Ewan McGregor
Acting
Born 1971-03-31
Perth, Scotland, UK
196 credits
Primetime Emmy Awards 1
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1
Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1
Donostia Award 1
European Film Award for Best Actor 1
Awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won
- — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Won
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1 won
- — Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Won
Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1 won
- 2013 Officer of the Order of the British Empire Won
Donostia Award 1 won
- 2012 Donostia Award Won
European Film Award for Best Actor 1 won
- 2010 Best Actor Won The Ghost Writer
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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.
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Acting
58 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Conan
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Fargo
The End of Oak Street
The View
ER
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Top Gear
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
Nature
American Idol
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tales from the Crypt
Soccer AM
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Black Hawk Down
Beauty and the Beast
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Oscars
Off Camera with Sam Jones
The Jonathan Ross Show
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Angels & Demons
TFI Friday
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Parkinson
The Island
Trainspotting
The Impossible
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Goldene Kamera
An Audience with...
The Jay Leno Show
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Robots
Jack the Giant Slayer
Doctor Sleep
Big Fish
Moulin Rouge!
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Kavanagh Q.C.
Screen One
Other credits
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Producing
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