This is a good article. Click here for more information.
Page protected with pending changes

Ewan McGregor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ewan McGregor

OBE
Ewan McGregor Cannes 2012.jpg
McGregor at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
Born
Ewan Gordon McGregor

(1971-03-31) 31 March 1971 (age 50)
Perth, Scotland
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
    (1971–present)
  • United States
    (2016–present)
EducationGuildhall School of Music and Drama
OccupationActor
Years active1993–present
Works
Full list
Spouse(s)
Eve Mavrakis
​
​
(m. 1995; div. 2020)​
Partner(s)Mary Elizabeth Winstead (2017–present)
Children5
RelativesDenis Lawson (uncle)
AwardsFull list

Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE (/ˈjuːən/ YOO-ən;[1] born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor who has starred in numerous film and musical roles. His first professional role was in 1993, as a leading role in the British Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar.[2] He then achieved international fame with his portrayals of heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama films Trainspotting (1996) and T2 Trainspotting (2017), Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge! (2001), SPC John Grimes in Black Hawk Down (2001), young Edward Bloom in Big Fish (2003), Rodney Copperbottom in Robots (2005), Camerlengo Father Patrick McKenna in Angels and Demons (2009), "the ghost" in Roman Polanski's political thriller The Ghost Writer (2010), Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), Lumière in the live-action adaptation of the musical romantic fantasy Beauty and the Beast (2017), the adult version of the titular character in the fantasy comedy-drama Christopher Robin (2018), the adult version of Dan Torrance in the horror film Doctor Sleep (2019), and Black Mask in the DC Extended Universe superhero film Birds of Prey (2020). In 2021, he portrayed fashion designer Halston in a Netflix miniseries Halston.

In 2018, McGregor won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his dual role as brothers Ray & Emmit Stussy in the third season of FX anthology series Fargo, and received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge! and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. McGregor has also starred in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls (2005–2007) and Othello (2007–2008). He was ranked number 36 on Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list in 1997.[3] In a 2004 poll for the BBC, McGregor was named the fourth most influential person in British culture.[4][5]

McGregor has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004. In 2013, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama and charity. In 2016, he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.[6] He took American citizenship in 2016.

Early life[]

McGregor was born on 31 March 1971 in Perth, Scotland, and was raised in nearby Crieff.[7][8][9][10] His mother, Carol Diane (née Lawson), is a retired teacher at Crieff High School and latterly deputy head teacher at Kingspark School in Dundee.[11][12] His father, James Charles Stewart "Jim" McGregor, is a retired physical education teacher and careers master at Morrison's Academy in Crieff.[13][14][15] He has an older brother, Colin (born 1969), a former Tornado GR4 pilot in the Royal Air Force.[16] His uncle is actor Denis Lawson[2][17] and his aunt by marriage was actress Sheila Gish, which makes him a step-cousin of Gish's actress daughters, Kay Curram and Lou Gish.[18]

McGregor attended the independent Morrison's Academy in Crieff. After leaving school at the age of 16, he worked as a stagehand at Perth Theatre and studied a foundation course in drama at Kirkcaldy College of Technology,[19][20] before moving to London to study drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama when he was 18 years old.[2]

Career[]

Film and television[]

McGregor’s costume from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Six months prior to his graduation from Guildhall, McGregor began a leading role in Dennis Potter's six-part Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar (1993).[2] Not long afterwards, he starred 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).[21] For his role in the thriller Shallow Grave (also 1994), he won an Empire Award.[22] The film was his first collaboration with director Danny Boyle.[2] He had a major role in the 1996 Channel 4 comedy-drama film Brassed Off, written and directed by Mark Herman. His international breakthrough followed with the role of heroin addict Mark Renton in Boyle's Trainspotting (1996), an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name.[2][21]

