Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor, OBE is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a leading role in the Channelseries Lipstick on Your Collar. He is best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting , the young Jedi ObiWan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy , poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge , and Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedydrama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen .

McGregor was born in Perth, Scotland and brought up in Crieff. His mother, Carol Diane , is a retired teacher of Crieff High School and latterly deputy head teacher of Kingspark School in Dundee. His father, James Charles Stewart Jim McGregor, is a retired physical education teacher and careers master of Morrisons Academy, Crieff. He has an older brother, Colin , who is a former Tornado GR4 pilot in the Royal Air Force. He is the nephew of actor Denis Lawson and actress Sheila Gish, and the stepcousin of actress Lou Gish on his mothers side of the family. McGregor attended the independent Morrisons Academy in Crieff. After leaving school, at the age of 16, he worked as a stagehand at Perth Repertory Theatre and studied a foundation course in drama at Kirkcaldy College of Technology, before moving to London to study drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama when he wasyears old.

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