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 portrayed the younger Edward Bloom in the critically acclaimed film "Big Fish" (2003) alongside Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman and Billy Crudup. In the same period, he also received critical acclaim for his portrayal of an amoral drifter mixed up with murder in the drama "Young Adam" (also 2003), which co-starred Tilda Swinton. McGregor voiced two successful animated features; he played the robot Rodney Copperbottom in "Robots", which also featured the voices of Halle Berry and Robin Williams, and he voiced the lead character in Gary Chapman's "Valiant" (both 2005), alongside Jim Broadbent, John Cleese and Ricky Gervais.