McGregor played the male romantic lead role in the British film Little Voice (1998). He was cast as the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, released between 1999 and 2005.[23] Kenobi was originally played by Sir Alec Guinness in the first Star Wars trilogy.[2] McGregor's uncle, Denis Lawson, had played Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy.[24] While the prequels received criticism, McGregor's performance was well received.[25] McGregor said making the prequels was difficult, as he had to act mostly against green screens and the dialogue was "not exactly Shakespeare". He also stated that the negative reaction to the films had been difficult.[23]

McGregor at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001

McGregor starred in Moulin Rouge! (2001) as the young poet Christian, who falls in love with the terminally-ill courtesan Satine (Nicole Kidman), for which his performance was widely praised and nabbed McGregor his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination. He also appeared in Ridley Scott's war film Black Hawk Down (2001) as John Grimes. He starred alongside Renée Zellweger in Down with Love (2003).[2][26] He also portrayed the younger Edward Bloom in Tim Burton's critically acclaimed film Big Fish (2003) alongside Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman and Billy Crudup. In the same period, he also received critical acclaim for his portrayal of an amoral drifter mixed up with murder in the drama Young Adam (also 2003), which co-starred Tilda Swinton.[27][28]

McGregor voiced two successful animated features; he played the robot Rodney Copperbottom in Robots, which also featured the voices of Halle Berry and Robin Williams,[29] and he voiced the lead character in Gary Chapman's Valiant (both 2005), alongside Jim Broadbent, John Cleese and Ricky Gervais.[30] Also around this time, McGregor played two roles – one a clone of the other – opposite Scarlett Johansson in Michael Bay's science fiction action thriller film The Island (2005). He also headlined Marc Forster's 2005 film Stay, a psychological thriller co-starring Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling.[31][32]

McGregor at the premiere of The Men Who Stare at Goats at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009.

He narrated the Fulldome production Astronaut (2006), created for the National Space Centre.[33] Around the same time, he also narrated the STV show JetSet (also 2006), a six-part series following the lives of trainee pilots and navigators at RAF Lossiemouth as they undergo a gruelling six-month course learning to fly the Tornado GR4, the RAF's primary attack aircraft.[34] McGregor starred opposite Colin Farrell in the Woody Allen film Cassandra's Dream (2007),[21][35] and he co-starred with Jim Carrey in I Love You Phillip Morris and appeared in Amelia (both 2009) alongside Hilary Swank. He played "the ghost" – the unnamed main character – in Roman Polanski's political thriller The Ghost Writer (2010). He portrayed Camerlengo Patrick McKenna in Ron Howard's mystery thriller Angels & Demons (also 2009), the film adaptation of Dan Brown's novel of the same name and a sequel to Howard's The Da Vinci Code, co-starring Tom Hanks as Robert Landon. In 2011, 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 – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination. At the same year, he was awarded with the SIFF Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting at the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival.[36]

In 2012, he was a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[37] At the San Sebastián International Film Festival, he was awarded the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award and became the youngest recipient of the award.[38] The same year, he also starred in the disaster drama film The Impossible opposite Naomi Watts and Tom Holland. In 2013, 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.[39]

McGregor starred in the action comedy film Mortdecai (2015), alongside Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph felt the film was "psychotically unfunny".[40] He made his directorial debut with American Pastoral (2016), in which he also starred.[41]

In 2017, he reprised his role as Mark Renton in T2 Trainspotting.[42] McGregor played Lumière (originally voiced by Jerry Orbach in the 1991 animated film) in the live-action adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon, with an ensemble cast featuring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens in leading roles, alongside Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson. Filming began in May 2015 at Shepperton Studios in London, and the movie was released in March 2017.[43] He then starred in FX anthology series in the third season of Fargo (both 2017), which garnered him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his dual performance of Emmit Stussy and Ray Stussy at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.[44] In 2018, 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.[45]

In 2019, McGregor starred as the older Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep, the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name.[46] In 2020, he appeared opposite Margot Robbie in Warner Bros.' DC Comics film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), directed by Cathy Yan, as the main villain Roman Sionis / Black Mask.[47]

