
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(184)

Self
1996

Self
2014

Self
2007

Emmit Stussy / Ray Stussy
2014

Self
2003

Self
2014

Self
2002

Duncan Stewart
1994

Self
2010

Self - Nominee
1944

Self
2015

Host
1982

Narrator (voice)
1982

Self
2005

Self
2014

Self
1997

Self
2002

Ford
1989

Self
2015

Self
2003

1992

Self - Guest
1988

Lumière
2017

Self
1978

Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
2015

Self
2003

Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
2019

Self
2014

Self - Guest
1993

SPC John Grimes
2001

Roman Sionis
2020

Self
2011

Self
1998

Obi-Wan Kenobi
2005

Obi-Wan Kenobi
1999

Self
2019

Elmont
2013

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
2009
Self
1984

Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
2005

Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022

Rory Green
2010

Renton
1996

Self
2025

Ed Bloom (young)
2003

Obi-Wan Kenobi
2002

Self
2002

Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
2005

Henry Bennett
2012

Self
1995

Christian
2001

David Robert Armstrong
1995

Danny Torrance
2019

Inspector Alistair Martland
2015

Cowboy at Fair
2014

Cricket (voice)
2022

Count Alexander Rostov
2024

Self
2009

Self
2004

Ewan
2020

Self
2020

The Ghost
2010

Self
2004

Alex Law
1994

Self
2007

Kenneth
2011

Christopher Robin
2018

Brendan Lynch
2014

Catcher Block
2003

Renton
2017

Bob Wilton
2009

Sam Foster
2005

Valiant (voice)
2005

Frank Churchill
1996

Ian Rider
2006

Jonathan McQuarry
2008

Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
2022

Phillip Morris
2010

Bill Fordham
2013

Halston
2021

Stephen Wilson
1999

Swede Levov
2016

Dr. Alfred Jones
2012

Raymond
2022

Joe Taylor
2003

Norman Warne
2006
Obiwan Kenobi
2019

Gene Vidal
2009

Oliver Fields
2011

Self
2022

Martin Bells
1997

Billy
2006

Self
1996

Perry Makepeace
2016

Father Kelly
2021

Robert Lewis
1997

Curt Wild
1998

John Bishop
2015

(archive footage)
2012

Self
2005

Cole
2018

Andy Barrow
1996

Ian Blaine
2007

Michael
2011

Dean Raymond
1995

Jasper Black
2008

Nick Leeson
1999

Jesus
2016
Self
2000

Billy
1998

Young Man
1996

Ewan McGregor
2000

Dave Braden
2016

Brown
2017

Sleazy Ewan McGregor
2014

Ewan
2014

Jerome
1995

2006

Self
2008

Self - Interviewee
2012

2026

Self
2001

David
2024

Self
2006

Private Hopper
1993

Father
2024

Self
2017

Self
2022

Self
2001

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004

Self
1988

Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
2002

Chris (voice)
2010

Self
2001

Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
2005

Narrator (voice)
2011

Alvarez
1994

Self
2013

Self
2006

Meneer Chrome
1997

Julien Sorel
1993

Tom Clayton
1994

Self
2010
Stroller ("Desserts")
2004

Self - Narrator (voice)
2016

Narrator (voice)
2007

The Stranger
2000

Self
2018

Phil
2002

Self
1999

Narrator (voice)
2021

James Joyce
2000

Narrator (voice)
2015
Charlie Granger

Narrator (voice)
2006
2012

Narrator (voice)
2019

Self
2001

Self
2012

The Wish Collector (voice)

Narrator (voice)
2003

Self
2016

Self (archive footage)
2008

Narrator (voice)
2013

2020

Self
2025

Self - Nominee
1999

Self
2020

Narrator
2019

Self
2010

Self
2012

Narrator (voice)
2004
Narrator (voice)
2011

Self
2018

Jimmie
1993
2020

Narrator (voice)
2011

Narrator (voice)
2022
Happy
2000

Stroller
2000

Narrator (voice)
2005

Self
2011

Voiceover (voice)
2017

2014