Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor play the title roles.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn ( right ) and Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi, as portrayed by Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ), Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ) discovers nine year old Anakin Skywalker ( Jake Lloyd ), whom he believes to be the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy who is destined to bring balance to the Force ; the boy is eventually paired with Qui-Gon's apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), who promises to train him.

The 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats stars Ewan McGregor as a reporter named Bob Wilton who follows a former soldier ( George Clooney ) who claimed to be a " Jedi warrior ", a nickname for psychic spies in the US military.

* 1971 – Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor

After his departure, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum, Alexander Skarsgård, Ewan McGregor, Robert Pattinson, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Michael Fassbender, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Kinnaman, Russell Crowe, Chris Pine, Ryan Reynolds, and Jon Hamm were considered for the lead role.

Ewan McGregor

** Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor

* Satine played by Nicole Kidman, an actress / courtesan who falls in love with a penniless poet / writer played by Ewan McGregor, in the movie Moulin Rouge !.

( 2001 ), directed by Baz Luhrmann, with Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, and Richard Roxburgh

Qui-Gon and his padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), persuade Jar Jar's tribe to release him to their custody as a guide.

Coincidentally, Lawson is the maternal uncle of Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy.

Boba helps the bounty hunter escape from Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), but later witnesses Jango's decapitation by Mace Windu ( Samuel L. Jackson ).

Also making fleeting appearances were Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen and Liza Tarbuck.

His early novel Young Adam was adapted into a film starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton in 2003 after several years of wrangling over finance.

* Ewan McGregor

He is portrayed in the original trilogy by Alec Guinness and in the prequel trilogy by Ewan McGregor, and is voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie and television series.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ), set 32 years before A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi, now played by Ewan McGregor, is seen as a young Jedi Padawan, in which role he accompanies his master Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ) in negotiations with the Trade Federation, who are blockading the planet Naboo.

Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

Magadan was a focal point of the Long Way Round motorcycle journey made by Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman and their team in 2004.

Dooku captures Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ) on Geonosis and informs Kenobi that he is attempting to save the Republic from the influence of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious.

Ewan McGregor, who portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy, said in an interview, " As soon as R2-D2 comes on the set, everyone goes a bit silly.

After a failed attempt to kill the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ) and Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ), Gunray meets with Naboo's Queen, Padmé Amidala ( Natalie Portman ), and feigns ignorance.

** Ewan MacColl ( songwriter ) for " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " performed by Roberta Flack

" The Three Ravens " or " Twa Corbies " have been performed and recorded by artists such as Heather Alexander, Annwn, A Chorus of Two, Bishi, Boiled in Lead, Scott Boswell, Clam Chowder, The Corries, Alfred Deller, The Duplets, Frances Faye, Fiddler's Dram, Ray & Archie Fisher, John Fleagle and Ewan MacColl, John Harle, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bert Jansch, Joel Cohen, Kalin Sivov, Andrew King, Marie Little, Malinky, Old Blind Dogs, Omnia, Kate Price, Schelmish, Sol Invictus, Sonne Hagal, Sequester, Steeleye Span, Andreas Scholl, Hamish Imlach, Richard Thompson, Ariella Uliano, Diana Obscura, Terre di mezzo, Kenneth McKellar, Custer LaRue and the Baltimore Consort, Merry Wives of Windsor, Sportive Tricks, countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Astral Weeks.

He performed Elton John's Your Song with Ewan McGregor.

Paul Simon learned the song in London in 1965 from Martin Carthy, who had picked up the tune from the songbook by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.

The region not only produced one of the major figures of the revival in Ewan MacColl but also a local champion in Harry Boardman, who from 1965 onwards probably did more than anyone to popularise and record the industrial folk song of the region, in several albums and books.

Industrial folk songs were largely ignored by early folk song collectors, but gained attention in the second folk revival in the twentieth century, being noted and recorded by figures such as George Korson, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie in the USA and A. L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger in Britain.

The film features a romantic montage ( views of Garver and Tobie peacefully roaming on the sea-side and lying down in the woods ), backed by Roberta Flack's recording of " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ", an Ewan MacColl torch song.

* Ewan MacColl wrote the song " The Ballad of Tim Evans " ( also known as " Go Down You Murderer ") about the case.

Poet and folk singer Ewan MacColl celebrated these events in his song " The Manchester Rambler ", and it is also the subject of the song " You Can ( Mass Trespass, 1932 )" on Chumbawamba's 2005 album A Singsong and a Scrap.

* " Green Island " ( also known as The Island ), a song by Ewan MacColl on his album Naming of Names also recorded by Christy Moore on his album Smoke and Strong Whiskey

The other major figure of the second British folk revival, Ewan MacColl also played a significant part in popularising British Industrial folk song, making Shuttle and Cage a 10 " LP with Peggy Seeger for Topic Records in 1958 and alone an LP for Stinson in 1963 called British Industrial Folk Songs.

* Ewan MacColl has recorded the song numerous times.

" Dirty Old Town " is a song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by The Dubliners and has been recorded by many others since.

The song was written in reference to Salford, Greater Manchester, England, the place where Ewan MacColl was born and brought up.

It was originally composed for an interlude to cover an awkward scene change in Ewan MacColl's Salford-set, 1949 play Landscape with Chimneys, but with the growing popularity of folk music the song became a standard.

* The Lou Reed version of the song is played in the 1998 movie Velvet Goldmine, with Ewan McGregor lip-synching the backing vocals.

During this time, Palmer also recorded " Down With Love ", a duet with Canadian pop star Michael Bublé that was the title song for a film starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor.

He recorded and produced Dead Meadow's album Got Live if You Want It, and has recorded a cover of Ewan MacColl's song ' Dirty Old Town ' with Lorraine Leckie on her 2008 album Four Cold Angels.

Ewan MacColl's song Ivor uses the tune to wryly mock the supposedly favourable treatment given to Ivor Novello in prison during World War II.

* " Come What May " ( 2001 song ), a song popularized by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, from the movie Moulin Rouge!