Christopher Eccleston in "Let Him Have It" and David Stevens in "Shallow Grave" and for his television performances in "Cracker" and "Hillsborough". His BAFTA-nominated performance as Nicky Hutchinson in the BBC miniseries "Our Friends in the North" (1996) established Eccleston as a household name in the UK; he followed the serial with film roles in "Jude", "A Price Above Rubies", "Elizabeth", "eXistenZ", "Gone in 60 Seconds", "The Invisible Circus", "The Others", "24 Hour Party People" and "28 Days Later" and television roles including the drama series "Clocking Off" and a second BAFTA-nominated performance as Messianic figure Stephen Baxter in the ITV drama
Ewan McGregor Also around this time, McGregor played two roles — one a clone of the other — opposite Scarlett Johansson in Michael Bay's science fiction action thriller film "The Island". He also headlined Marc Forster's 2005 film "Stay" (both 2005), a psychological thriller co-starring Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. He narrated the Fulldome production "Astronaut" (2006), created for the National Space Centre. Around the same time, he also narrated the STV show "JetSet" (also 2006), a six-part series following the lives of trainee pilots and navigators at RAF Lossiemouth as they undergo a gruelling six-month course learning to fly the Tornado