On 23 August 2019, Lucasfilm announced that McGregor would reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a new Star Wars television series, due for release on Disney+ in 2022.[48]

In 2021, McGregor created a charismatic portrait of the American fashion designer Halston in the eponymously titled miniseries for Netflix, based on the candid biography Simply Halston by journalist Steven Gaines. McGregor was also billed as executive producer, jointly with Ryan Murphy.[49]

Theatre[]

From November 1998 to March 1999, McGregor starred as Malcolm Scrawdyke in a revival of David Halliwell's Little Malcolm and His Struggles Against the Eunuchs, directed by his uncle, Denis Lawson. The production was first staged at the Hampstead Theatre before transferring to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End.[50] In November 2001, McGregor made a cameo appearance in The Play What I Wrote.[51]

From June 2005 to April 2007, McGregor starred alongside Jane Krakowski, Douglas Hodge and Jenna Russell in the Donmar Warehouse revival of Guys and Dolls after it transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in London.[52] He played the leading role of Sky Masterson. McGregor received the LastMinute.com award for Best Actor for his performance in 2005,[53] and he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2007.[54]

From December 2007 to February 2008, McGregor starred as Iago in Othello at the Donmar Warehouse alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona.[55][56] He reprised the role on BBC Radio 3 in May 2008.[55]

Motorcycling[]

Main articles: Long Way Round, Long Way Down, and Long Way Up

A motorcyclist since his youth, McGregor undertook a marathon international motorbike trip with his best friend Charley Boorman and cameraman Claudio von Planta in 2004. From mid-April to the end of July, they travelled from London to New York via central Europe, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Canada and the United States on BMW R1150GS Adventure motorbikes, for a cumulative distance of 22,345 miles (35,960 km).[57] The trip included visits to several UNICEF programs along the route, and formed the basis of a television series and a best-selling book, both called Long Way Round.[58]

The Long Way Round team reunited in 2007 for another motorcycle trip from John o' Groats in Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa.[58] The journey, entitled Long Way Down, lasted from 12 May until 5 August 2007.[58] McGregor's brother Colin joined the motorcycle team during the early stages of the Long Way Down journey,[58] and his father Jim also rode on sections of both Long Way Round and Long Way Down.[59][60]

McGregor appeared in a two-part BBC documentary in April 2012 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. The trip was part of his work as a UNICEF Ambassador.

In a June 2015 interview, McGregor indicated that a long discussed South American trip with Boorman was still in the planning stages, but he expected that an excursion through the Baja California Peninsula would take place first.[61]

On 14 December 2019, McGregor and Boorman finished a three month journey on electric Harley-Davidson LiveWire motorcycles from Patagonia, Argentina, to California, United States, for a docuseries.[62] The 10-episode series, Long Way Up, debuted on Apple TV+ on 18 September 2020.[63][64]

Personal life[]

McGregor married Eve Mavrakis, a French-Greek Jewish production designer whom he met on the set of Kavanagh QC, in 1995.[7][65][66][67][68][2] Together they have four daughters, two of them adopted, one a street child from Mongolia he met while travelling in Long Way Round.[7][69][70][71][72] 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."[73] McGregor has a heart and dagger tattoo of the names of Mavrakis and their daughters on his right arm.[26][74] On 19 January 2018, having been separated since May 2017, McGregor filed for divorce from his wife, citing irreconcilable differences;[75][76] the divorce was finalised on 13 August 2020.[77]

In May 2017, McGregor began a relationship with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, whom he met on the set of Fargo.[78] Their son, Laurie, was born in June 2021.[79][80]

McGregor divides his time between Los Angeles, California,[81] and St John's Wood, London.[82]

