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
Middlesex (novel) made the best-selling fiction list and kept its position for five weeks. In June 2007, the novel ranked seventh on "USA Today"s Best-Selling Books list. In the same month, after Eugenides appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to discuss the novel, "Middlesex" placed second on "The New York Times" best-selling paperback fiction list. The Pulitzer award nearly propelled "Middlesex" to "The New York Times" Best Seller list, which in 2003 published only the top 15 bestsellers; in the week after "Middlesex" was announced the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the novel placed 17th on the "expanded list". In 2007, 1.3