Ewan McGregor
Acting
🎂 1971-03-31
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.
Cast credits(188)
Self
2005
Self
2010
Self
1996
2014
Self
2014
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self
2014
Self
2015
Self
1997
Host
1982
Narrator (voice)
1982
Self - Guest
1988
Self
2019
Self - Guest
1993
Self
2009
Self
2002
Self
1996
Emmit Stussy / Ray Stussy
2014
1992
Self
2003
Self - Nominee
1944
Self
1995
Self
2002
Self
2015
Duncan Stewart
1994
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
Self
2014
Self
2011
Self
1998
Ford
1989
David Robert Armstrong
1995
Self
2003
Self
1978
Self
2025
Self
2022
Count Alexander Rostov
2024
Self
2002
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2012
Ewan
2020
Halston
2021
Young Man
1996
Self
2010
Self
2007
Lumière
2017
Self
2004
Sleazy Ewan McGregor
2014
Ewan
2014
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
2015
Self
2020
Self
1999
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
2019
Self
1984
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2005
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
2009
Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
2005
Obi-Wan Kenobi
1999
SPC John Grimes
2001
Elmont
2013
2006
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2002
Narrator (voice)
2013
Renton
1996
2020
Roman Sionis
2020
Narrator (voice)
2021
Self
2006
Henry Bennett
2012
Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
2005
Ed Bloom (young)
2003
Cricket (voice)
2022
Self
2012
Self
2012
Danny Torrance
2019
Cowboy at Fair
2014
Christian
2001
Rory Green
2010
Inspector Alistair Martland
2015
Self
2004
Christopher Robin
2018
Sam Foster
2005
Renton
2017
Narrator (voice)
2016
Raymond
2022
Catcher Block
2003
Kenneth
2011
The Ghost
2010
Self - Interviewee
2012
Valiant (voice)
2005
Frank Churchill
1996
Dr. Alfred Jones
2012
Jonathan McQuarry
2008
John Bishop
2015
Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
2022
Michael
2011
Alex Law
1994
Bob Wilton
2009
Private Hopper
1993
Brendan Lynch
2014
Bill Fordham
2013
Jesus
2016
Phillip Morris
2010
Oliver Fields
2011
Andy Barrow
1996
Joe Taylor
2003
Self
1988
Perry Makepeace
2016
Swede Levov
2016
Martin Bells
1997
Stephen Wilson
1999
Norman Warne
2006
Robert Lewis
1997
Ian Rider
2006
Gene Vidal
2009
Chris (voice)
2010
Jerome
1995
Father
2024
Curt Wild
1998
Cole
2018
Jasper Black
2008
Julien Sorel
1993
(archive footage)
2012
Ian Blaine
2007
Billy
2006
David
2024
Father Kelly
2021
Self
2022
Meneer Chrome
1997
Ewan McGregor
1998
Billy
1998
Nick Leeson
1999
Alvarez
1994
Curt Wild (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Self
2017
Self
2001
Dean Raymond
1995
Self
2013
James Joyce
2000
Narrator (voice)
2011
2026
Self
2005
Dave Braden
2016
Self - Nominee
1999
Narrator (voice)
2003
The Wish Collector (voice)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004
Self
2001
Narrator (voice)
2015
Self (archive footage)
2023
Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
2005
Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
2002
Self
2010
Narrator (voice)
2019
Narrator
2019
Self
2006
Narrator (voice)
2006
Self
2018
Charlie Granger
Self (archive footage)
2008
Self
2001
Self
2020
Self
2016
Obiwan Kenobi
2019
Narrator (voice)
2011
Self
2000
Self
2025
Narrator (voice)
2022
Self
2012
Tom Clayton
1994
Brown
2017
2014
Stroller
2000
Mark 'Rent Boy' Renton (archive footage)
Self
2018
Jimmie
1993
The Stranger
2000
2012
Self
2011
Narrator (voice)
2004
2020
Phil
2002
Self
2001
Stroller ("Desserts")
2004
Happy
2000
Narrator (voice)
2007
Narrator (voice)
2011
Voiceover (voice)
2017
Narrator (voice)
2005