McGregor is involved in charity work, including UNICEF UK since 2004 and GO Campaign. During the Long Way Round journey in 2004, McGregor and his travelling companions saw some of UNICEF's work in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia,[58] and during the Long Way Down trip in 2007, he and Charley Boorman did some work for UNICEF in Africa. McGregor hosted the annual Hollywood gala for the GO Campaign in 2009 and 2010. He has worked with the Children's Hospice Association Scotland, as featured in Long Way Down. In 2012, he travelled with UNICEF immunization workers to remote parts of India, Nepal and the Republic of Congo for a BBC2 documentary entitled Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission.[83] In June 2015, McGregor read Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" for the children's fairytales app GivingTales in aid of UNICEF, together with other prominent figures such as Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, and Michael Caine.[84]

In 2007, on an episode of Parkinson, McGregor said he had been a teetotaler for the last seven years. He also mentioned this in an interview with the Irish Independent in 2008, stating that he would often turn up to sets drunk or hungover in the late 1990s and decided to stop altogether to avoid spiralling down further.[85]

In 2008, McGregor had a cancerous mole removed from below his right eye.[86]

In September 2020, after travelling through Chile for the documentary Long Way Up, he revealed he is of Chilean descent due to the fact that his great-grandfather, John (or Juan) McIndoe, was born in Chile when his father worked with the American engineers in the construction of the railways at the end of the 19th century. Later, John went to Glasgow and worked as a wine importer and diplomat.[87][88]

Politics[]

McGregor has voiced his opposition to Brexit. Although opposed to Scottish independence from the United Kingdom in the 2014 Scottish referendum, he later declared during an interview that he would have voted for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom if he had been able to cast his vote the day after the United Kingdom left the European Union.[89] In 2020 he voiced his support for Scottish independence, saying that "it's time".[90][91][92]

McGregor became a naturalised US citizen after 2016 so he would be able to vote in the 2020 US presidential election.[93] During his journey on Long Way Up, he travelled entirely on his US passport.[94]

Filmography[]

Main article: Ewan McGregor filmography

Awards and nominations[]

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Ewan McGregor

In 2010, 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).[95][96] McGregor was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity.[7][97][98]

Bibliography[]

  • Long Way Round, 2004 (with Charley Boorman), ISBN 0-7434-9933-6
  • Long Way Down, 2008 (with Charley Boorman), ISBN 1-4165-7745-9

Discography[]

  • "Choose Life" with PF Project, Trainspotting#2: Music from the Motion Picture, Vol.#2, 1997.
  • "TV Eye" with Wylde Ratttz, Velvet Goldmine: Music from the Original Motion Picture, 1999.
  • "Come What May" with Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film, 2001.
  • "Elephant Love Medley" with Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film, 2001.
  • "El Tango de Roxanne" with Jose Feliciano, Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film, 2001.
  • "Your Song" with Alessandro Safina, Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film, 2001.
  • "Here's To Love" with Renée Zellweger, Down With Love: Music from and Included in the Motion Picture, 2003.
  • "The Sweetest Gift", Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars, 2006.
  • "Be Our Guest" with Emma Thompson, Ian McKellen, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beauty and the Beast, 2017.
  • "Days in the Sun" with Adam Mitchell, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Audra McDonald, Clive Rowe, Beauty and the Beast, 2017.
  • "Something There" with Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Nathan Mack, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beauty and the Beast, 2017.
  • "The Mob Song", with Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Emma Thompson, Ian McKellen, Stanley Tucci, Nathan Mack, & Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beauty and the Beast, 2017.

