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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.
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.