Ewan McGregor
Ewan Gordon McGregor (born March 3, 1971) is a Scottish actor who has starred in numerous film and musical roles. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his dual role as brothers Ray & Emmit Stussy in the third season of FX anthology series Fargo, and received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge! and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. He was ranked number 36 on Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list in 1997. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fourth most influential person in British culture.
From June 2005 to April 2007, he starred alongside Jane Krakowski, Douglas Hodge and Jenna Russell in the Donmar Warehouse revival of Guys and Dolls after it transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in London. He played the leading role of Sky Masterson. He received the LastMinute.com award for Best Actor for his performance in 2005, and he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2007.
In 2011, he was awarded with the SIFF Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting at the Seattle International Film Festival. At the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2012, he was awarded the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award and became the youngest recipient of the award.
In 2010, he was appointed by the French government as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight of the Order of the Arts and Letters). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity. In September 2024, McGregor received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004. He became a naturalised US citizen after 2016 so he would be able to vote in the 2020 US presidential election.
In 1995, he married Eve Mavrakis, a French-Greek Jewish production designer whom he met on the set of Kavanagh QC. Together they have four daughters, two of them adopted, one a street child from Mongolia he met while travelling in Long Way Round. They separated in September 2018, he filed for divorce in May 2017, and their divorce was finalized in 2020. His daughter Clara had roles in his movies Christopher Robin, The Birthday Cake, and Bleeding Love.
In May 2017, he began a relationship with American actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, whom he met on the set of the third season of the Fargo television series. Their son, Laurie, was born on June 27, 2021 and they married in April 2022.
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Acted in
Flowervale Street
2025
Mother, Couch
2024
as David
A Gentleman in Moscow
2024
as Count Alexander Rostov
Bleeding Love
2024
as Father
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
as Self
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
as Cricket (voice)
Raymond & Ray
2022
as Raymond
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
The Last Movie Stars
2022
as Self
KENOBI - A Star Wars Story
2022
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury
2021
as Narrator (voice)
The Birthday Cake
2021
as Father Kelly
Halston
2021
as Halston
WAMEGO: Addendum
2020
Stormborn
2020
Long Way Up
2020
as Self
Staged
2020
as Ewan
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020
as Roman Sionis
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
Doctor Sleep
2019
as Danny Torrance
Wild Ways of the Vikings
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
2019
as Narrator (voice)
A Movie Is Made For Pooh
2018
as Self
Christopher Robin
2018
as Christopher Robin
Zoe
2018
as Cole
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
2018
as Self
And the Winner Isn't
2017
as Self
Beauty and the Beast
2017
as Lumière
Red Point
2017
as Brown
T2 Trainspotting
2017
as Renton
Now You See It
2017
as Voiceover (voice)
The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car
2016
as Self
American Pastoral
2016
as Swede Levov
Gimme Danger
2016
as Curt Wild (archive footage) (uncredited)
Last Days in the Desert
2016
as Jesus
Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart
2016
as Narrator (voice)
Our Kind of Traitor
2016
as Perry Makepeace
Miles Ahead
2016
as Dave Braden
Jane Got a Gun
2015
as John Bishop
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
Humpback Whales
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Mortdecai
2015
as Inspector Alistair Martland
Son of a Gun
2014
as Brendan Lynch
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
as Cowboy at Fair
Fargo
2014
as Emmit Stussy / Ray Stussy
Doll & Em
2014
as Sleazy Ewan McGregor
Doll & Em
2014
as Ewan
Ice Bear
2014
August: Osage County
2013
as Bill Fordham
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Hebrides: Islands on the Edge
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Jack the Giant Slayer
2013
as Elmont
The Impossible
2012
as Henry Bennett
Gina Carano in Training
2012
Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission
2012
as Self
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2012
as Dr. Alfred Jones
Honest Trailers
2012
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Bomber Boys
2012
as Self
Bomber Boys
2012
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Charge
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Haywire
2011
as Kenneth
Teenage Wildlife
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Perfect Sense
2011
as Michael
Fastest
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Beginners
2011
as Oliver Fields
Ewan McGregor and Mike Mills in San Francisco
2011
as Self
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Chris (voice)
The Battle of Britain
2010
as Self
Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
2010
as Self
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
as Rory Green
The Ghost Writer
2010
as The Ghost
I Love You Phillip Morris
2010
as Phillip Morris
Amelia
2009
as Gene Vidal
The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
as Bob Wilton
Angels & Demons
2009
as Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
Deception
2008
as Jonathan McQuarry
Incendiary
2008
as Jasper Black
Cassandra's Dream
2007
as Ian Blaine
Long Way Down
2007
as Self
Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Miss Potter
2006
as Norman Warne
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006
as Billy
Race to Dakar
2006
as Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Stormbreaker
2006
as Ian Rider
The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Soccer Aid
2006
Live 8
2005
as Self
Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
2005
as Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
Stay
2005
as Sam Foster
VM Show Vol. 2
2005
as Renton (archive footage)
The Island
2005
as Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Valiant
2005
as Valiant (voice)
Troy's Story
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Robots
2005
as Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
Faster & Faster
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Spooks & Creeps
2004
as Stroller ("Desserts")
Long Way Round
2004
as Self
Long Way Round (Special Edition)
2004
as Self
The Story of Star Wars
2004
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Big Fish
2003
as Ed Bloom (young)
Young Adam
2003
as Joe Taylor
Faster
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Down with Love
2003
as Catcher Block
Solid Geometry
2002
as Phil
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
as Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
American Idol
2002
as Self
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
as Self
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Black Hawk Down
2001
as SPC John Grimes
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
as Self
Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
2001
as Self
Moulin Rouge!
2001
as Christian
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
2001
as Self
Desserts
2000
as Stroller
Killing Priscilla
2000
as Self
Nora
2000
as James Joyce
Anno Domini
2000
as The Stranger
Eye of the Beholder
1999
as Stephen Wilson
Teen Choice Awards
1999
as Self - Nominee
Rogue Trader
1999
as Nick Leeson
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Little Voice
1998
as Billy
Welcome to Hollywood
1998
as Ewan McGregor
Velvet Goldmine
1998
as Curt Wild
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Robert Lewis
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
as Meneer Chrome
Nightwatch
1997
as Martin Bells
Brassed Off
1996
as Andy Barrow
Emma
1996
as Frank Churchill
Karaoke
1996
as Young Man
Trainspotting
1996
as Renton
TFI Friday
1996
as Self
Blue Juice
1995
as Dean Raymond
The Pillow Book
1995
as Jerome
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
as David Robert Armstrong
Shallow Grave
1994
as Alex Law
Doggin' Around
1994
as Tom Clayton
ER
1994
as Duncan Stewart
Being Human
1994
as Alvarez
Scarlet and Black
1993
as Julien Sorel
Lipstick on Your Collar
1993
as Private Hopper
Family Style
1993
as Jimmie
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Ford
Nature
1982
as Host
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
Am I Irvine Welsh?
as Mark 'Rent Boy' Renton (archive footage)
The Land of Sometimes
as The Wish Collector
The Cow
as Charlie Granger
Everest
as George Mallory
Long Way Home
as Self