From sci-fi epics to family films to musical comedies, Ewan McGregor seems capable of doing it all in a career that has encompassed celebrated work on the stage, on screen and in television.
In a career that has lasted more than two decades, McGregor is no stranger in the awards world. He won a Golden Globe for his work in the TV series of “Fargo” and earned two nominations for his film work in “Moulin Rouge!” and “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.” For television, he received three Primetime Emmy Award noms for acting in “Fargo” and “ER,” as well as a nomination for narrating the documentary “Highlands: Scotland’s Wild Heart.” And for film, he has garnered three Screen Actors Guild ensemble nominations for his work in “Little Voice,” “Moulin Rouge!” and “August: Osage County.”
Let’s raise a glass to McGregor and celebrate by counting down and ranking his 13 best screen performances.
In a career that has lasted more than two decades, McGregor is no stranger in the awards world. He won a Golden Globe for his work in the TV series of “Fargo” and earned two nominations for his film work in “Moulin Rouge!” and “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.” For television, he received three Primetime Emmy Award noms for acting in “Fargo” and “ER,” as well as a nomination for narrating the documentary “Highlands: Scotland’s Wild Heart.” And for film, he has garnered three Screen Actors Guild ensemble nominations for his work in “Little Voice,” “Moulin Rouge!” and “August: Osage County.”
Let’s raise a glass to McGregor and celebrate by counting down and ranking his 13 best screen performances.
- 3/23/2024
- by Tom O'Brien, Misty Holland and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Intimacy coordinators, basically delicate choreographers for sex scenes, are not new to Hollywood productions. But this may be a first.
For the Paramount+ with Showtime limited series “A Gentleman in Moscow,” in which Ewan McGregor plays a Russian aristocrat banished to a bleak hotel room during the early days of the Soviet Union, the actor told Britain’s Radio Times that the production still used an intimacy coordinator for one romantic sequence, even though his scene partner was Mary Elizabeth Winstead, his wife of two years.
“We did have an intimacy coordinator!” McGregor said, when it was suggested he probably didn’t need one. “It’s still necessary, because it’s also about the crew, and it’s odd to be naked in front of people, it’s odd to be intimate in front of the camera. If you were doing a dance scene, you’d have a choreographer. It...
For the Paramount+ with Showtime limited series “A Gentleman in Moscow,” in which Ewan McGregor plays a Russian aristocrat banished to a bleak hotel room during the early days of the Soviet Union, the actor told Britain’s Radio Times that the production still used an intimacy coordinator for one romantic sequence, even though his scene partner was Mary Elizabeth Winstead, his wife of two years.
“We did have an intimacy coordinator!” McGregor said, when it was suggested he probably didn’t need one. “It’s still necessary, because it’s also about the crew, and it’s odd to be naked in front of people, it’s odd to be intimate in front of the camera. If you were doing a dance scene, you’d have a choreographer. It...
- 3/20/2024
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
Hello there! Obi-Wan Kenobi himself Ewan McGregor could be poised to make a quick return to the Emmys two years after he won Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor for “Halston.” The Scottish actor will be competing in that same category this year for his titular role in the acclaimed Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
After starring as the bearded Jedi in George Lucas‘ prequel trilogy, McGregor returned to the role for this limited series. In the “Star Wars” timeline, the action takes place between “Revenge of the Sith” and the one that started it all, “A New Hope.” The series opens with a defeated Obi-Wan in hiding and keeping an eye on the young Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. He’s sucked back into the world of heroic Jedi duty when a young Princess Leia is kidnapped. He is tasked with saving her while being pursued by Imperial Inquisitors and his former Padawan Anakin Skywalker,...
After starring as the bearded Jedi in George Lucas‘ prequel trilogy, McGregor returned to the role for this limited series. In the “Star Wars” timeline, the action takes place between “Revenge of the Sith” and the one that started it all, “A New Hope.” The series opens with a defeated Obi-Wan in hiding and keeping an eye on the young Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. He’s sucked back into the world of heroic Jedi duty when a young Princess Leia is kidnapped. He is tasked with saving her while being pursued by Imperial Inquisitors and his former Padawan Anakin Skywalker,...
- 4/25/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
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