• Name: Ewan McGregor
  
• Birth Name: Ewan Gordon McGregor
  
• Height: 5' 10 1/2"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: Scotish
  
• Birth Date: March 31, 1971
  
• Birth Place: Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, U.K.
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Morrison's Academy in Crieff, Scotland
  
•   : Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland
  
•   : Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London
  
• Husband/Wife: Eve Mouvrakis (French production designer; born on June 22, 1966; met while filming for Kavanagh QC in 1994; married in July 1995)
  
• Father: James McGregor (teacher)
  
• Mother: Carol McGregor (teacher)
  
• Brother: Colin McGregor (Royal Air Force pilot; born in 1969)
  
• Uncle: Denis Lawson (actor; born on September 27, 1947)
  
• Daughter: Esther Rose (born on November 17, 2001) and Clara Mathilde (born in February 1996)
  
• Claim to fame: as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
  

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• "The very real risk that you're about to lose your child is something that takes a lot of getting over."
• "Actually, I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting."
• "Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in."
• "I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible."
• "I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."

• British Independent Film Awards: Entertainment Personality Award (2002)
• Empire Awards: Best British Actor, MOULIN ROUGE! (2002)
• MTV Movie Awards: Best Musical Sequence, MOULIN ROUGE! (2002) - shared with Nicole Kidman
• London Critics Circle Film Awards: British Actor of the Year, MOULIN ROUGE! (2002)
• Golden Satellite Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical, MOULIN ROUGE! (2002)
• European Film Awards: Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema, MOULIN ROUGE! (2001)
• Hollywood Film Festival: Actor of the Year (2001)
• Empire Awards: Best British Actor, A LIFE LESS ORDINARY (1998)
• Empire Awards: Best British Actor, TRAINSPOTTING (1997)
• London Critics Circle Film Awards: British Actor of the Year, TRAINSPOTTING (1997)
• Empire Awards: Best British Actor, SHALLOW GRAVE (1996)

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