Ewan McGregor Collar" (1993). Not long afterwards, he starred in the BBC adaptation of "Scarlet and Black" (also 1993) with a young Rachel Weisz, and made his film debut in Bill Forsyth's "Being Human" (1994). For his role in the thriller "Shallow Grave" (also 1994), he won an Empire Award. The film was his first collaboration with director Danny Boyle. His international breakthrough followed with the role of heroin addict Mark Renton in Boyle's "Trainspotting" (1996), an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name. McGregor played the male romantic lead role in the British film "Little Voice" (1998). He was
Ewan McGregor and Julia Roberts in "", which was based on Tracy Letts's Pulitzer Prize-winning . McGregor starred in the action comedy film "Mortdecai" (2015), alongside Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany. Robbie Collin of "The Daily Telegraph" felt the film was "psychotically unfunny". He made his directorial debut with "American Pastoral" (2016), in which he also starred. In 2017, he reprised his role as Mark Renton in "T2 Trainspotting". McGregor played Lumiere in the live action adaptation of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", directed by Bill Condon with an ensemble cast featuring Emma Watson in a leading role alongside Dan Stevens, Luke