Biography
Ewan Gordon McGregor (born March 3, 1971) is a Scottish actor who has starred in numerous film and musical roles. He 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. He was ranked number 36 on Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list in 1997. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fourth most influential person in British culture.
From June 2005 to April 2007, he 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. He played the leading role of Sky Masterson. He received the LastMinute.com award for Best Actor for his performance in 2005, and he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2007.
In 2011, he was awarded with the SIFF Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting at the Seattle International Film Festival. At the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2012, he was awarded the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award and became the youngest recipient of the award.
In 2010, he 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). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity. In September 2024, McGregor received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004. He became a naturalised US citizen after 2016 so he would be able to vote in the 2020 US presidential election.
In 1995, he married Eve Mavrakis, a French-Greek Jewish production designer whom he met on the set of Kavanagh QC. Together they have four daughters, two of them adopted, one a street child from Mongolia he met while travelling in Long Way Round. They separated in September 2018, he filed for divorce in May 2017, and their divorce was finalized in 2020. His daughter Clara had roles in his movies Christopher Robin, The Birthday Cake, and Bleeding Love.
In May 2017, he began a relationship with American actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, whom he met on the set of the third season of the Fargo television series. Their son, Laurie, was born on June 27, 2021 and they married in April 2022.
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Filmography
all 194
Movies 127
self 70
TV Shows 67
Voice 18
Producer 5
Narrator 5
Director 2
Mother, Couch (2024)
A Gentleman in Moscow (2024)
Bleeding Love (2024)
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open (2023)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Raymond & Ray (2022)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022)
KENOBI - A Star Wars Story (2022)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury (2021)
The Birthday Cake (2021)
Halston (2021)
Stormborn (2020)
Long Way Up (2020)
Staged (2020)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Wild Ways of the Vikings (2019)
Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier (2019)
Christopher Robin (2018)
Zoe (2018)
Now You See It (2017)
American Pastoral (2016)
Gimme Danger (2016)
Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart (2016)
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
Miles Ahead (2016)
Jane Got a Gun (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Humpback Whales (2015)
Mortdecai (2015)
Son of a Gun (2014)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Fargo (2014)
Doll & Em (2014)
Ice Bear (2014)
August: Osage County (2013)
Hebrides: Islands on the Edge (2013)
The Impossible (2012)
Buenas noches y Buenafuente (2012)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
Honest Trailers (2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Charge (2011)
Haywire (2011)
Teenage Wildlife (2011)
Perfect Sense (2011)
Fastest (2011)
Beginners (2011)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)
Amelia (2009)
Angels & Demons (2009)
Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension (2008)
Deception (2008)
Incendiary (2008)
Cassandra's Dream (2007)
Long Way Down (2007)
Long Way Down (Special Edition) (2007)
Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene (2007)
Miss Potter (2006)
Stormbreaker (2006)
The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid (2006)
Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III (2005)
Stay (2005)
VM Show Vol. 2 (2005)
The Island (2005)
Science of Star Wars (2005)
Valiant (2005)
Troy's Story (2005)
Robots (2005)
Faster & Faster (2004)
Long Way Round (2004)
The Story of Star Wars (2004)
Big Fish (2003)
Young Adam (2003)
Faster (2003)
Down with Love (2003)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Desserts (2000)
Nora (2000)
Anno Domini (2000)
Tube Tales (1999)
Eye of the Beholder (1999)
Teen Choice Awards (1999)
Rogue Trader (1999)
Welcome to Hollywood (1998)
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
Nightwatch (1997)
Emma (1996)
Karaoke (1996)
Blue Juice (1995)
Kavanagh Q.C. (1995)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Doggin' Around (1994)
ER (1994)
Being Human (1994)
Scarlet and Black (1993)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
Lipstick on Your Collar (1993)
Family Style (1993)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Nature (1982)
Happy M’Gee
Magacine
Long Way Home
Am I Irvine Welsh?
The Land of Sometimes
Everest
The Cow
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1971-03-31 (53 years old)
Birth NameEwan Gordon McGregor
Birth PlacePerth, United Kingdom
RelationshipsEve Mavrakis (1995 - 2020)
SpouseMary Elizabeth Winstead
ChildrenJamyan McGregor, Clara McGregor
RelativesDenis Lawson
CitizenshipsScotland, United States
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States of America, St John's Wood, United Kingdom
Also Known Asإيوان مكريغور, 이완 맥그리거, ユアン・マクレガー, ยวน แม็คเกรเกอร์, 伊万·迈克格雷戈, 伊万·麦克格雷格, Γιούαν Γκόρντον ΜακΓκρέγκορ, יואן מקגרגור, 伊旺·麥奎格, Юен Мак-Грегор, Юен Макґреґор, Еван Макгрегор, ایوان مک گرگور
AwardsEuropean Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award, European Film Award for Best Actor, Donostia Award, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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