
Ewan McGregor
10 FOLLOWERS • 86 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

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Daily Show

The Graham Norton Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

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

The Jay Leno Show

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Honest Trailers

Nature

Doll & Em

Top Gear

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Last Movie Stars

A Million Ways to Die in the West

The Story of Star Wars

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Beauty and the Beast

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

Fargo

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

Haywire

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

Emma

The Beginning: Making Episode I

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

Black Hawk Down

Mortdecai

Jane Got a Gun

Stormbreaker

Jack the Giant Slayer

The Impossible

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Moulin Rouge!

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Down with Love

Angels & Demons

Robots

Beginners

Doctor Sleep

Son of a Gun

Long Way Up

The Ghost Writer

Halston

T2 Trainspotting

Velvet Goldmine

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Long Way Down

Raymond & Ray

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor

American Pastoral

Long Way Home

Stay

A Gentleman in Moscow

Valiant

Big Fish

Long Way Round

Obi Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut

Christopher Robin

Trainspotting

Wild Ways of the Vikings
Production Credits
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