lynch
2014 A Million Ways to Die in the West as Cowboy at Fair
2014 Ice Bear
2013 August: Osage County as Bill Fordham
2013 Muse of Fire as Self
2013 Jack the Giant Slayer as Elmont
2012 The Impossible as Henry Bennett
2012 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen as Dr. Alfred Jones
2012 Bomber Boys as Self
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 Charge as Narrator (voice)
2011 Haywire as Kenneth
2011 Teenage Wildlife as Narrator (voice)
2011 Perfect Sense as Michael
2011 Fastest as Narrator (voice)
2011 Beginners as Oliver Fields
2011 Ewan McGregor and Mike Mills in San Francisco as Self
2010 Jackboots on Whitehall as Chris (voice)
2010 The Battle of Britain as Self
2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Rory Green
2010 The Ghost Writer as The Ghost
2010 I Love You Phillip Morris as Phillip Morris
2009 Amelia as Gene Vidal
2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats as Bob Wilton
2009 Angels & Demons as Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
2008 Deception as Jonathan McQuarry
2008 Incendiary as Jasper Black
2008 The New Ten Commandments as Self (archive footage)
2007 Cassandra's Dream as Ian Blaine
2007 Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene as Narrator (voice)
2006 Miss Potter as Norman Warne
2006 Scenes of a Sexual Nature as Billy
2006 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
2006 Stormbreaker as Ian Rider
2006 The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid as Narrator (voice)
2005 Live 8 as Self
2005 Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III as Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
2005 Stay as Sam Foster
2005 The Island as Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as Obi-Wan Kenobi
2005 Valiant as Valiant (voice)
2005 Troy's Story as Narrator (voice)
2005 Robots as Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
2004 Faster & Faster as Narrator (voice)
2004 Spooks & Creeps as Stroller ("Desserts")
2004 The Story of Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2003 Big Fish as Ed Bloom (young)
2003 Young Adam as Joe Taylor
2003 Faster as Narrator (voice)
2003 Down with Love as Catcher Block
2002 Solid Geometry as Phil
2002 From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II' as Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
2002 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones as Obi-Wan Kenobi
2001 Black Hawk Down as SPC John Grimes
2001 R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
2001 The Beginning: Making Episode I as Self
2001 Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor as Self
2001 Moulin Rouge! as Christian
2001 The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge' as Self
2000 Welcome to Hollywood as Ewan McGregor
2000 Desserts as Stroller
2000 Killing Priscilla as Self
2000 Nora as James Joyce Producer
2000 Happy M’Gee as Happy
2000 Anno Domini as The Stranger
1999 Tube Tales Director
1999 Eye of the Beholder as Stephen Wilson
1999 Rogue Trader as Nick Leeson
1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Obi-Wan Kenobi
1998 Little Voice as Billy
1998 Velvet Goldmine as Curt Wild
1997 A Life Less Ordinary as Robert Lewis
1997 The Serpent's Kiss as Meneer Chrome
1997 Nightwatch as Martin Bells
1996 Brassed Off as Andy Barrow
1996 Emma as Frank Churchill
1996 Trainspotting as Renton
1995 Blue Juice as Dean Raymond
1995 The Pillow Book as Jerome
1994 Shallow Grave as Alex Law
1994 Doggin' Around as Tom Clayton
1994 Being Human as Alvarez
1993 Family Style as Jimmie
Genres
7.22 Documentary 32
7.05 Unknown 1
6.93 Music 6
6.73 Fantasy 9
6.69 Science Fiction 9
6.66 Adventure 16
6.48 Action 15
6.41 History 9
6.38 Crime 11
6.36 War 6
6.34 Family 7
6.30 Drama 43
6.30 TV Movie 3
6.29 Romance 19
6.07 Animation 5
6.01 Comedy 26
5.95 Mystery 7
5.94 Western 2
5.92 Thriller 19
5.06 Horror 3