Ewan McGregor (born 31 March 1971 in Crieff, Perthshire) is a Scottish film actor who has got important profits within each mainstream & "art house" picture. McGregor attended a Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He is better known for his a portion when a immature Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, but he come to prominence across his role when a heroin addict Renton in the film version of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting (1996). This role followed strong around his moving-picture show debut performance in Danny Boyle's 1994 film Shallow Grave. McGregor hwhen too been featured when a male romantic lead within such Hollywood films as Moulin Rouge! and Down With Love, and in the British film Little Voice. He received fantabulous reviews for his performance in the super grim British film Young Adam (2003), which co-starred Tilda Swinton.

Ewan was too a voice of the loveable golem, "Rodney Copperbottom" in the 2005 alive feature Robots, which also featured a voices of Halle Berry, Robin Williams and Mel Brooks, among others.

The lament motorcyclist since his youth, McGregor undertook a marathon bike hike sustaining his friend, Charley Boorman (son of illustrious Irish-depending British director John Boorman), in 2004. from either either mid-April to the prevent of July, it travelled from London to New York, via central Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia and Canada, for a accumulative few feet away of 18,887 miles (30,395 km).

the sole sections of the hike non undertaken by bike were 580 miles by traaround in Siberia, due to want of roads, & a 2505 mile flight from either Magadan, Siberia to Anchorage, Alaska. the hike formed a basis of a TV series , each known as Long Way Round.

He is presently prima alongside Jane Krakowski in a newly production of Guys and Dolls in London, at the Piccadilly Theatre. McGregor is besides one of the numbers of actors rumoured to exist as a candidate for the next James Bond in 2006.

McGregor is married to Eve Mavrakis, a French production designer whom he met when filming McGregor's guest appearance on the British television series Kavanagh QC. (He has as well appeared in ER)They were married in 1995 & keep close at h& ii girl, Clara Mathilde McGregor and Esther Rose McGregor.

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McGregor is one of a couple major male actors to repeatedly run good-frontal nakedness (within Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, A Pillow Book, & Young Adam). Celebritywonder.com reported inside March 2005 that McGregor may there is no protracted sign autographs because he is "sickened" by the outrageous price levels that humans charge for it. (He did sign autographs when performances of Guys & Dolls in West Prevent, preferring to sign Guys & Dolls programmes.) McGregor's uncle, Denis Lawson, played Luke Skywalker's friend Wedge Antilles in A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. As the stripling McGregor exposed at Morrison Academy inside Crieff. He left school at the age of Sixteen to pursue a career within drama which he favorite to school life.

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