References[]

  1. ^ Kamla Bhatt (13 October 2016). "Ewan McGregor on Acting, His Parents & 'American Pastoral'". The Kamla Show (Podcast). Event occurs at 0:02. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Profile – Ewan McGregor". Hello!. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  3. ^ "Empire Magazine's Top 100 Movie Stars 1997". Am I Annoying.com. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
  4. ^ Smith, Tony (12 February 2004). "iPod designer voted UK's most influential cultural icon". The Register. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  5. ^ "iPod designer leads culture list". BBC News Online. 12 February 2004. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  6. ^ "BAFTA LA To Honor Ewan McGregor at the 2016 British Academy Britannia Awards". BAFTA. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d "McGregor, Ewan Gordon". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  8. ^ The Hollywood Reporter (26 November 2012). "Ewan McGregor on His Career and 'The Impossible'". YouTube. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  9. ^ "Ewan McGregor 1971". Perth & Kinross Council. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  10. ^ "Starring role for actor's mother Maternity unit closure puts Mrs McGregor in front of the spotlight". The Herald. Glasgow. 31 October 2000. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  11. ^ Dhingra, Dolly (25 January 1999). "Obi-Wan Kenobi's mum". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  12. ^ "Carol McGregor: Malawi Diaries". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. 12 August 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  13. ^ "Morrisonian Club". Morrison's Academy. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  14. ^ "Ewan McGregor biography". Tiscali.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 October 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
  15. ^ "Ewan McGregor Biography (1971–)". Film Reference.com. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
  16. ^ "RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor review – a flyby history from the actor and his pilot brother". The Guardian. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  17. ^ Barratt, Nick (11 November 2006). "Family Detective". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  18. ^ "He is the actor formerly known as Denis Lawson. Now he's more famous as Ewan McGregor's uncle. But he's not bitter". The Herald. 18 May 2001. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  19. ^ Jinman, Richard (3 June 2005). "The Guardian profile: Ewan McGregor". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  20. ^ "Perth Theatre, past and present..." Perth Concert Hall. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  21. ^ a b c "Filmography – Ewan McGregor". Hello!. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  22. ^ "Empire Awards, UK: 1996". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  23. ^ a b "Star Wars prequels 'not very much liked', admits Ewan McGregor". The Guardian. 28 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  24. ^ Star Wars Trilogy (DVD). 20th Century Fox. 2004.
  25. ^ Shepherd, Jack (13 October 2016). "Star Wars: Ewan McGregor wants to return as Obi-Wan Kenobi". The Independent.
  26. ^ a b "Ewan McGregor Biography". Yahoo!. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  27. ^ Slater, Matthew (9 October 2003). "Young Adam's dark tale". BBC News Online. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  28. ^ Dawtrey, Adam (21 September 2003). "Thomas' distrib misstep". Variety. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  29. ^ Hartlaub, Peter (11 March 2005). "It's a bucket of bolts that rattles agreeably. Robots mingles brass, laughs and, yes, Robin Williams". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  30. ^ Holden, Stephen (19 August 2005). "These Brave Pigeons Are Doing Their Part for the War". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  31. ^ Clinton, Paul (22 July 2005). "'Island' just interesting enough". CNN. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  32. ^ Dargis, Manohla (21 October 2005). "Something Is Happening, but Who Knows What It Is?". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  33. ^ "Astronaut with Ewan McGregor". EwanMcGregor.net. 14 July 2006. Archived from the original on 15 June 2008. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  34. ^ "Ground School". STV. 27 July 2007. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2008.
  35. ^ Moore, Roger (29 January 2008). ""Dream" gives wakeup call to Woody Allen". Denver Post. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  36. ^ "2011 Golden Space Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting". Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  37. ^ "The Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes". Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  38. ^ "2012 Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award". BBC News Online. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  39. ^ "Ewan McGregor to Play Julia Roberts' Husband in 'August: Osage County'". The Hollywood Reporter. 12 October 2012.
