Ewan Mcgregor's biography

Ewan Gordon McGregor is 51 years old actor born at Perth. He was born on Wednesday 31st of March 1971. According to year of birth 1971 he belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 31st of March means he is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.He was married 2 times.

Ewan Gordon McGregor's spouse

Ewan is married to Mary Elizabeth Winstead

He is native english speaker. Ewan is white scottish. Ewan is citizen of United Kingdom. Ewan is secular humanist. Ewan´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as singer, stage actor, voice actor, film director. Ewan is recently known as television producer.

Ewan Mcgregor's family

Ewan Mcgregor's wife

She is known as stage actor. Ewan´s wife was born on Wednesday 28th of November 1984 in Rocky Mount.

Ewan Mcgregor's ex wifes

Eve Mavrakis

Ewan Mcgregor and Eve Mavrakis have been together since 1995 for 25 years. She is known as production designer. His ex wife was born on Wednesday 22nd of June 1966 in Dordogne.

Ewan Mcgregor's schools

We found 2 schools Ewan attended. Complete list of schools: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Morrison's Academy.

Detailed informations about Ewan´s schools

He studied high school - Morrison Academy, Crieff, Scotland (dropped out).

Ewan studied university - Fife College of Further and Higher Education at Kircaldy, Scotland (dropped out), Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London (dropped out), University of Ulster.

Ewan Mcgregor's career

His main focus is to be actor. Ewan is famous thanks to Trainspotting, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Moulin Rouge.. You could see Ewan also in The Ghost Writer.

Is Ewan Mcgregor gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Ewan Mcgregor's Awards

Received the Film Actor Award for Moulin Rouge! (2001) at the Variety Club Show Business Awards 2002.
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to drama and charity.

Ewan Mcgregor's Rankings

Ranked #36 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Ranked #8 in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of greatest British actors.

Ewan Mcgregor's Nominations

Ewan was nominated for European Film Award for Best Actor for work The Ghost Writer in 2010

What else you don't know about Ewan Mcgregor ?

His middle name is Gordon.

What Ewan Mcgregor has done for a first time

His first name is pronounced "you-an".
He and his uncle, Denis Lawson, have worked with two of the same directors. Both have been in Star Wars films, directed by George Lucas. His first film, Being Human (1994), was directed by Bill Forsyth, who also directed Lawson in Local Hero (1983).
First attempted to quit smoking cigarettes in November 2000, only to start again three months later. With the help of a hypnotherapist, he finally kicked the habit for good somewhere between 2008 and 2009.

Ewan Mcgregor's 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 lightsaber. 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.
I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.
I fight cynicism. It's too easy. It's really boring. It's much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren't as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.
[My fans] say, "I've seen Star Wars and Moulin Rouge! What else should we try to see you in?". I always tell 'em to get The Pillow Book (1996). That would be a bit of an eye-opener for them, wouldn't it?
My uncle would appear back from London, where he lived in the 70s, in sheepskin waistcoats and beads and no shoes. As an actor he had something about him that I liked and wanted to have. So that's one element: to be like my uncle, to be different.
...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.
Then I watched the first episode of Star Wars over and over again. I loved it as a kid. It was a bit funny to be paid for it. I'd say to my wife, "I've got to go and watch Star Wars again, Sorry. I just haven't quite got it..." Brilliant.
[on Star Wars Episodes I and II] I love talking to kids about it, because they have great questions about how things work: "Do you have your lightsaber with you?".
It's strange to explain off camera what you have done in this or that scene. How redundant, like an artist explaining his painting. As much as I like watching movies I've been in, I can't watch myself in interviews. People shouldn't know how we do it.
I am a married man. I haven't been personally involved with all my leading ladies. It would maybe be somewhat glamorous if I had been, but I have not.
Filmmaking is like a series of problems that need to be solved. And the excitement, the adrenaline that you get from making a small film is that you all have to pull together. You finish and you feel like you're walking away from your family. I love that.
Movies are so draining. They pull away from the actor, but theater just fills you up. I needed my fix.
[on acting with digital characters in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)] The guy who's creating that character will create their responses off how you respond to their responses which aren't there. It's a nightmare!
[Aussie World Weekly magazine, 2002] In real life, you don't get up with the sheet after you've had sex. It's not like I'll play a carpenter and wear nothing but a tool belt while constructing a dresser. That's just not safe.
[on researching for Moulin Rouge! (2001)] I needed to go and just find out exactly what it meant to be out and having fun in a kind of hedonistic and debauched environment. That's right, something I wasn't familiar with.
[on Moulin Rouge! (2001)] Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant... does it get any better than this?
[on learning how to use a gun in Black Hawk Down (2001)] Lying down from 50 feet, I was perfect. So I could really kill someone. Which is always good to know.
Nicole, Knickers, as I call her. I would swear, burp and fart in front of her. I'd try and embarrass her and she would pretend to be shocked. I always played up on that. It was a real elder sister-younger brother relationship.
[on coming home to Scotland] There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.
[on his sex appeal] I smoke a lot. I drink far too much-I don't exercise. I torture small animals.
An airport customs inspector once recognized me from Trainspotting and strip searched me looking for drugs.
My dad saw my full package in The Pillow Book (1996) and said "I'm glad to see you inherited one of my major attributes.".
I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.
[Twist magazine] My lightsaber flew out of my hands. No one tells you the sabers have about 10 'D' batteries in them. They burn your hands... I tossed the saber in the air and it ended up hitting a technician in the head.
[on his co-star Hayden Christensen] He's quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life.
In your 20s, you spend a lot of time being self-conscious about what other people think of you. Then you hit your mid-30s and start to realize they weren't really thinking about you that much.
There was talk that Disney fended off the release [of I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)] until after A Christmas Carol (2009) came out. They didn't want kids thinking [Jim Carrey's] Ebenezer Scrooge was a bender.
I like kissing boys on screen. As a straight guy, it's quite an interesting proposition. Anything on a film set that takes you by surprise like that, that gets your blood up, is good.
The Thai perspective on the tsunami I thought was quite a healthy one. They're very straightforward and honest about it, and very much in the present in terms of moving forward.
[About his falling out and reconciliation with former friend and director Danny Boyle]: I just think I've changed my opinion about it. We've all moved on and there's a lot of water under the bridge.
You know how swimming naked is such a lovely feeling? Well, being naked on set is kind of a bit like that.
[After a fan asks him what advice would give for a young Jedi in training] Don't be ridiculous!
(on playing two characters in Fargo (2014)) I'm very experienced with playing with myself
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