Biography
Ewen Bremner (born January 23, 1972) is a Scottish character actor. His roles have included Julien in Julien Donkey-Boy and Daniel "Spud" Murphy in Trainspotting and its 2017 sequel T2 Trainspotting. Bremner was born in Edinburgh, the son of two art teachers. He attended Davidson's Mains Primary School and Portobello High School. He originally wanted to be a circus clown, but was offered a chance at screen acting by television director Richard D. Brooks. One of his first notable roles was as a ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Odd Socks
2025
as Beng (voice)
In a world where humans live alongside sock-monsters, a maverick human detective must battle lies, deception, and every movie cliché in his hunt for t...
Freedom's Path
2023
as Silas
A Union soldier flees from battle and is rescued unexpectedly by free Black man Kitch and his friends. Risking everything, Kitch takes William deep in...
Cavewoman
2022
as Brother
During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Insp...
American Sausage Standoff
2021
as Edward Hofler
A character driven comedy about sausages and friendship. Set in small-town America, it's a story about two hopeless dreamers who join forces in a ques...
Creation Stories
2021
as Alan McGee
The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtra...
First Cow
2020
as Lloyd
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon th...
Etta's Mission
2017
as Charlie
Etta Candy and the rest of the Wonder Woman team meeting up to discuss a top-secret mission.
Renegades
2017
as Jim Rainey
In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidde...
Wonder Woman
2017
as Charlie
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
T2 Trainspotting
2017
as Spud
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Carousel
2016
A man doles out a torrent of accumulated wisdom to a teen with unexpected results.
Get Santa
2014
as PC Finkerton
A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself o...
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Expert
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its ter...
The Veil of Twilight
2014
as Rabbi Dunbar
The investigation of a mysterious serial-killer in a mountain village, set in Norway in the mid 1300s.
A Poet in New York
2014
as John Malcolm Brinnin
In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and t...
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Rollo Madeley
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...
Turks & Caicos
2014
as Rollo Madeley
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new...
Exchange and Mart
2014
as Mike
Girls boarding school in the remote Scottish Highlands, 1986. Reg is a lonely 15 year old girl, who stares longingly out of her dorm window at the cha...
Snowpiercer
2013
as Andrew
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that tr...
Drone
2013
as Drone Operator
A day in the life of a Drone operator.
Jack the Giant Slayer
2013
as Wicke
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unlea...
Great Expectations
2012
as Wemmick
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy ...
Perfect Sense
2011
as James
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a ...
Page Eight
2011
as Rollo Maverley
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
as Henry Strangler
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue wha...
One Night in Emergency
2010
Over the course of one night, a man struggles to find his wife in the wards of an inner-city hospital. Journeying through the corridors he meets a ser...
Wide Open Spaces
2009
as Austin
Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles has one - Austin - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each on...
Faintheart
2009
as Julian
A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.
Memories of "Trainspotting"
2008
as Self
This 2008 documentary, Memories of "Trainspotting," features interviews with director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge,...
Marvelous
2008
as Lars
After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her ...
Fool's Gold
2008
as Alfonz
Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When...
Mediator
2008
as Steven
The detective will have to figure out the mysterious death of an English secret agent who came to Tbilisi to sell important secret information.
Death at a Funeral
2007
as Justin
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an ...
Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
2007
as R.L. Stevenson
Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885, Ra...
Hallam Foe
2007
as Andy
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, h...
Match Point
2005
as Inspector Dowd
Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. ...
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004
as Graeme Miller
When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they k...
Around the World in 80 Days
2004
as Inspector Fix
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
The Reckoning
2004
as Simon Damian
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small tow...
The Rundown
2003
as Declan
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's ...
16 Years of Alcohol
2003
as Jake
16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his 1987 novel. The film is Jobson's first directorial effor...
Sweet Dreams
2003
as Gabriel
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Da...
Fancy Dancing
2002
as Bernard Schiff
A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2002
as Salvador Dali
A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film charts Dali's meteoric rise from obscurity to the wo...
Black Hawk Down
2001
as SPC Shawn Nelson
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and ...
Making 'Snatch'
2001
as Self
The making of Guy Ritchie's 'Snatch'.
Pearl Harbor
2001
as Red Winkle
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love ...
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
2000
as Self
The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a ge...
Paranoid
2000
as Gordon
Chloe Keane is an stressed American fashion model living in London who is about to have the worst weekend of her life. She and her boyfriend are invit...
Snatch
2000
as Mullet
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down ...
The Secret World of Michael Fry
2000
as Michael Fry
Council Planner Michael Fry uncovers a sinister plot in his Welsh seaside home town, and finds himself caught in a growing tide of corruption and slea...
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
as Julien
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, anorexic would-be wrestler brother ...
The Confession of Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
as Self
Making of/behind the scenes featurette from the Julien Donkey-Boy DVD.
Love Story
1999
as Nick
Dave, a homeless man, shares a public toilet with narcotic users and alcoholics. Struggling to survive, he resorts to theft to provide for his pregnan...
The Acid House
1998
as Coco Bryce
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor w...
The Life of Stuff
1997
as Fraser
Brutal drama, with the occasional comic twist, about a wannabe gangster who buys a Glasgow warehouse which he plans to turn into the flagship of his c...
Mojo
1997
as Skinny
The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead ...
Deacon Brodie
1997
as Louis the apprentice
Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 Deacon Brodie a master cabinet maker and town counc...
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
as Chaz
A young man's odyssey from a small town in Colorado to Budapest, in search of his estranged girlfriend.
Dead London
1996
as Paul
An ironic and macabre tale of two men who have worked out a theory that allows them to predict violent deaths in the capital.
Masculine Mescaline
1996
as Steve Carlisle
A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger.
Trainspotting
1996
as Spud
Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seeming...
The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet
1995
as Joe
Stuck in their late Grandfather's country cottage with no TV, Anthea, Robert and Chris are resigned to a boring week until they find a mouldy old carp...
Skin
1995
as Billy Boy
A racist skinhead falls in love with a black woman.
Ruffian Hearts
1995
as Mick
An off-beat romantic comedy about the complex relationships between the inhabitants of a Glasgow tenement block. The final film in the Love Bites tril...
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire...
Judge Dredd
1995
as Junior Angel
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his m...
Prince of Jutland
1994
as Frovin
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
Naked
1993
as Archie
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Bye Bye Baby
1992
as Galloway
Exploring the often hilarious world of a young Jewish lad conscript and how he survives the Russians, the Royal Navy and the relationship with his gir...
As You Like It
1992
as Silvius
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad ...
Dreaming
1991
as Sammy Nelson
Unemployed Ayrshire teenager Sammy Nelson is a dreamer, using his vivid imagination to conjure up a gallery of heroes. But far from simply providing a...
The Fool
1990
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...
Meat
1990
An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.
Forget About Me
1990
as Broke
Two Scottish soldiers stationed in Germany head to Budapest to see a Simple Minds concert and fall for a local girl.
Conquest of the South Pole
1989
as Penguin
A Group of unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole.
The Riveter
1988
as Slim
An out of work father is under pressure from social workers and his criminal friends.
Heavenly Pursuits
1986
as Stevie Deans
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles t...
A Girl Named Sooner
1975
as Archie
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made...
Canyon of the Dead
N/A
as Sylvanus G. Morley
Two archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them.
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
N/A
as Self
Explores Caton-Jones' rise from his humble roots in the working class mining village of Broxburn, West Lothian to the dizzy heights of Hollywood, wher...
A Chill
N/A
Music
An odd meeting and ensuing series of events between a man and a tramp.