Ewan McGregor

Origin and education

Ewan McGregor was born in 1971 in Scotland, His father and mother both taught at Crieff High School, and he has an older brother, Colin, who served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. He has an actor uncle and an actress aunt. Ewan McGregor attended Morrison Academy, a private school in central Scotland, but left when he was sixteen and worked as a stage assistant at the Perth Playhouse. He then studied drama at Kirkcaldy College, before moving on to study drama at the age of eighteen at the Guildhall School of Drama and Music in London.

The beginning of his artistic career

Ewan McGregor got his first major role in a British TV series, just before graduating from Guildhall School, then appeared in two more films after that, then another film called Shallow Grave, for which he won an Empire Award, and his first collaboration at the time with director Danny Boyle, then after that he gained wide fame, due to his role as a drug addict in the film Trainspotting in 1996, then appeared in some other roles in some films until he won a very important role in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, which was released between 1999 and 2005.

The three parts were The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, and he played the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Jedi master.

Ewan McGregor talked about the difficulty of filming the scenes of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, because they were done in front of green screens, and the dialogue was difficult, although his performance was admired by many.

In 2001, Ewan McGregor gave a stunning performance in the film Moulin Rouge, for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. He also appeared in other leading roles opposite Hollywood stars, and played a beautiful role in the wonderful film Big Fish, and also provided voice roles in two successful animated films.

Ewan McGregor has played many distinctive roles, and embodied more than one character in many series and films, in which he excelled greatly. He also received many awards, including the Outstanding Achievement Award in Acting at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2011, and also won the second Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Film. In 2012, he was a member of the main jury at the Cannes Film Festival, then he was the youngest person to receive the Donostia Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2013, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire as a result of his great services to charity and drama. He also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Film or Miniseries for the third time in 2017 for his role in the third season of the series Fargo , He played the role of Halston, the famous fashion designer, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Ewan McGregor has acted in several plays, winning the LastMinute.com Award for his performance in 2005, and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2007.

McGregor was ranked 36th on Empire magazine's 1997 list of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time, was named the fourth most influential person in British culture, and was considered by IndieWire to be one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination.

Charity

Ewan McGregor has been involved in UNICEF campaigns in the UK since 2004, and has contributed to some charitable work for UNICEF with Charlie Boorman in Africa, as well as his contributions to the American charity Go in 2009 and 2010, as well as his contributions to the Children's Charity in Scotland, and many other charitable works that this great actor has done.

Personal life

Ewan McGregor was married twice, to a French Jewish production designer named Eve Mavrakis, and had four daughters with her, but two of them were adopted, and one was a homeless child on the streets that he took in, and he divorced Eve in 2018, and at the time he was in a relationship with the American actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, then he married her in 2022 and they already had a son at the time named Laurie.

Ewan McGregor was more inclined towards the Jewish religion, because of his wife Eve and her raising of her children according to this religion, although he was a Christian, he was very far from his original religion.

Ewan McGregor supports the English football team Manchester City, and was a heavy drinker until he decided to give it up in 2000 due to his deteriorating health. He also became a naturalized American citizen in 2016. He was very upset about Britain's exit from the European Union, and therefore supported the independence of his home country Scotland from England because of that.