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Ewan McGregor
Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. 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 service to drama and charity.
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entertainment · Scottish actor (born 1971) · actor · singer · stage actor · voice actor · film director · television producer · film actor · also Ewan McGregor, McGregor
Born 31 March 1971 · Q165518
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2026· 5 entries
Yahoo: Ewan McGregor spills on 'The End of Oak Street' ending you didn't see
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AOL: Ewan McGregor’s 6-Episode Sci-Fi Series Is the Most Underrated Space Opera of the Decade
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The Guardian: Wayne McGregor: Alchemies review – this spellbinding dancing will make you swoon
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The Guardian: Down with Love: Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger’s perfectly offbeat 60s fantasy
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2025· 5 entries
The Guardian: Long Way Home review – Ewan McGregor’s latest motorbike adventure is mesmerising slow TV
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The Guardian: My Master Builder review – Ewan McGregor’s cheating starchitect is torn down
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The Guardian: ‘I always thought it would be amazing to be the first person to play a role’: Ewan McGregor on his return to the UK stage
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McGregor rejoined his youth pipe band the Morrison's Academy; he invited the band to his estate in Carse of Gowrie, where he alongside the band played a special show for his parents
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In 2025, McGregor rejoined his youth pipe band the Morrison's Academy; he invited the band to his estate in Carse of Gowrie, where he alongside the band played a special show for his parents.
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: Ewan McGregor returns to the West End in new play My Master Builder
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The Guardian: Bleeding Love review – Ewan and Carla McGregor star in listless father-daughter drama
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The Guardian: Nepo-disasters: why Ewan and Clara McGregor are only the latest onscreen parent-child embarrassment
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McGregor and Boorman – with their principal support crew from the previous Long Way journeys – undertook a fourth international trip, this time on a 1974 Moto Guzzi Eldorado police motorcycle, while Boorman chose a BMW R
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2022· 1 entry
McGregor voiced Sebastián J
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Colin McGregor, the brother of actor Ewan McGregor (who played Obi-Wan Kenobi), used the call sign "Obi-Two" in the Royal Air Force.” Unproven.
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McGregor played the American fashion designer Halston in the eponymously titled miniseries for Netflix, based on the candid biography Simply Halston by journalist Steven Gaines
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2020· 2 entries
Appeared opposite Margot Robbie in Warner Bros
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Voiced his support for Scottish independence, saying that "it's time"
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2019· 2 entries
McGregor and Boorman – with their principal support crew from the previous two Long Way journeys – undertook a third international trip, this time on Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycles
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McGregor starred as the older Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep, the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name
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2018· 2 entries
McGregor starred as the adult version of the titular character in Christopher Robin, a live-action adaptation of Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise directed by Marc Forster and starred alongside Hayley Atwell
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On 19 January 2018, having been separated since May 2017, McGregor filed for divorce from Mavrakis, citing irreconcilable differences; the divorce was finalised on 13 August 2020.
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2017· 2 entries
Refused to appear on Piers Morgan's show after Morgan made disparaging remarks about the participants of the 2017 Women's March
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Reprised his role as Mark Renton in T2 Trainspotting
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2016· 3 entries
"My involvement in religion has more to do with the Jewish faith now and not the Christian faith, which I was very vaguely brought up in
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With his children raised in Mavrakis's Jewish faith, McGregor said in 2016, "My involvement in religion has more to do with the Jewish faith now and not the Christian faith, which I was very vaguely brought up in." McGregor has a heart and dagger tattoo of the names of Mavrakis and their daughters on his right arm.
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McGregor became a naturalised US citizen after 2016 so he would be able to vote in the 2020 US presidential election.
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2013).
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McGregor starred alongside Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in August: Osage County, which was based on Tracy Letts's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name
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Was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his service to drama and charity
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2012· 5 entries
Awarded Donostia Award (2012).
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Entitled Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission in which he travels by motorbike, boat, plane, and foot to deliver vaccines to children in remote parts of India, Nepal and the Republic of Congo
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Travelled with UNICEF immunisation workers to remote parts of India, Nepal and the Republic of Congo for a BBC2 documentary entitled Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission
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Was a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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In 2012, he travelled with UNICEF immunisation workers to remote parts of India, Nepal and the Republic of Congo for a BBC2 documentary entitled Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission.
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2011· 1 entry
McGregor starred in the British comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 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 – Mo
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Actor for The Ghost Writer (2010).
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McGregor was appointed by the French government as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight of the Order of the Arts and Letters)
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2009· 2 entries
McGregor hosted the annual Hollywood gala for the GO Campaign in 2009 and 2010.
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Said, "Women are always expected to be naked in films, but I like to try and do it so they are not naked—have the women not be naked
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2008· 3 entries
Stating that he would often turn up to sets drunk or hung over in the late 1990s, and that he decided to stop altogether to avoid spiralling down further
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In 2008, McGregor had a cancerous mole removed from below his right eye.
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McGregor had a cancerous mole removed from below his right eye
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2007· 4 entries
For another international motorcycle trip, from John o' Groats in Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa
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Released album “Long Way Down”.
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On an episode of Parkinson, McGregor said he had been a teetotaller for the last seven years
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In 2007, on an episode of Parkinson, McGregor said he had been a teetotaller for the last seven years.
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2005· 1 entry
And he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2007
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2004· 4 entries
McGregor undertook an international motorcycling trip with his best friend Charley Boorman, accompanied by cameraman Claudio von Planta and a support crew
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McGregor and his travelling companions saw some of UNICEF's work in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia, and during the Long Way Down trip in 2007, he and Charley Boorman did some work for UNICEF in Africa
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McGregor is involved in charity work, including UNICEF UK since 2004 and GO Campaign.
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“My involvement in religion has more to do with the Jewish faith now and not the Christian faith, which I was very vaguely brought up in.”
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award (2001).
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1998· 1 entry
McGregor played the male romantic lead role in the British film Little Voice, and rockstar Curt Wild in the film Velvet Goldmine directed by Todd Haynes
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1971· 1 entry
Born 1971-03-31.
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