Ewan McGregor

**Ewan Gordon McGregor**  (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor who has had a lot of success in both mainstream and indie movies. He is ranked #36 in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.  He played the lead role in Danny Boyle's _Trainspotting_, Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy of _Star Wars_, and in his motorcycle adventures with friend Charley Boorman.

McGregor starred as Christopher Robin in the 2018 Disney movie _Christopher Robin_. He also starred as the villain Black Mask in the 2020 DCEU movie _Birds of Prey_.

McGregor lives in Los Angeles, California. He also has a home in North London, England.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|Director|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1994|_Being Human_|Alvarez|Bill Forsyth||
|_Shallow Grave_|Alex Law|Danny Boyle||||
|1995|_Blue Juice_|Dean Raymond|Carl Prechezer|||
|rowspan="4"|1996|_Trainspotting_|Mark Renton|Danny Boyle||
|__|Jerome|Peter Greenaway||||
|_Emma_|Frank Churchill|Douglas McGrath||||
|_Brassed Off_|Andy Barrow|Mark Herman||||
|rowspan="3"|1997|_Nightwatch_|Martin Bells|Ole Bornedal||
|__|Meneer Chrome|Philippe Rousselot||||
|__|Robert Lewis|Danny Boyle||||
|rowspan="2"|1998|_Velvet Goldmine_|Curt Wild|Todd Haynes||
|_Little Voice_|Billy|Mark Herman||||
|rowspan="4"|1999|_Desserts_|Stroller|Jeff Stark|Short film|
|_Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace_|Obi-Wan Kenobi|George Lucas||||
|_Rogue Trader_|Nick Leeson|James Dearden||||
|_Eye of the Beholder_|Stephen Wilson/The Eye|Stephan Elliott||||
|2000|_Nora_|James Joyce|Pat Murphy|||
|rowspan="2"|2001|_Moulin Rouge!_|Christian|Baz Luhrmann||
|_Black Hawk Down_|SPC John Grimes|Ridley Scott||||
|rowspan="2"|2002|_Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones_|Obi-Wan Kenobi|George Lucas||
|_Solid Geometry_|Phil|Denis Lawson||||
|rowspan="4"|2003|_Down with Love_|Catcher Block|Peyton Reed||
|_Young Adam_|Joe Taylor|David Mackenzie||||
|_Faster_|Narrator|Mark Neale|Voice|||
|_Big Fish_|Edward Bloom (young)|Tim Burton||||
|rowspan="5"|2005|_Logan Swan_|Logan Swan|||
|_Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith_|Obi-Wan Kenobi|George Lucas||||
|_Valiant_|Valiant|Gary Chapman|Voice|||
|__|Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln|Michael Bay||||
|_Stay_|Dr. Sam Foster|Marc Forster||||
|rowspan="3"|2006|_Stormbreaker_|Ian Rider|Geoffrey Sax||
|_Scenes of a Sexual Nature_|Billy|Ed Blum||||
|_Miss Potter_|Norman Warne|Chris Noonan||||
|2007|_Cassandra's Dream_|Ian Blane|Woody Allen|||
|rowspan="2"|2008|_Incendiary_|Jasper Black|Sharon Maguire||
|_Deception_|Jonathan McQuarry|Marcel Langenegger||||
|rowspan="4"|2009|_Angels & Demons_|Camerlengo Father Patrick McKenna|Ron Howard||
|_I Love You Phillip Morris_|Phillip Morris|John Requa Glenn Ficarra||||
|__|Bob Wilton|Grant Heslov||||
|_Amelia_|Gene Vidal|Mira Nair||||
|rowspan="4"|2010|__|The Ghost Writer|Roman Polanski|Alternative title: _The Ghost_|
|_Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang_|Rory Green|Susanna White||||
|_Jackboots on Whitehall_|Chris|The McHenry Brothers|Voice|||
|_Beginners_|Oliver Fields|Mike Mills||||
|rowspan="3"|2011|_Perfect Sense_|Michael|David Mackenzie||
|_Fastest_|Narrator|Mark Neale|Voice|||
|_Haywire_|Kenneth|Steven Soderbergh||||
|rowspan="2"|2012|_Salmon Fishing in the Yemen_|Dr. Alfred Jones|Lasse Hallström||
|__|Henry Bennett|J. A. Bayona||||
|rowspan="2"|2013|_Jack the Giant Slayer_|Elmont|Bryan Singer||
|_August: Osage County_|Bill Fordham|John Wells||||
|rowspan="2"|2014|_A Million Ways to Die in the West_|Cowboy at Fair|Seth MacFarlane|Cameo|
|_Son of a Gun_|Brendan Lynch|Julius Avery||||
|rowspan="4"|2015|_Mortdecai_|Inspector Alistair Martland|David Koepp||
|_Last Days in the Desert_|Yeshua / Satan|Rodrigo García||||
|_Miles Ahead_|Dave Brill|Don Cheadle||||
|_Star Wars: The Force Awakens_|Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)|J. J. Abrams|Cameo|||
|rowspan="3"|2016|_Jane Got a Gun_|John Bishop|Gavin O'Connor||
|_Our Kind of Traitor_|Peregrine "Perry" Makepeace|Susanna White||||
|_American Pastoral_|Seymour "Swede" Levov|Himself|Also director|||
|rowspan="2"|2017|_T2 Trainspotting_|Mark Renton|Danny Boyle||
|_Beauty and the Beast_|Lumière|Bill Condon||||
|rowspan="2"|2018|_Zoe_|Cole|Drake Doremus||
|_Christopher Robin_|Christopher Robin|Marc Forster||||
|2019|_Doctor Sleep_|Danny Torrance|Mike Flanagan|||
|2020|_Birds of Prey_|Roman Sionis / Black Mask|Cathy Yan|||

## Television

- _The Scarlet and the Black_ (1993)
- _Lipstick On Your Collar_ (1993)
- _Tales from the Crypt_ - _Cold War_ (1996)
- _ER_ (1997)
- _Long Way Round_ (2004)
- __Long Way Down'' (2007)

## Discography

- "TV Eye" Single (Soundtrack for movie Velvet Goldmine Cover version of original song by The Stooges - 1998)
- "Gimme Danger" Single (Soundtrack for movie Velvet Goldmine Cover version of original song by The Stooges - 1998)
- "Come What May" Single (Duet with Nicole Kidman - October 2001) UK #27
- "Your Song" single
- "Elephant Love Medley" Single (Duet with Nicole Kidman - October 2001)

## Other websites

- Ewan McGregor to star in "Othello" at the Donmar Warehouse on Theatre.com

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Ewan McGregor
- **image**: Ewan McGregor (29484703150) (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: McGregor in 2016
- **birth name**: Ewan Gordon McGregor
- **birth place**: Perth, Scotland, Perth, Scotland
- **occupation**: Actor
- **height**: 177 cm
- **years active**: 1993–present
- **spouse**:

- **children**: 5
- **relatives**: Denis Lawson (uncle)
- **awards**: List of awards and nominations received by Ewan McGregor, Full list