Ewan McGregor Biography

Biography

Jonny Lee Miller, and Sadie Frost. In the following year, he created sensation by joining the cast of "Moulin Rouge!" opposite Nicole Kidman. His brilliant performance as Christian led him to earn a nomination of Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy at the 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Ewan went on to maintain his acting career; this time enacted a member of U.S. Special Forces in Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down" (2001). Following this, he was about to film "Nautica" alongside Heath Ledger. Nevertheless, the project was cancelled due to the tragic death of the proposed director, Ted Demme. In the meantime, he and Eva welcomed their second daughter, Esther Rose, on November 17. After his re-appearance as Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" (2002), Ewan was busily involved in three films by 2003, namely "Down with Love", "Young Adam" and "Big Fish." He then underwent a marathon motorcycle trip around the world with Charley Boorman in 2004. This journey was later compressed into a mini TV series and a book entitled "Long Way Round."

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in 2005, Ewan unexpectedly admitted that he in fact was depressed during the production of Episode I and began to drink heavily. Fortunately, he managed to cease the awful habit. During this year, he also contributed his voice to the animated "Robots" and "Valiant" while joining the cast of "Stay" and "The Island" which turned out well by garnering nearly $163 million worldwide. Coming back to the stage through a new production of "Guys and Dolls" alongside Jane Krakowski at Piccadilly Theatre in London, he kept staying busy throughout the following year, starring in "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker", "Miss Potter", and a U.K. feature entitled "Scenes of a Sexual Nature."

By the next two years, Ewan wonderfully has added at least eight more high-profile projects in his big screen resume with two of them namely "Cassandra's Dream" and "The Tourist" being slated for 2007 releases. Apart from his voice-acting stint in animated comedy "Jackboots on Whitehall" alongside Alan Cumming and Rosamund Pike, the rest five were "Incendiary", "Number Thirteen", "Frankyln", "I, Lucifer", and "The Great Pretender", all set to come up in 2008.

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