Cast & creator
Ewan McGregor
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Daily Show
Ewan Gordon McGregor (born March 31, 1971) is a Scottish actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama and charity. While studying drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, McGregor began his career with a leading role in the British series Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He gained international recognition for starring as drug addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996) and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005). His career progressed with starring roles in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), action film Black Hawk Down (2001), fantasy film Big Fish (2003), and thriller Angels and Demons (2009). He gained praise for his performances in the thriller The Ghost Writer (2010) and romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011). McGregor made his directorial debut with the crime film American Pastoral (2016), in which he also starred. For his dual role as brothers Ray and Emmit Stussy in the third season of the anthology series Fargo (2017), he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. He voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast (2017), and played the title role in Christopher Robin (2018), Dan Torrance in Doctor Sleep (2019), and Black Mask in Birds of Prey (2020). He reprised his role as Kenobi in the 2022 miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of fashion designer Halston in the miniseries Halston (2021). McGregor has also starred in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls (2005–2007) and Othello (2007–2008). He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004.
Also known as: Ewan Gordon McGregor
132
film credits
85
television credits
199
1944–2026 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (217)
Showing 217 of 217 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The End of Oak Street
Greg Platt
2026
Conan
Self
2010
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The View
Self
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self
2015
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Fargo
Emmit Stussy / Ray Stussy
2014
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
ER
Duncan Stewart
1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
The South Bank Show
1978
American Idol
Self
2002
Top Gear
Self
2002
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Nature
Host
1982Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Self
2019
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Tales from the Crypt
Ford
1989
Omnibus
1967
Parkinson
Self
1998
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self
2014
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
2011
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self
2002
The Oscars
Self - Presenter
1953
Soccer AM
Self
1995
The Jay Leno Show
Self
2009
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
2026
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
TFI Friday
Self
1996
Black Hawk Down
Grimes
2001
Beauty and the Beast
Lumière
2017
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice) (uncredited)
2015Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Angels & Demons
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
2009
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Obi-Wan Kenobi
1999
The Culture Show
Self
2004
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022Obi-Wan Kenobi
Executive Producer
2022
Screen One
Tom Clayton
1989
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice)
2019
The Island
Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
2005
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Roman Sionis
2020
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2005
Doctor Sleep
Danny Torrance
2019
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2002
Kavanagh Q.C.
David Robert Armstrong
1995
The Impossible
Henry Bennett
2012
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Cricket (voice)
2022
Jack the Giant Slayer
Elmont
2013
Trainspotting
Renton
1996
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Mr. Green
2010
Staged
Ewan
2020
The Early Show
Self
1999
Robots
Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
2005
T2 Trainspotting
Renton
2017
Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin
2018
Big Fish
Ed Bloom (young)
2003
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Cowboy at Fair
2014
Moulin Rouge!
Christian
2001
The Last Movie Stars
Self
2022
Haywire
Kenneth
2011
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Self
1994
Halston
Halston
2021Halston
Executive Producer
2021
August: Osage County
Bill Fordham
2013
Stay
Sam Foster
2005
A Gentleman in Moscow
Count Alexander Rostov
2024A Gentleman in Moscow
Executive Producer
2024
Down with Love
Catcher Block
2003
The Ghost Writer
The Ghost
2010
Our Kind of Traitor
Perry Makepeace
2016
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi / Executive Producer
2022
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Self (footage)
2025
Mortdecai
