Scottish actor Ewan McGregor made his debut in 1993 in the British television series Lipstick on Your Collar. He followed this one year later by appearing in Bill Forsyth's Being Human and Danny Boyle's thriller Shallow Grave. Two years later, he played heroin addict Mark Renton in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting which won him international recognition.

In 1999, he played the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first of the Star Wars prequel trilogy Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; the character was originally played by Alec Guinness in the first Star Wars trilogy. He played the role again in its sequels Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005).

For his role as Christian in the 2001 musical Moulin Rouge! he received his first nomination for a Golden Globe, for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Eleven years later, he was nominated for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012), in the same category. In 2010, McGregor's performance as the Ghost Writer in Roman Polanski's psychological thriller The Ghost Writer won the European Film Award for Best Actor. In 2016, McGregor made his directorial feature film debut in American Pastoral. He reprised the role as Renton in the sequel film T2 Trainspotting (2017).

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Year Title Role Notes1994 Being Human Alvarez Shallow Grave Alex Law 1995 Blue Juice Dean Raymond1996 Trainspotting Mark Renton Jerome Emma Frank Churchill Brassed Off Andy Barrow1997 Nightwatch Martin Bells Meneer Chrome Robert Lewis1998 Desserts Stroller Short film Velvet Goldmine Curt Wild Little Voice Billy1999 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Obi-Wan Kenobi Rogue Trader Nick Leeson Eye of the Beholder Stephen Wilson/The Eye Tube Tales Director: segment "Bone"2000 Anno Donimi The Stranger Short film Nora James Joyce Also co-producer2001 Moulin Rouge! Christian Black Hawk Down SPC John Grimes2002 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones Obi-Wan Kenobi Solid Geometry Phil Short film2003 Down with Love Catcher Block Young Adam Joe Taylor Faster Narrator Voice Big Fish Young Edward Bloom 2004 Faster & Faster NarratorVoice2005 Robots Rodney Copperbottom Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Obi-Wan Kenobi Valiant Valiant Voice Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln Stay Dr. Sam Foster2006 Stormbreaker Ian Rider Scenes of a Sexual Nature Billy Miss Potter Norman Warne 2007 Cassandra's Dream Ian Blane2008 Incendiary Jasper Black Deception Jonathan McQuarry2009 Angels & Demons Camerlengo Father Patrick McKenna I Love You Phillip Morris Phillip Morris Bob Wilton Amelia Gene Vidal2010 The Ghost Writer Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Rory Green Jackboots on Whitehall Chris Voice Beginners Oliver Fields2011 Perfect Sense Michael Fastest Narrator Voice Haywire Kenneth2012 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Dr. Alfred Jones Henry Bennett2013 Jack the Giant Slayer Elmont August: Osage County Bill Fordham2014 A Million Ways to Die in the West Cowboy at Fair Cameo Son of a Gun Brendan Lynch2015 Mortdecai Inspector Alistair Martland Last Days in the Desert Yeshua / Satan Miles Ahead Dave Brill Star Wars: The Force Awakens Obi-Wan Kenobi Voice cameo2016 Jane Got a Gun John Bishop Our Kind of Traitor Peregrine "Perry" Makepeace American Pastoral Seymour "Swede" Levov Also director2017 T2 Trainspotting Mark Renton Beauty and the Beast Lumière also voice2018 Christopher Robin Christopher Robin Zoe Cole 2019 Doctor Sleep Danny "Dan" Torrance Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Obi-Wan Kenobi Voice cameo 2020 Birds of Prey Roman Sionis / Black Mask 2021 The Birthday Cake Father Kelly 2022 Raymond & Ray Raymond Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Sebastian J. Cricket Voice2023 Bleeding Love Father Speed Is Expensive: Philip Vincent and the Million Dollar Motorcycle Narrator Voice Mother, Couch David 2026 The Land of Sometimes The Wish Collector Voice The End of Oak Street Greg Platt

Television

Year Title Role Notes1993 Lipstick on Your Collar PTE Mick Hopper 6 episodes Scarlet and Black Julien Sorel 4 episodes1994 Doggin Around Tom ClaytonTelevision film 1995 Kavanagh QC David Robert Armstrong Episode: "Nothing But the Truth"1996 Karaoke Young Man Episode: "Tuesday" Tales from the Crypt Ford Episode: "Cold War" 1997 ER Duncan Stewart Episode: "The Long Way Around" 2002 HimselfDocumentary series 2004 Long Way Round 2007 Long Way Down 2010 Documentary2012 Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission Bomber Boys The Corrections Chip Lambert Unaired pilot 2013 Hebrides: Islands on the Edge Narrator Documentary series 2015 Doll & Em Himself 2 episodes 2016 Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart Narrator Documentary series 2017 Fargo Emmit Stussy / Ray Stussy 10 episodes 2018 RAF at 100 Himself Documentary with his brother, RAF pilot Colin McGregor, on the centenary of the RAF. BBC.2019–2020Star Wars Galaxy of AdventuresObi-Wan KenobiVoice; 2 episodes (archive material) 2020 Long Way Up Himself Documentary series 2021 Halston Halston 5 episodesJerusalem: City of Faith and FuryNarratorDocumentary series 2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi Obi-Wan Kenobi 6 episodes; also executive producer 2024 A Gentleman in Moscow Count Alexander Rostov 8 episodes 2025 Long Way Home Himself Documentary series 2026 Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord Obi-Wan Kenobi Voice; episode: "The Creeping Fear" (archive material)

Theatre Year Title Role Venue 1998 Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs Joe Orton Hampstead Theatre, London 2005 Guys and Dolls Sky Masterson Piccadilly Theatre, London 2007 Othello Iago Donmar Warehouse, London 2014 The Real Thing Henry American Airlines Theatre, New York 2025 My Master Builder Henry Solness Wyndham's Theatre, London

Video game Year Title Role Notes Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Obi-Wan Kenobi PSP version only

See also List of awards and nominations received by Ewan McGregor

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