Biography
Ewan Gordon McGregor (/ˈjuːən/ YOO-ən; born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama and charity. While studying drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, McGregor began his career with a leading role in the British series Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He gained international recognition for starring as drug addict Mark ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Flowervale Street
2026
A family in the '80s start to notice bizarre happenings in their neighborhood.

The Dark Fantastic
2025
as Self
The Dark Fantastic is a psychedelic journey into the mind of renowned composer Simon Boswell, blending live performances, striking visuals, and interv...

Mother, Couch
2024
as David
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch suddenly refu...

Mother, Couch
2024
Executive Producer
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch suddenly refu...

Bleeding Love
2024
as Father
In an effort to reunite with his daughter after a period of absence, a father takes her on a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Along the way they enc...

Bleeding Love
2024
Executive Producer
In an effort to reunite with his daughter after a period of absence, a father takes her on a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Along the way they enc...

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Over the years, Nicole Kidman, Oscar and two-time Emmy Award winner, became both a pop culture icon & a complex dramatic actress. Her career is a uniq...

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
as Self
With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captures the artistry of a unique tale years in the maki...

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
as Cricket (voice)
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

Raymond & Ray
2022
as Raymond
Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they ...

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
This special explores the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the screen, as well as Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen to their classi...

Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Philip Vincent built the fastest and most glamorous motorcycles in the world - yet he ended his days in poverty. Some 40 years after he died, one of h...

The Birthday Cake
2021
as Father Kelly
On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a ce...
WAMEGO: Addendum
2020
Part 4 of the award-winning Wamego documentary series. It's a slice-of-life during the marketing of director Steve Balderson's feature films HELL TOW...

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020
as Roman Sionis
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare di...

Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
2020
as Self
"Return to the Overlook" is a behind-the-scenes featurette exploring the meticulous recreation of the iconic Overlook Hotel for Doctor Sleep. Cast and...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of gener...
The Saga: Star Wars with Tommy Wiseau
2019
as Obiwan Kenobi
TRAGEDY! ROMANCE! FOOTBALL! When Jedi Master Tommy Wiseau falls head over heels for his princess Anakin Skywalker, the fate of the galaxy is changed f...

Doctor Sleep
2019
as Danny Torrance
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous te...

Wild Ways of the Vikings
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Ewan McGregor narrates a unique nature special looking at the wildlife of the North Atlantic through the eyes of the Vikings. Combining historical re-...

Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
2019
as Narrator
Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland and traces the course of a breeding season as the animals on these remote islands battl...

A Movie Is Made For Pooh
2018
as Self
Behind the scenes documentary short for the movie "Christopher Robin".

Christopher Robin
2018
as Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and lovea...

Zoe
2018
as Cole
Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discov...

RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
2018
as Self
To celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force, Ewan and Colin McGregor take to the skies in some of the world's most iconic planes. These are the ...

And the Winner Isn't
2017
as Self
A satirical documentary charting Geoffrey Moore and his daughter Ambra’s journey through Hollywood, as the pair track down celebrities and industry in...

Beauty and the Beast
2017
as Lumière
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

Red Point
2017
as Brown
A businessman is accidentally mistaken for a murderer of an important person and becomes a fugitive.

T2 Trainspotting
2017
as Renton
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Now You See It
2017
as Voiceover (voice)
A short film about environmental damage.

The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car
2016
as Self
The Bug is about one of the most recognizable and beloved vehicles on the planet: The Volkswagen Beetle. From its dark past in pre-WWII Germany to the...

American Pastoral
2016
as Swede Levov
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their fam...

American Pastoral
2016
Director
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their fam...

Gimme Danger
2016
as Curt Wild (archive footage) (uncredited)
No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete wit...

Last Days in the Desert
2016
as Jesus
On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting himself up for a dramatic test.

Our Kind of Traitor
2016
as Perry Makepeace
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch....

Miles Ahead
2016
as Dave Braden
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

Jane Got a Gun
2015
as John Bishop
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in ove...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Humpback Whales
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Humpback Whales takes audiences to Alaska, Hawaii and the Kingdom of Tonga for a close-up look at how these whales communicate, sing, feed, play and t...

Mortdecai
2015
as Inspector Alistair Martland
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.

Son of a Gun
2014
as Brendan Lynch
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon fi...

A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
as Cowboy at Fair
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious ...

Ice Bear
2014
Sculptor Mark Coreth captures the essence of the Arctic in the form of a life-sized ice-sculpture of a polar bear for Trafalgar Square. As it melts, i...

August: Osage County
2013
as Bill Fordham
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to ...

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

Jack the Giant Slayer
2013
as Elmont
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...

The Impossible
2012
as Henry Bennett
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idylli...
Gina Carano in Training
2012

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2012
as Dr. Alfred Jones
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an...

Bomber Boys
2012
as Self
Brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their documentary The Battle of Britain with a film exploring Bomber Command, a rarely told story from the ...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Charge
2011
as Narrator (voice)
CHARGE is proof that maniacs on motorcycles can be a force for global good. The movie follows several teams to the world's first zero-emissions grand ...

Haywire
2011
as Kenneth
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
Teenage Wildlife
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Teenage Wildlife is a documentary of Ash's 1977 tour, which is narrated by Ewan McGregor

Perfect Sense
2011
as Michael
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a ...

Fastest
2011
as Narrator (voice)
What does it take to be the fastest? From award-winning filmmaker Mark Neale, comes Fastest, a spectacular maximum-speed, full-length documentary delv...

Beginners
2011
as Oliver Fields
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories ...

Ewan McGregor and Mike Mills in San Francisco
2011
as Self
A clip from Mike Mills, Beginners' director, at the San Francisco Film Festival during the premiere night and visiting the Golden Gate Bridge

Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Chris (voice)
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.