Inspector Alistair Martland
2015
This Morning
Self
1988
Jane Got a Gun
John Bishop
2015
American Pastoral
Swede Levov
2016American Pastoral
Director
2016
Miss Potter
Norman Warne
2006
British Film Forever
2007
Perfect Sense
Michael
2011
Soccer Aid
2006
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Bob Wilton
2009
Long Way Home
Self
2025Long Way Home
Executive Producer
2025Long Way Home
Creator
2025
Long Way Up
Self
2020Long Way Up
Executive Producer
2020Long Way Up
Creator
2020
Raymond & Ray
Raymond
2022
A Life Less Ordinary
Robert Lewis
1997
Valiant
Valiant (voice)
2005
Doll & Em
Sleazy Ewan McGregor
2014Doll & Em
Ewan
2014
Shallow Grave
Alex Law
1994
Nightwatch
Martin Bells
1997
Karaoke
Young Man
1996
Long Way Round
Self
2004Long Way Round
Executive Producer
2004Long Way Round
Creator
2004
Young Adam
Joe Taylor
2003
Elle Style Awards
Self - Winner
1997
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Dr. Alfred Jones
2012
Son of a Gun
Brendan Lynch
2014
Velvet Goldmine
Curt Wild
1998
Last Days in the Desert
Jesus
2016
Deception
Jonathan McQuarry
2008
Cassandra's Dream
Ian Blaine
2007
I Love You Phillip Morris
Phillip Morris
2010
Stormbreaker
Ian Rider
2006
Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
Self
2010
Mother, Couch
David
2024Mother, Couch
Executive Producer
2024
Buenas noches y Buenafuente
Self - Interviewee
2012
Long Way Down
Self
2007Long Way Down
Producer
2007Long Way Down
Executive Producer
2007Long Way Down
Creator
2007
Zoe
Cole
2018
Amelia
Gene Vidal
2009
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
Emma
Frank Churchill
1996
Eye of the Beholder
Stephen Wilson
1999
Miles Ahead
Dave Braden
2016
The Land of Sometimes
The Wish Collector (voice)
2026
Scarlet and Black
Julien Sorel
1993
Lipstick on Your Collar
Private Mick Hopper
1993
Beginners
Oliver Fields
2011
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Billy
2006
Hebrides: Islands on the Edge
Narrator (voice)
2013
Brassed Off
Andy Barrow
1996
The Birthday Cake
Father Kelly
2021
Welcome to Hollywood
Ewan McGregor
2000
Untold UK: Vinnie Jones
Self - (archive footage)
2026
The Pillow Book
Jerome
1995
Within a Minute: The Making of Star Wars Episode III
Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
2005
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
Self
2001
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
Self / Obi-Wan Kenobi
2002
Bleeding Love
Father
2024Bleeding Love
Executive Producer
2024
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
2006
Live 8
Self
2005
Rogue Trader
Nick Leeson
1999
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
Self
2018
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
2001
Muse of Fire
Self
2013
And the Winner Isn't
Self
2017
Little Voice
Billy
1998
Blue Juice
Dean Raymond
1995
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Self
2022
Incendiary
Jasper Black
2008
Humpback Whales
Narrator (voice)
2015
Being Human
Alvarez
1994
Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury
Narrator (voice)
2021
Tube Tales
Director
1999
The Serpent's Kiss
Meneer Chrome
1997
Race to Dakar
Self
2006
Stormborn
2020
A Movie Is Made For Pooh
Self
2018The Spot
The Story of Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
Self
2001
Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart
Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
Nora
James Joyce
2000Nora
Producer
2000
A Cooler Climate
Thanks
2022Gina Carano in Training
2012
Jackboots on Whitehall
Chris (voice)
2010A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011Killing Priscilla
Self
2000
The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid
Narrator (voice)
2006
Speed Is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story
Narrator (voice)
2022
Spooks & Creeps
Stroller ("Desserts")
2004
The New Ten Commandments
Self (archive footage)
2008
Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook
Self
2020
Off the Rails: The Making of “Trainspotting”
2023
Wild Ways of the Vikings
Narrator (voice)
2019
Memories of "Trainspotting"
Self
2008
Red Point
Brown
2017
Fastest
Narrator (voice)
2011
Faster
Narrator (voice)
2003
Doggin' Around
Tom Clayton
1994
Teen Choice Awards
Self
1999
Legacy: A Personal History of Barry Sheene
Narrator (voice)
2007
Now You See It
Voiceover (voice)
2017
The Dark Fantastic
Self
2025
Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
Narrator
2019
Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission
Self
2012
The Battle of Britain
Self
2010WAMEGO: Addendum
2020
Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
Self
2001
The Polar Bears of Churchill with Ewan McGregor
Self
2001
Family Style
Jimmie
1993
Faster & Faster
Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
Ice Bear
2014
The Unauthorized Star Wars Story
Self
1999
Solid Geometry
Phil
2002The Cow
Charlie Granger
Troy's Story
Narrator (voice)
2005
Anno Domini
The Stranger
2000
The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car
Self
2016
Desserts
Stroller
2000Teenage Wildlife
Narrator (voice)
2011
Bomber Boys
Self
2012
Charge
Narrator (voice)
2011Happy M’Gee
Happy
2000
Salt Bike: A Year with the Baron
Narrator
2017