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Ewan McGregor
Perth, Scotland, UK
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 Ord…
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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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2026
The End of Oak Street
Movie Greg Platt
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2026
Untold UK: Vinnie Jones
Movie Self - (archive footage)
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2026
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
TV show Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
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2026
The Land of Sometimes
Movie The Wish Collector (voice)
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2025
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
TV show Self (footage)
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2025
The Dark Fantastic
Movie Self
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2025
Long Way Home
TV show Self
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2024
Mother, Couch
Movie David
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2024
A Gentleman in Moscow
TV show Count Alexander Rostov
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2024
Bleeding Love
Movie Father
- 2023
- 2022
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2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Movie Cricket (voice)
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2022
Raymond & Ray
Movie Raymond
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2022
A Cooler Climate
Movie Thanks
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2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Movie Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
More credits
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2022
The Last Movie Stars
TV show Self
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2022
Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
TV show Obi-Wan Kenobi
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2021
Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2021
The Birthday Cake
Movie Father Kelly
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2021
Halston
TV show Halston
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2020
WAMEGO: Addendum
Movie
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2020
Stormborn
TV show
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2020
Long Way Up
TV show Self
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2020
Staged
TV show Ewan
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2020
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Movie Roman Sionis
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2020
Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
Movie Self
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2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Movie Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
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2019
Doctor Sleep
Movie Danny Torrance
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2019
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
TV show Self
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2019
Wild Ways of the Vikings
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
Movie Narrator
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2018
A Movie Is Made For Pooh
Movie Self
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2018
Christopher Robin
Movie Christopher Robin
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2018
Zoe
Movie Cole
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2018
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
Movie Self
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2017
And the Winner Isn't
Movie Self
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2017
Beauty and the Beast
Movie Lumière
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2017
Red Point
Movie Brown
