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McGregor played the lead role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas' celebrated three prequels to his initial STAR WARS trilogy.
He made his feature debut in Bill Forsyth's BEING HUMAN and the next year won widespread applause for SHALLOW GRAVE, his first collaboration with director Danny Boyle. In 1996 he starred in Boyle's acclaimed TRAINSPOTTING, as junkie Mark Renton.
Early film credits include EMMA with Gwyneth Paltrow, BRASSED OFF and LITTLE VOICE (both for director Mark Herman), Philippe Rousselot's THE SERPENT'S KISS, Danny Boyle's A LIFE LESS ORDINARY with Cameron Diaz, and Todd Haynes' VELVET GOLDMINE. At this time he also guest starred in E.R. and was nominated for an Emmy for his performance.
In 2001, McGregor starred opposite Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's musical MOULIN ROUGE! The same year he made Ridley Scott's BLACK HAWK DOWN.
More recently his credits include YOUNG ADAM, the comedy DOWN WITH LOVE with his MISS POTTER co-star Renée Zellweger, Tim Burton's BIG FISH with Albert Finney, and the animated comedy ROBOTS. He starred in Michael Bay's The ISLAND opposite Scarlet Johansson, and in Marc Forster's STAY with Naomi Watts.
Before joining the cast of MISS POTTER, McGregor returned to the West End stage as Sky Masterson in the Donmar Theatre's production of Guys and Dolls.
McGregor recently shot the film WASP and will next be seen in Woody Allen's next untitled film and is currently filming THE TOURIST with Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams.
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Ewan McGregor Facts
| Birth Name | Ewan Gordon McGregor |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Birthday | March 31, 1971 (37) |
| Sign | Aries |
| Birthplace | Crieff, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Height | 5' 10" (1m78) |
| Awards | 2002 MTV Movie Awards: Best Musical Sequence (for Moulin Rouge) |