Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor married Eve Mavrakis and the couple have four daughters together; Clara Mathilde, Esther Rose, Jamyan and Annouk. They currently reside in Los Angeles, California.

He is a UNICEF ambassador and is an avid motorcyclist. He has also been part of a vaccination program wherein he travelled by foot to administer vaccines to children in India, Nepal and the Republic of Congo.

Recently, he stated that he was a functioning alcoholic, but gave it up.

Ewan Gordon McGregor was born to James Charles Stewart and Carole Diane in the Royal Infirmary in Perth, Scotland. His father was a teacher with the ‘physical education’ department and his mother was a school administrator and a teacher.

He was brought up in Crieff, a small town nearby and he studied at ‘Morrison’s Academy’ and joined the ‘Perth Repertory Theater’.

He then went on to study drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Here, he studied alongside Alistair McGowan and Daniel Craig.

He landed a major role as ‘Private Mick Hopper’ in ‘Lipstick on Your Collar’, a musical-comedy, in 1993. The same year, he also starred in the British television mini-series, ‘The Scarlet & the Black’ and ‘Being Human’.

In 1994, he was lauded for his performance in ‘Shallow Grave’, a thriller, for which he won an important award.

Two years later, in 1996, he got his first major breakthrough as the heroin addict in ‘Trainspotting’, which was a film adaptation of a novel of the same name.

In 1997, he was cast as ‘Duncan Stewart’ in an episode in the famous television series, ‘ER’. His role earned him an illustrious nomination with the Primetime Emmy Awards.

In 1998, he was cast as the protagonist for ‘Little Voice’ and the following year, he starred in the hit, ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace’ as Jedi Obi-Wan-Kenobi.

Ewan McGregor’s first major breakthrough was in the 1996 blockbuster hit, ‘Trainspotting’. Directed by Danny Boyle, this movie centers around the life of heroin addicts, particularly one individual, ‘Mark Renton’, played by McGregor. The movie is rated as one of the ‘Top 100 British films of all time’ and according to a public poll, is rated as the ‘Best Scottish film of all time’. The film collected a whopping $72,000,000 at the box-office and gave McGregor his first major hit.