Acting
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.
Movies with Ewan McGregor
Black Hawk Down
2001
Beauty and the Beast
2017
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
Angels & Demons
2009
The End of Oak Street
2026
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
Jack the Giant Slayer
2013
Robots
2005
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020
The Impossible
2012
Trainspotting
1996
The Island
2005
Big Fish
2003
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
Moulin Rouge!
2001
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Doctor Sleep
2019
Christopher Robin
2018
Mortdecai
2015
Nightwatch
1997
Haywire
2011
Perfect Sense
2011
Stay
2005
Valiant
2005
The Land of Sometimes
2026
Young Adam
2003
T2 Trainspotting
2017
Stormbreaker
2006
Shallow Grave
1994
Miss Potter
2006
Live 8
2005
Down with Love
2003
Zoe
2018
Deception
2008
Emma
1996
The Ghost Writer
2010
Son of a Gun
2014
Velvet Goldmine
1998
August: Osage County
2013
The Pillow Book
1995
Eye of the Beholder
1999
I Love You Phillip Morris
2010
Jane Got a Gun
2015
Raymond & Ray
2022
The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
Blue Juice
1995
Cassandra's Dream
2007
Brassed Off
1996
Beginners
2011
American Pastoral
2016
Rogue Trader
1999
Muse of Fire
2013
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2012
Amelia
2009
Miles Ahead
2016
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
Our Kind of Traitor
2016
Last Days in the Desert
2016
Little Voice
1998
Incendiary
2008
The Birthday Cake
2021
Mother, Couch
2024
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
Being Human
1994
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Bleeding Love
2024
Spooks & Creeps
2004
Humpback Whales
2015
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
And the Winner Isn't
2017
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
The Unauthorized Star Wars Story
1999
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
Happy M’Gee
2000
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
Doggin' Around
1994
Red Point
2017
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
Fastest
2011
Faster
2003
The New Ten Commandments
2008
Nora
2000
The Story of Star Wars
2004
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
Faster & Faster
2004
Solid Geometry
2002
The Battle of Britain
2010
A Movie Is Made For Pooh
2018
Anno Domini
2000
Family Style
1993
Bomber Boys
2012
Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
2005
Troy's Story
2005
The Cow
WAMEGO: Addendum
2020
Charge
2011
Off the Rails: The Making of “Trainspotting
2023
Memories of "Trainspotting"
2008
Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
2020
Gina Carano in Training
2012
Killing Priscilla
2000
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
2001
Now You See It
2017
Wild Ways of the Vikings
2019
The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid
2006
The Dark Fantastic
2025
The Polar Bears of Churchill with Ewan McGregor
2001
Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
2019
Ice Bear
2014
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
2022
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
2018
Desserts
2000
Teenage Wildlife
2011
The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car
2016
Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
2001
Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene
2007
Salt Bike: A Year with the Baron
2017
TV Shows with Ewan McGregor
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Fargo
2014
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Conan
2010
The Graham Norton Show
2007
ER
1994
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Top Gear
2002
The View
1997
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Nature
1982
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
American Idol
2002
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Soccer AM
1995
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Parkinson
1998
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Oscars
1953
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
2026
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
Omnibus
1967
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
Goldene Kamera
1984
An Audience with...
1978
Screen One
1989
The Jay Leno Show
2009
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
Staged
2020
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
The Culture Show
2004
Halston
2021
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
1994
The Last Movie Stars
2022
A Gentleman in Moscow
2024
TFI Friday
1996
Long Way Home
2025
Elle Style Awards
1997
Karaoke
1996
Doll & Em
2014
Long Way Up
2020
Soccer Aid
2006
The Early Show
1999
Long Way Round
2004
British Film Forever
2007
Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
2010
Long Way Down
2007
Buenas noches y Buenafuente
2012
Scarlet and Black
1993
This Morning
1988
The Spot
Lipstick on Your Collar
1993
Race to Dakar
2006
Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury
2021
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart
2016
Hebrides: Islands on the Edge
2013
Stormborn
2020
Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission
2012