
Ewan McGregor
Known for Acting · 191 credits
- Born
- 1971-03-31 (age 55)
- Place of birth
- Perth, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- Ewan Gordon McGregor
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (67)

The Daily Show
1996
as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Fargo
2014
as Emmit Stussy / Ray Stussy

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self

ER
1994
as Duncan Stewart

Conan
2010
as Self

Top Gear
2002
as Self

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self

The View
1997
as Self

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest

American Idol
2002
as Self

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest

Nature
1982
as Host / Narrator (voice)

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Ford

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self

Omnibus
1967

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
2026
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)

The Oscars
1953
as Self - Presenter

An Audience with...
1978
as Self

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self

Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
as Self

A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
as Self

Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self

The Jay Leno Show
2009
as Self

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
as Self

Parkinson
1998
as Self

Soccer AM
1995
as Self

Screen One
1989
as Tom Clayton

Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
as David Robert Armstrong

Staged
2020
as Ewan

The Culture Show
2004
as Self

Halston
2021
as Halston

The Last Movie Stars
2022
as Self

A Gentleman in Moscow
2024
as Count Alexander Rostov

TFI Friday
1996
as Self

Doll & Em
2014
as Sleazy Ewan McGregor

Long Way Round
2004
as Self

Long Way Up
2020
as Self

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
1994
as Self

Long Way Home
2025
as Self

The Early Show
1999
as Self

Karaoke
1996
as Young Man

Soccer Aid
2006

Elle Style Awards
1997
as Self - Winner

Lipstick on Your Collar
1993
as Private Mick Hopper

Long Way Down
2007
as Self

This Morning
1988
as Self

Scarlet and Black
1993
as Julien Sorel

Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury
2021
as Narrator (voice)

Buenas noches y Buenafuente
2012
as Self - Interviewee

Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
2010
as Self
Movies (124)

Black Hawk Down
2001
as SPC John Grimes

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
as Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
as Obi-Wan Kenobi

Beauty and the Beast
2017
as Lumière

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Obi-Wan Kenobi

Jack the Giant Slayer
2013
as Elmont

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020
as Roman Sionis

Robots
2005
as Rodney Copperbottom (voice)

Trainspotting
1996
as Renton

Angels & Demons
2009
as Camerlengo Patrick McKenna

The Island
2005
as Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln

Big Fish
2003
as Ed Bloom (young)

The Impossible
2012
as Henry Bennett

Doctor Sleep
2019
as Danny Torrance

Moulin Rouge!
2001
as Christian

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
as Cricket (voice)

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
as Rory Green

A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
as Cowboy at Fair

Mortdecai
2015
as Inspector Alistair Martland

The End of Oak Street
2026
as Greg

Son of a Gun
2014
as Brendan Lynch

Stay
2005
as Sam Foster

Christopher Robin
2018
as Christopher Robin

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer

Stormbreaker
2006
as Ian Rider

Valiant
2005
as Valiant (voice)

Young Adam
2003
as Joe Taylor

T2 Trainspotting
2017
as Renton

The Ghost Writer
2010
as The Ghost

Haywire
2011
as Kenneth

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)

Perfect Sense
2011
as Michael

Deception
2008
as Jonathan McQuarry

The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
as Bob Wilton

I Love You Phillip Morris
2010
as Phillip Morris

Emma
1996
as Frank Churchill

Down with Love
2003
as Catcher Block

American Pastoral
2016
as Swede Levov

The Pillow Book
1995
as Jerome

Velvet Goldmine
1998
as Curt Wild

Our Kind of Traitor
2016
as Perry Makepeace

August: Osage County
2013
as Bill Fordham

Jane Got a Gun
2015
as John Bishop

Incendiary
2008
as Jasper Black

Brassed Off
1996
as Andy Barrow

Shallow Grave
1994
as Alex Law

Raymond & Ray
2022
as Raymond

Miss Potter
2006
as Norman Warne

Amelia
2009
as Gene Vidal

Beginners
2011
as Oliver Fields

Nightwatch
1997
as Martin Bells

Cassandra's Dream
2007
as Ian Blaine

Zoe
2018
as Cole

Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006
as Billy

The Land of Sometimes
2026
as The Wish Collector (voice)

Last Days in the Desert
2016
as Jesus

The Birthday Cake
2021
as Father Kelly

A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Robert Lewis

50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self

Live 8
2005
as Self

Rogue Trader
1999
as Nick Leeson

Little Voice
1998
as Billy

Blue Juice
1995
as Dean Raymond

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
as Self

Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Chris (voice)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2012
as Dr. Alfred Jones

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self

Bleeding Love
2024
as Father

Mother, Couch
2024
as David

And the Winner Isn't
2017
as Self

Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
2005
as Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
as Self

Being Human
1994
as Alvarez

Eye of the Beholder
1999
as Stephen Wilson

Miles Ahead
2016
as Dave Braden

Nora
2000
as James Joyce

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
as Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Serpent's Kiss
1997
as Meneer Chrome

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self

The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
2001
as Self

The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid
2006
as Narrator (voice)

Faster
2003
as Narrator (voice)

Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Ewan McGregor

The Story of Star Wars
2004
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

Fastest
2011
as Narrator (voice)

Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Spooks & Creeps
2004
as Stroller ("Desserts")

Faster & Faster
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Battle of Britain
2010
as Self

The New Ten Commandments
2008
as Self (archive footage)

The Dark Fantastic
2025
as Self

Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
2020
as Self

Charge
2011
as Narrator (voice)

The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car
2016
as Self
The Cow
as Charlie Granger

Doggin' Around
1994
as Tom Clayton

Humpback Whales
2015
as Narrator (voice)

Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
2019
as Narrator

Bomber Boys
2012
as Self
WAMEGO: Addendum
2020

Desserts
2000
as Stroller

Family Style
1993
as Jimmie

The Unauthorized Star Wars Story
1999
as Self

Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
2022
as Narrator (voice)

Memories of "Trainspotting"
2008
as Self
Killing Priscilla
2000
as Self

Troy's Story
2005
as Narrator (voice)

Solid Geometry
2002
as Phil

Anno Domini
2000
as The Stranger

Now You See It
2017
as Voiceover (voice)

Red Point
2017
as Brown

RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
2018
as Self
Gina Carano in Training
2012

A Movie Is Made For Pooh
2018
as Self

Wild Ways of the Vikings
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Happy M’Gee
2000
as Happy

Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
2001
as Self

Ice Bear
2014
About Ewan McGregor
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 W… With 191 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Ewan McGregor has appeared in 124 films and 67 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ewan McGregor Movies
- Black Hawk Down (2001) — as SPC John Grimes
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) — as Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) — as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) — as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) — as Obi-Wan Kenobi
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