Ewan McGregor
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: Crieff, 31 March 2020
The pair, who previously played a sparring couple, are appearing together in Miss Potter, which had its world premiere last night. (see photos)
Ewan, who plays publisher Norman Warne said: "We did a film together called Down With Love and I had a great time working on that so it was nice to work with her again.
"Also I thought the script was divine."
The film is inspired by the life of Beatrix Potter, the most successful classic children’s author of all times.
The actor, who was accompanied by his wife Eve to the premiere in London, said his young children were fans of the stories.
"I think there’s not many houses in the country that don’t have a Beatrix Potter book or two lying around - people with kids anyway," he said.
He said the family’s favourite character was Peter Rabbit.
"Peter Rabbit’s great - I have got the whole Mr McGregor thing going on."
Ewan’s a big turn-off - Aug 05
A double blow for Ewan McGregor this month. First, his latest film, The Island, is given the big thumbs down by both critics and moviegoers on both sides of the Atlantic, and now co-star Scarlett Johansson has gone and revealed in an interview that locking lips with McGregor was "like kissing a school boy."
And in a bizarre twist the movie’s producers are blaming the starring couple for the film’s poor box office, branding the pair "superstars of the future, not superstars of the present." Ouch.
By Cher Tippetts
Ewan McGregor is a bad kisser - Aug 05
Scarlett Johansson says Ewan McGregor is a bad kisser.
The stunning Hollywood actress claims the Scottish movie heartthrob kissed her like a teenager when they had to lock lips in new film ’The Island’. She revealed: "He kissed me like a 16-year-old schoolboy." However, Scarlett - who was recently rumoured to be rekindling her romance with handsome actor Jared Leto - admits she did enjoy her love scenes with Ewan. She said recently: "I get paid to make out with Ewan McGregor and roll around in bed all day. It’s a hard job but somebody has to do it." Last month, the ’Lost in Translation’ beauty revealed how Ewan turned into a real-life action hero on the set of ’The Island’.
The star of ’Black Hawk Down’ and ’Star Wars’ hung on to the sexy 20-year-old as she dangled from a 30ft prop while filming the upcoming movie - despite Scarlett’s safety harness stopping her from falling. Scarlett said at the time: "He was like, ’I can’t let go. It’s my human instinct. You’re going to fall.’ "It was very sweet of him."
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He started out at the local Morrison Academy and at the age of sixteen made his way down to the big smoke to train at the Guildhall School. Ewan got an early break thanks to Dennis Potter, who cast him in the critically acclaimed TV show Lipstick on Your Collar in 1993, just before his graduation. The small role got Ewan noticed and soon after leaving Guildhall he was cast in Bill Forsyth’s Being Human.
Ewan wasn’t about to hang around making mediocre movies though. In 1994 he was cast as Alex, one of three lead characters in Danny Boyle’s excellent Shallow Grave, which won a Bafta for Best British Film. His breakthrough came two years later, again thanks to Danny Boyle. Ewan was cast as the lead character, heroin addict Mark Renton, in cult classic Trainspotting. The controversial movie became the seminal nineties film, loved by young people all over Britain while Ewan became British cinema’s hottest property, the film world’s answer to Damon Albarn in a Brit-pop obsessed country.
From then on Ewan made sure he didn’t become stereotyped, taking parts in everything from arty intelligent projects like Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book (which helped to cement the reputation of a certain of Ewan’s body parts as a star as...ahem, big as its owner) to costume dramas - Jane Austen’s Emma - to gritty northern dramas such as the critically acclaimed Brassed Off.
By 1997’s A Life Less Ordinary Ewan was a global superstar and was the obvious choice for a role in then biggest movie franchise in history. Ewan’s role as Obi Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels may not have allowed him to flex his acting muscles but it did send him stratospheric, and while he kept on with the quirky projects such as Big Fish and Moulin Rouge! he was also able to command huge salaries for each appearance and make action blockbusters such as The Island and Stormbreaker as well as costume dramas such as Miss Potter. He is set to appear in Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream and as the devil in I, Lucifer in 2007.
The huge fame that came with these movies also allowed Ewan to branch out with his own projects - notably The Long Way Round, a TV show which saw Ewan and pal Charley Boorman attempt a motorcycle trip from London to New York. As well as plenty of time in front of the camera Ewan, along with Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee and Jonny Lee Miller, keeps his hand in behind the lens with Natural Nylon a production company owned by the Brit Pack A list.
updated January 2007
Ewan has been married to make up artist Eve Mavrakis since 1995. They met on the set of TV drama Kavanagh QC and now have two daughters Clara Mathilde and Esther Rose. In April 2006 the couple also adopted a four year old girl from Mongolia.
October 2007