Ewan McGregor
Acting
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.
The End of Oak Street
Greg
The Land of Sometimes
The Wish Collector (voice)
The Dark Fantastic
Self
Mother, Couch
David
Bleeding Love
Father
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Self
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Cricket (voice)
Raymond & Ray
Raymond
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
Narrator (voice)
The Birthday Cake
Father Kelly
WAMEGO: Addendum
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Roman Sionis
Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
Self
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
Doctor Sleep
Danny Torrance
Wild Ways of the Vikings
Narrator (voice)
Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
Narrator
A Movie Is Made For Pooh
Self
Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin
Zoe
Cole
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
Self
And the Winner Isn't
Self
Beauty and the Beast
Lumière
Red Point
Brown
T2 Trainspotting
Renton
Now You See It
Voiceover (voice)
The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car
Self
American Pastoral
Swede Levov
Last Days in the Desert
Jesus
Our Kind of Traitor
Perry Makepeace
Miles Ahead
Dave Braden
Jane Got a Gun
John Bishop
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
Humpback Whales
Narrator (voice)
Mortdecai
Inspector Alistair Martland
Son of a Gun
Brendan Lynch
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Cowboy at Fair
Ice Bear
August: Osage County
Bill Fordham
Muse of Fire
Self
Jack the Giant Slayer
Elmont
The Impossible
Henry Bennett
Gina Carano in Training
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Dr. Alfred Jones
Bomber Boys
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Charge
Narrator (voice)
Haywire
Kenneth
Teenage Wildlife
Narrator (voice)
Perfect Sense
Michael
Fastest
Narrator (voice)
Beginners
Oliver Fields
A Short Film About Making Beginners
Jackboots on Whitehall
Chris (voice)
The Battle of Britain
Self
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Rory Green
The Ghost Writer
The Ghost
I Love You Phillip Morris
Phillip Morris
Amelia
Gene Vidal
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Bob Wilton
Angels & Demons
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
Memories of "Trainspotting"
Self
Deception
Jonathan McQuarry
Incendiary
Jasper Black
The New Ten Commandments
Self (archive footage)
Cassandra's Dream
Ian Blaine
Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene
Narrator (voice)
Miss Potter
Norman Warne
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Billy
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
Stormbreaker
Ian Rider
The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid
Narrator (voice)
Live 8
Self
Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
Stay
Sam Foster
The Island
Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Valiant
Valiant (voice)
Troy's Story
Narrator (voice)
Robots
Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
Faster & Faster
Self - Narrator (voice)
Spooks & Creeps
Stroller ("Desserts")
The Story of Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Big Fish
Ed Bloom (young)
Young Adam
Joe Taylor
Faster
Narrator (voice)
Down with Love
Catcher Block
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
Solid Geometry
Phil
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Black Hawk Down
SPC John Grimes
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Self
Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
Self
Moulin Rouge!
Christian
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
Self
Welcome to Hollywood
Ewan McGregor
Desserts
Stroller
Killing Priscilla
Self
Nora
James Joyce
Eye of the Beholder
Stephen Wilson
Happy M’Gee
Happy
Anno Domini
The Stranger
Rogue Trader
Nick Leeson
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Little Voice
Billy
Velvet Goldmine
Curt Wild
A Life Less Ordinary
Robert Lewis
The Serpent's Kiss
Meneer Chrome
Nightwatch
Martin Bells
Brassed Off
Andy Barrow
Emma
Frank Churchill
Trainspotting
Renton
Blue Juice
Dean Raymond
The Pillow Book
Jerome
Shallow Grave
Alex Law
Doggin' Around
Tom Clayton
Being Human
Alvarez
Family Style
Jimmie