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Ewan McGregor Biography
Mar 31, 1971Birth Place:
Perth, Scotland, UK
Biography
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Ewan McGregor - Biography
Who is Ewan McGregor?
"One minute I was lying on the floor with a syringe in my arm, then I got married, then I was standing in this trailer with a wig and a top hat and leather gloves on," says actor Ewan McGregor describing his hectic film schedule. The getting married bit, of course, took place in real life rather than on the silver screen.
A Scot and enthusiastic patriot, Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971, in the quiet market town of Crieff, Perthshire. Fascinated by acting, as a child he worshipped his uncle actor and director Denis Lawson, perhaps best known as the multi-talented hotel owner in Local Hero who often popped up from London to visit the McGregor household. With acting in his blood, Ewan's decision to leave school at 16 to join Perth Repertory Theatre was wholeheartedly supported by his parents.
His Career
At 18, the rising star was accepted into London's prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama and soon established himself as a young prodigy, going straight into Dennis Potter's Channel 4 TV series Lipstick On Your Collar.
Ewan's first notable film role was that of cynical hack Alex Law in the low-budget but critically acclaimed thriller Shallow Grave. The film marked t
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Ewan McGregor
The handsome actor and his new wave of fantastic films…
Fulfilling a role in real life as fabulous as those he plays on screen, Ewan McGregor is a world-famous actor and ex-bon vivant who has learnt when to stop in order to start again. His roles in Trainspotting and Moulin Rouge bought him respect, while the Star Wars trilogy made McGregor Hollywood-level famous. In his films he has appeared as various characters, including Christian, Andy, Renton and Obi-Wan. He will soon appear as Phillip, Bob and Gene.
From Fantastic Man n° 10 — 2009
Text by PAUL FLYNN
Photography by ALASDAIR McLELLAN
Styling by OLIVIER RIZZO
The day before we meet, Ewan McGregor had taken his wife and three daughters for a jolly day out at Wimbledon. The British tennis tournament was reaching its climactic stages under an unusually scorching London summer sky. Mistakenly, I assume his visit to the tennis happening to be in loosely patriotic support of his fellow Scot, Andy Murray, playing on centre-court. But McGregor is not an overtly Scottish Scottish-person, despite the fact that some of his Hollywood chums refer to him directly as “The Scotsman”. (He says he couldn’t, for instance, identify the Scottish Parliament building if he were shown a picture of it