  40. ^ Collin, Robbie (22 January 2015). "Mortdecai, review: 'psychotically unfunny'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  41. ^ Alm, David. "In Directorial Debut, Ewan McGregor Attempts The Impossible With Philip Roth's 'American Pastoral'". Forbes. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  42. ^ Kit, Borys (4 December 2015). "'Trainspotting 2,' With Original Cast, Lands at TriStar". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  43. ^ "Ewan McGregor to Play Lumiere in 'Beauty and the Beast'". The Hollywood Reporter. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  44. ^ Mitovich, Matt Webb (7 January 2018). "Golden Globes: Big Little Lies, Handmaid's Tale and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Are TV's Big Winners". TVLine. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  45. ^ Lesnick, Silas (26 April 2017). "Ewan McGregor Will Headline Disney's Christopher Robin Movie". Comingsoon.net. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  46. ^ Kroll, Justin (13 June 2018). "Ewan McGregor to Star in New 'Shining' Movie 'Doctor Sleep' (EXCLUSIVE)".
  47. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (1 November 2018). "Ewan McGregor Joins 'Birds of Prey' As Villain Black Mask". Deadline.com. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  48. ^ "The Galaxy Far, Far Away Just Got A Little Bigger…". StarWars.com. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  49. ^ "Halston TV mini-series 2021". IMDb. 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  50. ^ "McGregor play opens in West End". BBC News Online. 22 January 1999. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
  51. ^ Wolf, Matt (25 November 2001). "V Legit Reviews: The Play What I Wrote". Variety. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
  52. ^ "'Guys and Dolls' musical". Guys and Dolls the Musical. Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  53. ^ Singh, Anita (25 October 2005). "McGregor wins theatre award". The Scotsman. Edinburgh.
  54. ^ "The nominees and winners of the 2006 Laurence Olivier Awards". The Society of London Theatre. Archived from the original on 5 February 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
  55. ^ a b "Ewan McGregor returns to London stage for minimum wage". International Herald Tribune. 12 May 2007. Archived from the original on 3 May 2008.
  56. ^ "Ewan McGregor to Play Iago in Othello at London's Donmar". Broadway.com. 11 May 2007.
  57. ^ "Long Ride to Self Discovery" (PDF). The Daily Telegraph. 14 October 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2008 – via Long Way Around.
  58. ^ a b c d e "Ewan McGregor gets back on his bike – this time for BBC Two". BBC Press Office. 15 May 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
  59. ^ Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, David Alexanian, and Russ Malkin (18 October 2004). "Long Way Round". Long Way Round. 42 minutes in. Sky One.
  60. ^ Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, David Alexanian and Russ Malkin (28 October 2007). "Long Way Down". Long Way Down. BBC Two.
  61. ^ "Ewan McGregor secures sponsorship deal for South American road trip". The Herald. 7 June 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  62. ^ "Obi-Wan Kenobi just rode an electric Harley-Davidson Livewire across the Western Hemisphere". Fox News. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  63. ^ Mayo, Benjamin (27 May 2020). "Apple TV+ now includes all classic Fraggle Rock episodes, orders full season reboot [update: official]". 9to5Mac. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  64. ^ Urry, Jon (25 September 2020). "Electric explorers: Exclusive interview with the stars of Long Way Up". Motocycle News. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  65. ^ Pfefferman, Naomi (19 October 2016). "Ewan McGregor's Jewish connection to 'American Pastoral'". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  66. ^ Schleier, Curt (20 October 2016). "Ewan McGregor's biggest challenge: Philip Roth". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 26 May 2018. "I'm married to a Jewish woman," he said of wife Eve Mavrakis.
  67. ^ Macnab, Geoffrey (7 November 2016). "Ewan McGregor interview: 'Trainspotting sequel has a different energy'". The Independent. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  68. ^ Fox, Michael (20 October 2016). "Actor-directors Jewish connections shine on-screen". J. The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved 26 May 2018. he has been married to French Jewish production designer Eve Mavrakis for 21 years
