Ewan McGregor

Often hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation, Ewan McGregor consistently captivates audiences with a diverse line-up of roles across a multitude of genres, styles and scope.

McGregor can be seen in his directorial debut American Pastoral, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. McGregor will also star in the film opposite Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning. McGregor also appeared in Trainspotting 2, where he reprised his role as 'Renton', opposite Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle. The sequel, based on characters created by Irvine Welsh, reunited Danny Boyle as director with screenwriter John Hodge and all of the principal cast of the 1996 film. Based on the novel of the same name by Welsh, the original Hodge screenplay received an ACADEMY AWARD® nomination. The story, set in the late '80s, follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh.

McGregor can be seen in Rodrigo Garcia's Last Days in the Desert, where he plays both a demon and a holy man on a journey through the desert. The film premiered at the 2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL® and was released in 2016 by Broad Green Pictures. McGregor can also be seen in Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead opposite Cheadle and Zoe Saldana. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics.

McGregor marked his Broadway debut as 'Henry' in Tom Stoppard's Tony® Award-winning play "The Real Thing," directed by Sam Gold, opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal. The play opened on October 30, 2014 and ran until January 4th, 2015 at the American Airlines Theatre in New York.

Among his more recent film roles was Gavin O'Connor's Jane Got a Gun, Julius Avery's Son of a Gun, David Koepp's Mortdecai, and John Wells' film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer-and Tony®-winning play August: Osage County opposite Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. McGregor also starred in The Impossible, a drama based on a true story of one family's terrifying account of the 2004 tsunami and the compelling events as they fought to survive in the face of disaster, and Beginners, opposite Christopher Plummer, and based on director Mike Mills' personal story, where he portrayed a man coming to terms with his dying father's latent homosexuality.

McGregor also garnered terrific acclaim for his performance in Lasse Hallström's moving film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen alongside Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas. The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and garnered McGregor a Best Actor Golden Globe® nomination.

From his breakthrough role as the heroin-addicted 'Mark Renton' in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, to the legendary 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, to starring as 'Christian' opposite Nicole Kidman in the OSCAR® and BAFTA award-winning musical Moulin Rouge, McGregor's career has been highlighted by a continuous string of bold and daring performances.

His diverse film credits include: Steven Soderbergh's Haywire; Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, opposite Pierce Brosnan; Amelia, starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere; Jack the Giant Slayer with Stanley Tucci; Ron Howard's Angels and Demons with Tom Hanks; the comedy I Love You Phillip Morris opposite Jim Carrey; Deception, also starring Michelle Williams and Hugh Jackman; the drama romance, Incendiary; Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream; the biography drama, Miss Potter; Scenes of a Sexual Nature, directed by Edward Blum; Marc Forster's supernatural thriller, Stay, alongside Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling; Michael Bay's The Island with Scarlett Johanssen, Djimon Hounsou and Steve Buscemi; Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith; the animated films Robots directed by Chris Wedge, and Valiant directed by Gary Chapman; Tim Burton's Big Fish alongside Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Alison Lohman, Jessica Lange and Danny DeVito; Young Adam with Peter Mullan and Tilda Swinton, for which he received a London Film Critics Circle Awards nomination; Down With Love opposite Renee Zellweger; Ridley Scott's historical drama Black Hawk Down; Rogue Trader; the Golden Globe®-winning film Little Voice, alongside Jane Horrocks and Michael Caine; and the glam rock film, Velvet Goldmine.

McGregor received critical acclaim for his role in Danny Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary, for which he won the Best British Actor Award (for the third time running) at the 1997 Empire Movie Awards. For his role in the BAFTA award-winning Shallow Grave, McGregor was honored with the Hitchcock D'Argent Best Actor Award and a nomination for Best Actor at the BAFTA Scotland Awards. On television, McGregor was lauded by critics, and won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Guest Actor for his episodic role in the NBC television series "ER."

McGregor is a devoted and influential philanthropist, and has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. Additionally, he was the face of the global British luxury lifestyle brand Belstaff.

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