Ewan McGregor
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: Crieff, 31 March 2020
We also recieved a rather strange email claiming Ewan owed some money from a hotel he has stayed in whilst on his world tour...see below
"I am a working in Hotel pod zamkom in Bojnice where Ewan McGregor stayed one day on his worlk tour. Ewerithyng was OK till he left and did not pay for his room. He staied in our hotel one day with his 2 friends on their motorcicles. He did not paied his bill and hotel want me to pay it. If you can find him, let him know that 7 000,-Sk is maybe not too much for star and famos person as him but I have to work all month to pay his accomodation + restaurant bills. He was very nice and I believe he just forgot to pay, Please if he can send the maney back so my family do not pay. Thank you for help. If you will be need any detailed information just let me know on this email adress or my home adress. i was in the work the day they were leaving. He will be remembering me we spoke about castel how easy they get in, where they go............"
Any enquiries to this email send to me, and I will pass on.
mandy@myvillage.co.uk
Ewan’s big journey - Jan 04
Ewan McGregor will be taking to the road in April, by setting off on a 15 week, 20,000-mile tour round the world on a motorbike.
He will be traveling with best pal Charley Boorman (son of the director John), and they are going to take a hand held camera to film their ’adventure of a lifetime’. Ewan has spent most of the winter testing out various bikes and plotting their trip - sounds like a boys own adventure to me!
He said ’I’m happy as Larry. I love motorcycles. You’re on your own and you make your own decisions - unlike films, where everything’s decided for you. I love the long journeys - they represent independence for me. Bikes are my passion. From the moment I first tried one on a racetrack, something happened. It’s so exhilarating; it makes me feel more alive."
Ewan’s latest film Big Fish has been nominated for seven BAFTA’s.
Ewan’s a pigeon! - 05/12/03
Ewan McGregor will be the voice of Valient the pigeon in a new British animation.
Valient is the story of a British wood pigeon that becomes a RAF hero during World War II. This must be one of the only stories about World War One or Two that Hollywood haven’t hijacked to quickly change it into the story of ’Buddy The Golden Eagle’ or something; I bet Disney are kicking themselves.
Joining Ewan will be our fave Ricky Gervais, Rupert Everett and John Hurt, with Sir Ben Kingsley lending his voice to the baddie, a feared German Falcon. The ?27 million computer-animated feature is due for release next year.
Ewan’s bits for the chop? - 19/09/03
Ewan McGregor fears that his full frontal nude scene in his latest film may be too much for the shy and retiring U.S censors.
Ewan said ’They are cutting me off in America. You can blow thousands of people’s heads off with a semi-automatic machine gun but you can’t show a picture of my willy.’
The film is called Young Adam, where Ewan plays a ruthless, bed-hopping young drifter. The film is described as being ’shockingly dark and erotic’ including one scene where he smothers co-star Emily Mortimer in an alluring mix of custard and ketchup. Now I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound particularly erotic to me.
Down under With Love - 07/08/03
Ewan McGregor and his lovely wife were in Sydney at the premier of Ewan’s new movie Down with Love.
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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