
Ewan McGregor
10 FOLLOWERS • 102 CREDITS • MAR 31, 1971 • 54
Biography
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.
Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Golden Globe Awards

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Daily Show

The Graham Norton Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

ER

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Teen Choice Awards

Tales from the Crypt

The Early Show

The Late Late Show with James Corden

American Idol

Soccer AM

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Jonathan Ross Show

A Little Late with Lilly Singh

Nature

The Jay Leno Show

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Honest Trailers

Parkinson

Staged

Top Gear

The Last Movie Stars

Doll & Em

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

A Million Ways to Die in the West

The Story of Star Wars

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Karaoke

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

Gimme Danger

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'

Beauty and the Beast

Fargo

Haywire

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Emma

August: Osage County

Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III

The Beginning: Making Episode I

Mortdecai

Jane Got a Gun

Black Hawk Down

Stormbreaker

Jack the Giant Slayer

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Bomber Boys

The Impossible

Angels & Demons

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Down with Love

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury

Beginners

Son of a Gun

Trainspotting

Christopher Robin

Obi-Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut

Long Way Up

Bomber Boys

Halston

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

A Gentleman in Moscow

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Valiant

Long Way Down

Stormborn

Long Way Round

American Pastoral

Hebrides: Islands on the Edge

Obi Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut

Robots

The Ghost Writer

Moulin Rouge!

T2 Trainspotting

Long Way Home

Stay

RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Doctor Sleep

Raymond & Ray

Big Fish

Velvet Goldmine

Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart

Wild Ways of the Vikings
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