  69. ^ Harris, Ed (11 April 2006). "Ewan adopts orphan from Mongolia". The Evening Standard. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  70. ^ Adams, Cindy (25 May 2011). "Beginning of a new friendship". New York Post. News Corporation. ISSN 1090-3321. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  71. ^ White, Gemma (31 July 2012). "Celebrity adoptions: Love sees no colour". Scene magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  72. ^ Long Way Up, Episode 9: Columbia, Panama & Costa Rica. Event occurs at 38:50–39:50.
  73. ^ Yamato, Jen (8 May 2016). "Ewan McGregor on How a Non-Believer Found Jesus in 'Last Days in the Desert'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  74. ^ "Ewan McGregor Tattoo Pictures". Ready2Beat. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  75. ^ Hearon, Sarah (19 January 2018). "Ewan McGregor Files for Divorce From Wife After 22 Years of Marriage". Us Weekly. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  76. ^ Warner, Kara (19 January 2018). "Ewan McGregor Files for Divorce From Wife of 22 Years Eve Mavrakis: Report". People. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  77. ^ Fernandez, Alexia (14 August 2020). "Ewan McGregor and Ex-Wife Eve Mavrakis Finalize Their Divorce 3 Years After Split". People. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  78. ^ Jordan, Julie; Pasquini, Maria (23 October 2017). "Ewan McGregor Splits From Wife of 22 Years". People. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  79. ^ "Ewan McGregor & Mary Elizabeth Winstead Welcome Secret Baby". ET Canada via MSN. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  80. ^ Mizoguchi, Karen (27 June 2021). "Clara McGregor Introduces Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead's Baby Boy: 'The Greatest Gift'". People. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  81. ^ Gibb, Jessica; Duff, Seamus (15 November 2017). "Ewan McGregor unpacks boxes at new LA bachelor pad after going public with lover". mirror. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  82. ^ Broadbent, Lucy (18 April 2012). "Ewan McGregor interview". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  83. ^ "Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission in the Congo". UNICEF UK. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  84. ^ Dredge, Stuart (18 June 2015). "Roger Moore backs children's fairytales app in aid of Unicef". The Guardian.
  85. ^ "Now Ewan is drunk on sobriety". independent. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  86. ^ "McGregor fine after cancer scare". BBC News Online. 22 April 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  87. ^ Nun, Yenny (28 September 2020). "Ewn McGregor cuenta la historia de su bisabuelo chileno" (in Spanish). Las Últimas Noticias. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  88. ^ "Ewan McGregor tiene un pariente chileno y conoció al terremoto en una fonda en Puerto Montt" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  89. ^ "Ewan McGregor 'totally confused' about Scottish independence". The Independent. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  90. ^ "Ewan McGregor shares his support for Scottish independence: "It's time"". NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  91. ^ "Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor comes out in support of Scottish Independence". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  92. ^ Morrow, Daniel; Traynor, Sian (13 September 2020). "Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor announces he wants Scottish independence". edinburghlive. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  93. ^ Streets, Madeleine (21 October 2016). "Ewan McGregor on Directing, 'T2' and a Possible Obi-Wan Reprisal". Observer. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  94. ^ Long Way Up, episode 5. 2 October 2020.
  95. ^ "Remise des insignes de chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et Lettres à Jim Carrey et à Ewan McGregor". French Ministry of Culture (in French). Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  96. ^ "Award of insignia of Knights of the Order of Arts and Letters to Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor". French Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  97. ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 12.
  98. ^ "New Year Honours 2013: At a glance". BBC News Online. 29 December 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.

Further reading[]

  • Adams, Billy. Ewan McGregor: The Unauthorized Biography. Overlooks Press, 1999. ISBN 0-87951-704-2
  • Bassom, David. Ewan McGregor: An Illustrated Story. Hamlyn, 1999. ISBN 0-600-59653-2
  • Jones, Veda Boyd. Ewan McGregor. Facts on File Inc., 1999. ISBN 0-7910-5501-9
  • Nickson, Chris. Ewan McGregor: An Unauthorized Biography. Macmillan, 1999. ISBN 0-312-96910-4
  • Pendreigh, Brian. Ewan McGregor. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. ISBN 1-56025-239-1
  • Robb, Brian J. Ewan McGregor: From Junkie to Jedi. Plexus, 1999. ISBN 0-85965-276-9

External links[]

Retrieved from ""