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
Christopher Eccleston (2002). Eccleston appeared in a stage role in "Hamlet" in the 2002 production at Leeds's West Yorkshire Playhouse. March–April 2004 saw him return to the venue in a new play, "Electricity". Eccleston has been twice nominated in the Best Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards. His first nomination came in 1997 for "Our Friends in the North", but he lost to Nigel Hawthorne (for "The Fragile Heart"). He was nominated in 2004 for "The Second Coming"; Bill Nighy won for "State of Play". Eccleston won the Best Actor category at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for "Our