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 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