“I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real lightsaber.”

Ewan Gordon McGregor was born March 31, 1971 and spent much of his childhood in the "haggis and heather" town of Crieff, Scotland. He was inspired to become an actor by his uncle, Denis Lawson, who starred in Scottish movies (Local Hero) and West End musicals (Mr. Cinders) and was also in the first three Star Wars films. "He had long hair, beads and a furry waistcoat. I aspired to be as different as he seemed to me," McGregor says of his uncle. At sixteen, Ewan left Crieff to study drama for a year at Kirkcaldly in Fife, then enrolled at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama for a three-year course. Right before graduating he snagged the role of Private Mick Hopper in Dennis Potter's 1993 six-part Channel 4(UK) series Lipstick on Your Collar and left to pursue his promising acting career. The series was not a success but that didn't stop Ewan from pursuing his goals. He got a bit role in Bill Forsyth's Being Human and then left for France to play the lead role of Julien Sorel in Ben Bolt's major three-part BBC adaptation of Stendah's Scarlet and Black. Ewan's breakthrough role was that of Alex Law in Shallow Grave. With the cult success of Shallow Grave, Ewan went on to star in the sultry erotic film The Pillow Book. But it was his powerful anti-heroic performance as Mark Renton in Trainspotting that really made him a star.

After the brilliant success of Trainspotting, Ewan moved on to other fascinating and challenging film roles; he was the pigeon keeper Billy in Little Voice, coal miner and horn player Andy in Brassed Off, hot Glam rocker Curt Wild in Velvet Goldmine, and quirky kidnapper Robert in A Life Less Ordinary. Ewan soon won the role of the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the three Star Wars prequels. As Christian in the musical Moulin Rouge and later as the sexualy charged Joe Taylor in Young Adam , Ewan displays an ability to take on any type of role and bring characters to life like few actors can.

» FILMOGRAPHY
Actor [film]
Miss Potter (2007) (announced)
The Great Pretender (2006) (pre-production)
Flora Plum (2006) (filming)
Stormbreaker (2006) (post-production)
Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006) (post-production)
Stay (2005/I)
The Island (2005)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Big Fish (2003)
Young Adam (2003)
Down with Love (2003)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Nora (2000)
Anno Domini (2000)
Eye of the Beholder (1999)
Rogue Trader (1999)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Little Voice (1998)
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Desserts (1998)
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
Nightwatch (1997)
Brassed Off (1996)
Emma (1996)
The Pillow Book (1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
Blue Juice (1995)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Being Human (1993)
Actor [voice for animation]
Gnomeo and Juliet (2008) (pre-production)
Valiant (2005) (voice)
Robots (2005) (voice)
Actor [television]
Solid Geometry (2002)
"Karaoke" (1996) (mini series)
Doggin' Around (1994) "The Scarlet and the Black" (1993)
"Lipstick on Your Collar" (1993)
Family Style (1993)

_{"Go ahead, telephone the police,}

_{tell 'em there's a suitcase full of money}

_{and you don't want it!" --Alex}

_{Ewan as Lincoln Six Echo in The Island}

_{Singing his heart out as Curt Wild}

_{"For a vegetarian Rents, you're a fucking evil shot!"}

_{Putting out a candle in The Serpent's Kiss}

_{Hopeful yet doomed romantic Christian}

_{With Naomi Watts in Stay}

_{Hey, Buddy, got a light?}