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Trainspotting made him famous, Star Wars made him permanent. At 55, Ewan McGregor is back on screens in the sci-fi survival film The End of Oak Street, still openly campaigning for one more turn as Obi-Wan Kenobi.

By · datastats · Updated September 1, 2026
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Ewan Gordon McGregor was born in Perth, Scotland, on March 31, 1971 and raised in Crieff, where his uncle, the actor Denis Lawson, gave him an early template for the job. He left school at 16, trained in London, and by 1996 was playing Mark Renton in Trainspotting, the role that made him a generational lead almost overnight.

Three years later he took on Obi-Wan Kenobi for George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels, a decision that fixed him permanently in the culture whether he wanted it or not. He returned to the character in the Disney+ series in 2022, and in 2026 he has been openly lobbying for another go, pitching ideas to Dave Filoni in interviews. None of it is confirmed.

The wider filmography is more interesting than the two headline roles suggest: Moulin Rouge!, Big Fish, I Love You Phillip Morris, Christopher Robin, Birds of Prey, plus television work that brought him a Golden Globe for Fargo and a Primetime Emmy for Halston in 2021. He was appointed OBE in 2013.

His current release is The End of Oak Street, David Robert Mitchell’s science-fiction survival film, out in the United States on August 14, 2026, in which he stars alongside Anne Hathaway. Alongside that he keeps two long-running side careers going: theatre, with My Master Builder in the West End in 2025 and a Supernova stage adaptation with Alan Cumming planned for 2027, and the Long Way motorcycle series with Charley Boorman, whose next instalment has been filmed for Apple TV+.

He is married to the actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, whom he wed in April 2022 and with whom he has a son born in 2021. He has four daughters from his earlier marriage to Eve Mavrakis. He divides his time between Los Angeles and London. Sources: Warner Bros., Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Wikipedia.

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He splits his time between Los Angeles and St John's Wood in London. He has lived in the United States for much of his adult career and became a naturalised US citizen, while keeping a base in London. He does not publicise specific addresses, and nothing beyond that should be assumed.

He is Scottish, and therefore British. He was born in Perth, Scotland on March 31, 1971, and grew up in Crieff. He has also held United States citizenship since being naturalised in the years after 2016, so in practice he holds both.

He was born on March 31, 1971, making him 55 years old as of September 2026. He was 24 when *Trainspotting* came out in 1996 and 28 when *The Phantom Menace* opened in 1999.

He is generally listed at around 5 ft 10 in (about 1.78 m), with celebrity height trackers placing him a little under that, closer to 1.77 m. There is no officially published figure, so treat it as a widely repeated estimate.

He is married to the American actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead. They married in April 2022 after meeting on the set of *Fargo*, and they have a son born in June 2021. McGregor was previously married to the French production designer Eve Mavrakis from 1995 until their divorce was finalised in 2020.

Five: four daughters from his marriage to Eve Mavrakis, including Clara, Esther and Jamyan, who was adopted from Mongolia in 2006, and a son with Mary Elizabeth Winstead born in June 2021. He has consistently kept his children out of the promotional cycle.

The End of Oak Street, a science-fiction survival film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, released in the United States on August 14, 2026. He stars opposite Anne Hathaway, with Maisy Stella and Christian Convery, in a story about a suburban street torn out of its neighbourhood by a cosmic event. The project spent years in development under the earlier title *Flowervale Street*. Sources: Warner Bros., Deadline.

Nothing is greenlit. He has said repeatedly in 2026 that he wants to return and has pitched ideas to Lucasfilm's Dave Filoni, floating options such as Obi-Wan tracking down Yoda, or a story involving Mary Elizabeth Winstead's *Ahsoka* character. Those are his own suggestions in interviews, not announcements. Until Lucasfilm says otherwise, treat any dated report of a new series as speculation. Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter.

Both. He won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Halston (2021), and a Golden Globe for the second season of Fargo, in which he played twin brothers. He was appointed OBE in 2013 for services to drama and charity.

Long Way is the motorcycle travel series he makes with his friend Charley Boorman, starting with *Long Way Round* in 2004 and continuing through *Long Way Down*, *Long Way Up* and *Long Way Home* in 2025. A further instalment has been filmed for Apple TV+, with no release date announced yet. Sources: Variety.

Yes. He returned to the West End in April 2025 in *My Master Builder*, a version of the Ibsen play. He and Alan Cumming are also attached to a stage adaptation of Supernova, Harry Macqueen's film, scheduled for the summer of 2027 at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland. Sources: Variety.

Two roles, mostly. Mark Renton in Danny Boyle's *Trainspotting* (1996), which made him the face of a British cinema moment, and Obi-Wan Kenobi across the *Star Wars* prequel trilogy (1999 to 2005) and the Disney+ series (2022). In between there is a wide and genuinely strange filmography: *Moulin Rouge!*, *Big Fish*, *Angels & Demons*, *Christopher Robin*, *Birds of Prey*, plus his Emmy-winning turn as Halston.

Yes. He directed American Pastoral (2016), an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel in which he also starred. It was poorly received critically, and he has not directed a feature since, though he has continued producing, including the *Long Way* series.

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