Ewan McGregor

Acting · 4.9 popularity

Age

Movies

125

Born: March 31, 1971
From: Perth, Scotland, UK

Biography

Ewan Gordon McGregor (born March 31, 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.

Works

125 films

The End of Oak Street

2026

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

20196.3

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

20157.2

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

20057.5

Black Hawk Down

20017.4

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

19996.6

Beauty and the Beast

20177.0

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

20026.6

The Island

20056.7

Angels & Demons

20096.7

Trainspotting

19968.0

Robots

20056.5

The Impossible

20127.4

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

20206.9

Big Fish

20037.8

Jack the Giant Slayer

20135.9

Doctor Sleep

20197.1

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

20106.3

Moulin Rouge!

20017.5

A Million Ways to Die in the West

20146.1

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

20228.0

Christopher Robin

20187.3

Valiant

20055.7

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

20226.8

Mortdecai

20155.5

August: Osage County

20136.9

The Ghost Writer

20106.8

Haywire

20115.7

Stay

20056.6

T2 Trainspotting

20176.9

Miss Potter

20066.6

The Men Who Stare at Goats

20096.0

Deception

20086.0

I Love You Phillip Morris

20106.4

Young Adam

20035.9

Shallow Grave

19947.0

Jane Got a Gun

20155.8

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

20126.4

Perfect Sense

20116.9

Down with Love

20036.1

Emma

19966.6

Son of a Gun

20146.4

Nightwatch

19976.1

Zoe

20185.9

Raymond & Ray

20226.2

Brassed Off

19967.0

Welcome to Hollywood

20004.2

Velvet Goldmine

19986.9

A Life Less Ordinary

19976.2

Beginners

20116.8

Eye of the Beholder

19995.0

Stormbreaker

20065.2

Rogue Trader

19995.9

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

American Pastoral

20166.2

Amelia

20095.7

Cassandra's Dream

20076.3

The Pillow Book

19956.4

The Land of Sometimes

20266.1

Our Kind of Traitor

20166.0

Last Days in the Desert

20165.8

Miles Ahead

20166.4

Mother, Couch

20245.6

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

20227.5

The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I

20017.3

From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II

20026.8

Little Voice

19986.5

Being Human

19945.1

Live 8

20057.4

The Birthday Cake

20215.1

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

20065.3

50 Films to See Before You Die

20068.4

Blue Juice

19954.1

Jackboots on Whitehall

20104.9

Incendiary

20085.4

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

20016.7

Muse of Fire

20136.5

Within a Minute: The Making of Star Wars Episode III

20057.2

Humpback Whales

20157.1

The Story of Star Wars

20047.2

Spooks & Creeps

20042.0

Bleeding Love

20246.3

Nora

20005.3

Fastest

20117.0

Wild Ways of the Vikings

20196.6

A Movie Is Made For Pooh

20188.0

The Serpent's Kiss

19975.5

Killing Priscilla

20007.7

And the Winner Isn't

20176.3

Red Point

20175.1

Memories of "Trainspotting"

2008

The New Ten Commandments

20088.7

A Short Film About Making Beginners

2011

Gina Carano in Training

20128.0

Faster

20037.7

The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid

20066.7

Troy's Story

20057.0

The Battle of Britain

20106.6

The Unauthorized Star Wars Story

1999

Family Style

19936.0

Off the Rails: The Making of “Trainspotting

2023

Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier

20197.7

The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car

20167.2

Solid Geometry

20024.9

The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'

20016.8

WAMEGO: Addendum

2020

Anno Domini

20009.0

Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor

20019.3

Doggin' Around

19946.0

Now You See It

20175.3

Bomber Boys

20128.0

Teenage Wildlife

2011

Ice Bear

20149.0

The Dark Fantastic

2025

Faster & Faster

20046.0

Happy M’Gee

2000

The Cow

2026

Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook

20204.0

Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene

2007

Charge

2011

RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor

20184.9

Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story

20227.0

Desserts

20006.2

The Polar Bears of Churchill with Ewan McGregor

2001

Salt Bike: A Year with the Baron

2017