Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor was born in Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom on March 31st, 1971 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 53, Ewan McGregor biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
McGregor played a key role in Dennis Potter's six-part Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar (1993), six months before his departure from Guildhall. He appeared in the BBC adaptation of Scarlet and Black (also 1993) with a young Rachel Weisz, and made his film debut in Bill Forsyth's Being Human (1994). He received an Empire Award for his work in the thriller Shallow Grave (also 1994). Danny Boyle's film was his first collaboration with him. He appeared in the 1996 Channel 4 comedy-drama film Brassed Off, which was written and directed by Mark Herman. In Boyle's Trainspotting (1996), an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's book of the same name, his international breakthrough was followed by the appearance of heroin addict Mark Renton.
In the British film Little Voice (1998), McGregor played the male romantic lead role. In the Star Wars prequel trilogy, he was cast as the teenage Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi was first played by Sir Alec Guinness in the first Star Wars trilogy. In the original trilogy, Denis Lawson, McGregor's uncle, had appeared in Wedge Antilles. Although the prequels received mixed feedback, McGregor's performance was well received. McGregor said making the prequels was difficult because he had to act mostly against green screens, and the dialogue was not exactly Shakespeare." He also stated that the film's negative reception had been struggish.
McGregor starred in Moulin Rouge!
(2001) As the young poet Christian, who falls in love with terminally ill courtesan Satine (Nicole Kidman), for whom his appearance was widely recognized and nabbed McGregor's first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination was given. John Grimes appeared in Ridley Scott's war film Black Hawk Down (2001) as John Grimes. In Down with Love (2003), he appeared alongside Renée Zellweger. In Tim Burton's critically acclaimed film Big Fish (2003), he portrayed younger Edward Bloom, as well as Barbara Lange, Alison Lohman, and Billy Crudup. He earned critical acclaim for his role as an amoral drifter mixed up with murder in Young Adam (also 2003), which co-starred Tilda Swinton.McGregor appeared in two hit animated films; he portrayed Rodney Copperbottom in Robots, which also included Halle Berry and Robin Williams' voices, and he appeared in Gary Chapman's Vain (both 2005), alongside Jim Broadbent, John Cleese, and Ricky Gervais. McGregor appeared in two roles, one being a clone of the other – opposite Scarlett Johansson in Michael Bay's science fiction action thriller film The Island (2005). Stay, Marc Forster's 2005 film Stay, a psychological thriller starring Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling, was also a headliner.
He narrated the Fulldome production Astronaut (2006), which was built for the National Space Centre. He narrated JetSet, a six-part series following the lives of trainee pilots and navigators at RAF Lossiemouth, as the RAF's primary attack aircraft, the Tornado GR4 is also known as a gruesome six-month course. McGregor co-starred Colin Farrell in the Woody Allen film Cassandra's Dream (2006), and he appeared in I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carrey and appeared in Amelia (both 2009) alongside Hilary Swank. In Roman Polanski's political thriller The Ghost Writer (2010), he appeared as "the ghost" – the unidentified protagonist. In Ron Howard's mystery thriller Angels & Demons (also 2009), Dan Brown's book of the same name and a sequel to Howard's The Da Vinci Code, co-starring Tom Hanks as Robert Landon. McGregor appeared in the British comedy Salmon Fishing, directed by Lasse Hallström and co-starring Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas, for which he received his second Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination. At the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival, he was named with the SIFF Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting.
He appeared on the jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in 2012. He was given the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, making him the youngest recipient of the award. He appeared in the disaster drama film The Impossible opposite Naomi Watts and Tom Holland the same year. In 2013, McGregor appeared alongside Meryl Stout and Julia Roberts in August: Osage County, which was based on Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.
McGregor appeared in the action comedy film Mortdecai (2015) alongside Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany. The film, according to Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph, was "psychologically unfunny." In which he also appeared, he made his directorial debut with American Pastoral (2016).
Mark Renton played Mark Renton in T2 Trainspotting in 2017. In Bill Condon's live action version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, McGregor played Lumiere (originally voiced by Jerry Orbach in the 1991 animated film), Emma Watson and Dan Stevens appeared in leading roles, as well as Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson. In May 2015, filming at Shepperton Studios in London began, and the film was released in March 2017. He appeared in FX anthology series in the third season of Fargo (both 2017), earning him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his dual appearances of Emmit Stussy and Ray Stussy at the 75th Golden Globe Awards. In 2018, McGregor appeared in Christopher Robin, a live-action recreation of Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise directed by Marc Forster, and starred Hayley Atwell.
In 2019, McGregor appeared as Danny Torrance, the older Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep, Stephen King's film adaptation of the same name. He appeared alongside Margot Robbie in Warner Bros.' Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) as the main antagonist Roman Sionis / Black Mask in 2020.
McGregor will reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a new Star Wars television series that will be released on Disney+ in 2022.
McGregor's character in 2021-based on journalist Steven Gaines' candid biography Simply Halston, McGregor produced a moving portrait of Halston, the American fashion designer. McGregor was also billed as an executive producer, along with Ryan Murphy.
McGregor starred Malcolm Scrawdyke in a revival of David Halliwell's Little Malcolm and His Struggles Against the Eunuchs, directed by his uncle, Denis Lawson, from November 1998 to March 1999. The performance appeared at the Hampstead Theatre first time before heading to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End. McGregor appeared in The Play What I Wrote in November 2001.
McGregor appeared in the Donmar Warehouse revival of Guys and Dolls, starring Jane Krakowski, Douglas Hodge, and Jenna Russell, from June 2005 to April 2007 in London's Piccadilly Theatre. He appeared in Sky Masterson's leading role. McGregor was nominated for the Best Actor in a Musical in 2005 by LastMinute.com, and he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2007.
McGregor appeared in Othello as Iago, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona from December 2007 to February 2008. In May 2008, he appeared on BBC Radio 3 for the third time.