Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 31, 1971
Place of Birth
Perth, Scotland, UK
Credits
196 titles
Ewan McGregor
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.
Known For
Filmography
The End of Oak Street
Greg Platt
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
The Land of Sometimes
The Wish Collector (voice)
The Dark Fantastic
Self
Long Way Home
Self
Mother, Couch
David
A Gentleman in Moscow
Count Alexander Rostov
Bleeding Love
Father
Off the Rails: The Making of “Trainspotting
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Self
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Cricket (voice)
Raymond & Ray
Raymond
A Cooler Climate
Thanks
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
The Last Movie Stars
Self
Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
Narrator (voice)
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury
Narrator (voice)
The Birthday Cake
Father Kelly
Halston
Halston
WAMEGO: Addendum
Stormborn
Long Way Up
Self
Staged
Ewan
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Roman Sionis
Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
Self
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
Doctor Sleep
Danny Torrance
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Self
Wild Ways of the Vikings
Narrator (voice)
Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
Narrator
A Movie Is Made For Pooh
Self
Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin
Zoe
Cole
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
Self
And the Winner Isn't
Self
Beauty and the Beast
Lumière
Red Point
Brown
T2 Trainspotting
Renton
Now You See It
Voiceover (voice)
Salt Bike: A Year with the Baron
Narrator
The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car
Self
American Pastoral
Swede Levov
Last Days in the Desert
Jesus
Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart
Self - Narrator (voice)
Our Kind of Traitor
Perry Makepeace
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Miles Ahead
Dave Braden
Jane Got a Gun
John Bishop
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)