Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor was born in Scotland and has starred in various hit movies both in the UK and worldwide. His earlier films such as Trainspotting and Shallow Grave (For which he won an Empire Award) have now become cult classics and he is now classed as one of the biggest celebrities in Hollywood, with producers queuing up to get him to star in their movies.

He is married to a French production designer named Eve Mavrakis and the couple have two biological children together called Clara and Esther and Jamiyan a Mongolian girl whom they adopted in 2006. Ewan is very well known for being extremely private about his home life, family and children and makes every effort to ensure that they are never caught on camera and that the family home is not filmed as he is a strong believer that these things should be kept private as much as possible.

As well as his huge movie career alongside big names such as Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson Ewan also has a great passion for motorbikes, and riding cross country. This lead to the making of a UK TV series called 'The long way round' in which Ewan and his friend Charley Boorman embarked on a motorcycle trek spanning 22,345 miles followed by a camera crew to capture the experience. This proved to be hugely popular and later spawned a follow up series titled 'The long way Down' which saw the duo once again get back on their bikes and ride from John o' Groats in Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa and ended in May 2007.

Ewan has very strong ties with The United Nations Children's Fund charity (UNICEF) and is frequently promoting the charity and its worthwhile causes whenever he can. He has quit drinking for approximately 7 years and is very much a family man at heart.

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