The Battle of Britain
2010
as Self
Seventy years on, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battle of Britain, when 'the few' of the RAF faced the ...

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
as Rory Green
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arriv...

The Ghost Writer
2010
as The Ghost
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island aft...

I Love You Phillip Morris
2010
as Phillip Morris
Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force...

Amelia
2009
as Gene Vidal
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a fli...

The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
as Bob Wilton
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Ea...

Angels & Demons
2009
as Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organizati...

Memories of "Trainspotting"
2008
as Self
This 2008 documentary, Memories of "Trainspotting," features interviews with director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge,...

Deception
2008
as Jonathan McQuarry
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chanc...

Incendiary
2008
as Jasper Black
A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.

The New Ten Commandments
2008
as Self (archive footage)
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter d...

Cassandra's Dream
2007
as Ian Blaine
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary on the life & times of 1976 & 1977 500cc World Motorbike Racing Champion Barry Sheene featuring family home movies shot by his father and ...

Miss Potter
2006
as Norman Warne
Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.

Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006
as Billy
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in ...

50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of the fop 50 films to see before you die, as compiled ...

Stormbreaker
2006
as Ian Rider
Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed....

The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid
2006
as Narrator (voice)
THE DOCTOR, THE TORNADO & THE KENTUCKY KID is the electrifying follow-up to Mark Neale’s 2004 MotoGP smash hit FASTER. Narrated by Ewan McGregor, the ...

Live 8
2005
as Self
On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIVE 8 - 10 concerts featuring over 1000 musicians fr...

Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III
2005
as Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
This documentary offers a glimpse into all the people, departments, and work that went into creating the film, specifically, the fight between Anakin ...

Stay
2005
as Sam Foster
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and ...

The Island
2005
as Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled envi...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power – and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.

Valiant
2005
as Valiant (voice)
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon...

Troy's Story
2005
as Narrator (voice)
From humble beginnings growing up on wheat farm in outback Australia Troy one day dreamed of racing bikes. At age 23 Troy's life changed forever. He m...

Robots
2005
as Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now...

Faster & Faster
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Faster & Faster brilliantly captures the events which made the 2003 and 2004 MotoGP seasons so extraordinary: the tire-smoking arrival of the 215mph D...
Spooks & Creeps
2004
as Stroller ("Desserts")
This compendium of six horror shorts starring Matthew Glave, Alice Cooper, Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Gayheart serves up a ghoulish cinematic buffet. T...

The Story of Star Wars
2004
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed i...

Big Fish
2003
as Ed Bloom (young)
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge myste...

Young Adam
2003
as Joe Taylor
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river ...

Faster
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Faster is an electrifying tribute to the white-knuckle world of MotoGP™ — the fastest sport on two wheels — where the world’s top riders go wheel to w...

Down with Love
2003
as Catcher Block
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
as Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
For Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), there were to be many more visual effects than in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (...

Solid Geometry
2002
as Phil
A successful young man's world view is turned upside-down when he inherits his great-great-grandfather's diaries, and starts pursuing the mystical geo...

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could...

Black Hawk Down
2001
as SPC John Grimes
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 ...

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
Mockumentary telling the never before told life story of the fictional robot R2-D2 from the Star Wars film series. The movie was made as a fun project...

The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
as Self
The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this documentary. From pre-production through post-prod...

Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
2001
as Self
Survival expert Ray Mears takes Ewan McGregor the chance to go on a trek of a lifetime. They go deep into the Honduran jungle in search of a lost civi...

Moulin Rouge!
2001
as Christian
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A...

The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
2001
as Self
This made-for-tv documentary treats romance fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann's musical tale of love betwe...

Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Ewan McGregor
A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood...

Desserts
2000
as Stroller
One fine day, a solitary man walking alone on a deserted beach, minding his own business, suddenly discovers a delicious chocolate éclair lying there.
Killing Priscilla
2000
as Self
Lizzie Gardiner, Oscar-winning costume designer and long-standing friend of Stephan Elliott (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) was given permission to do...

Nora
2000
as James Joyce
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibite...

Nora
2000
Producer
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibite...
Happy M’Gee
2000
as Happy
In the near future a neurodiverse man causes a fatal accident with deadly repercussions for his brother.

Anno Domini
2000
as The Stranger
Belfast, Christmas 1999. A poor, badly dressed woman is half walking, half stumbling down the road. She is tearful and her behaviour is so disturbed t...

Tube Tales
1999
Director
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grassho...

Eye of the Beholder
1999
as Stephen Wilson
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

Rogue Trader
1999
as Nick Leeson
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion i...

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for reve...

Little Voice
1998
as Billy
After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedro...

Velvet Goldmine
1998
as Curt Wild
Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncov...

A Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Robert Lewis
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a sp...

The Serpent's Kiss
1997
as Meneer Chrome
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.

Nightwatch
1997
as Martin Bells
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

Brassed Off
1996
as Andy Barrow
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competiti...

Emma
1996
as Frank Churchill
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are ...

Trainspotting
1996
as Renton
Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seeming...

Blue Juice
1995
as Dean Raymond
JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adol...

The Pillow Book
1995
as Jerome
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

Shallow Grave
1994
as Alex Law
When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newf...

Doggin' Around
1994
as Tom Clayton
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previo...

Being Human
1994
as Alvarez
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Family Style
1993
as Jimmie
A young man struggles with grief over the death of his older brother.

The Land of Sometimes
N/A
as The Wish Collector (voice)
Brother and sister Alfie and Elise keep wishing for more, until the night before Christmas when the strange and mysterious Wish Collector appears and ...
The Cow
N/A
as Charlie Granger
A World War II American pilot hatches a plan to use a cow to help him avoid capture and find his way across Germany to freedom.