Fullt nafn: Ewan Gordon McGregor
Hæð: 1,79
Fæðingardagur: 31. mars 1971
Fæðingarstaður: Crieff, Perthshire, Skotland
Ewan langaði að vera leikari vegna þess að frændi hann Denis Lawson var leikari og lék m.a í fyrstu þrem star wars myndunum.
Foreldrar hans James Charles Stuart McGregor og Carole Diane Lawson voru bæði hins vegar kennarar.
Sem barn var Ewan mjög virkur krakki. Hann hafði dálæti á sundi og köfun og lærði á trommur gítar og franskt horn. Hestar voru líka stórt áhugamál hjá honum og hann fékk vinnu í hesthúsi.
Ewan á eldri bróðir sem heitir Colin sem er núna í konunglega flughernum (RAF pilot). Ewan er giftur Eve Mavrakis og þau eiga tvö börn Clara Mathilde og Esther Rose
Quotes
“Actually, I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.”
“I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.”
“I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.”
“Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in.” - At the 2002 Golden Globe Awards commenting to Melissa Rivers on Halle Berry, who just walked by.
“It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing.”
“I won't buy into the Hollywood thing…I want to be in good movies.”
Myndir:
Being Human | 1993 | Alvarez
Shallow Grave | 1994 | Alex Law
Trainspotting | 1996 | Mark Renton
Emma | 1996 | Frank Churchill
The Pillow Book | 1996 | Jerome
Brassed Off | 1996 | Andy
The Serpent's Kiss | 1997 | Meneer Chrome
Blue Juice | 1997 | Dean Raymond
A Life Less Ordinary | 1997 | Robert
Nightwatch | 1998 | Martin Bells
Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | Curt Wild
Little Voice | 1998 | Billy
The Phantom Menace | 1999 | Obi-Wan Kenobi
Rogue Trader | 1999 | Nick Leeson
Eye of the Beholder | 1999 | The Eye
Nora | 2000 | James Joyce
Moulin Rouge | 2001 | Christian
Black Hawk Down | 2002 | Company Clerk Grimes
Attack of the Clones | 2002 | Obi-Wan Kenobi
Down with Love | 2003 | Catcher Block
Young Adam | 2003 | Joe Taylor
Faster | 2003 | Narrator
Big Fish | 2003 | Young Edward Bloom
Stay | 2004
Flora Plum | 2004 | Jake
Robots | 2005 | Rodney Copperbottom
Star Wars Episode III | 2005 | Obi-Wan Kenobi