Actor, singer, and adventurer Ewan McGregor celebrates a birthday on March 31st. McGregor was born in Scotland in 1971, to teacher parents that encouraged him to pursue his acting dreams. After attending London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama for three years, he left right before graduating to take a role in a TV miniseries called Lipstick on Your Collar. McGregor has had a successful acting career in both mainstream and independent films. His first notable performance came in the 1994 film directed by Danny Boyle called Shallow Grave. Boyle directed McGregor again in the gritty film Trainspotting based on the novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. Star Wars fans were pleased with his portrayal of young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episodes I, II, and III.
Musical fans discovered McGregor could sing when he appeared along side Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!. In 2004 he and friend Charley Boorman traveled around the world on motorbikes. Documentary footage of their journey was made into a TV series called Long Way Round, then a follow-up series called Long Way Down. McGregor will appear later this year in the film adaptation of Angels & Demons.
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Big Fish
By Burton, Tim
2004/04 - Columbia Tri-Star
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William Bloom has never really known his father, Edward, beyond the fantastic tales told to him growing up. During the last days of Edwards life, William again listens to these tales and attepts to determine fact from fiction, as a last chance to understand his father.
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Moulin Rouge
By Luhrmann, Baz
Kidman, Nicole
McGregor, Ewan
2008/09 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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The story follows a poet (McGregor) who defies his father by moving toMonmarte, France, the 19th century equivalent of Andy Warhol's Factory.He falls into the world of Toulouse-Lautrec (Leguizamo) and hisentourage, and is drafted to write a nightclub spectacular. In this seedworld of sex, drugs and electricity, he begins a passionate butultimately doomed love affair with the club's highest paid star andcourtesan (Kidman).
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The Island
By Bay, Michael McGregor
Bay, Michael McGregor
McGregor, Ewan Bean
2007/08 - Paramount Home Video
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Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the The Island, reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose only purpose is to provide spare parts for their original human counterparts. Realizing it is only a matter of time before he is harvested, Lincoln makes a daring escape with a fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Pursued by the forces of the institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers.
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Cassandra's Dream
By Allen, Woody
McGregor, Ewan
Farrell, Colin
2008/09 - Genius Products
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In contemporary London, two brothers are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful actress he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled into a sinister situation with intense and unfortunate results.
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Deception
By Langenegger, Marcel
McGregor, Ewan
Jackman, Hugh
2008/09 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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When a lawyer friend introduces him to a secretive sex club known as the List, unassuming accountant thinks he's hit the big time. But when he becomes entangled with the disappearance of a woman from the List, he falls into jeopardy himself.
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Miss Potter
By Noonan, Chirs
2007/06 - Weinstein Company
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Blending lush animation sequences with live-action drama, director Chris Noonan constructs this biopic about the personal life of beloved children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter.
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Stay
By Forster, Marc
McGregor, Ewan
Watts, Naomi
2008/09 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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A dedicated New York psychiatrist Sam Foster urgently attempts to stop a secretive and unusual young patient he inherited, Henry Lethem, from carrying out a planned suicide on the eve of his 21st birthday. But Sam's investigation of Henry has reality-shattering effects on the psychiatrist. As Sam is drawn deeper into the web of Henry's life--and then into the labyrinth of his subconscious--it puts stress on Sam's relationship with his artist girlfriend and former patient Lila. But soon Sam's own tightly-held grip on the rational world begins to melt away. Faced with increasingly surreal encounters and a Manhattan transformed into a wildly shifting dreamscape, Sam can no longer figure out what is true and what is happening only in his head, nor where he begins and Henry ends.
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Velvet Goldmine
By Haynes, Todd
Various Artists
MacGregor, Ewen
2005/03 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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Set in London's Glam Rock era, "Velvet Goldmine" is a visual, musical feast. A journalist is assigned the task of discovering the whereabouts of Glam Rock star Brian Slade on the 10th anniversary of his staged death. But he's reluctant to uncover the past that is so closely tied with his struggle to come to grips with his sexuality.
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