Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor
Ewan Gordon McGregor, OBE is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a leading role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. He is best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting, the young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge!, and Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 March 1971
CityPerth, Scotland
I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.
I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
Conservative's the last thing I am.
Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
I don't do things lightly; I don't take a job then just phone it in - I've never done that.
I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.