McGregor was born in the Perth Royal Infirmary, and was brought up in the nearby small town of Crieff in Scotland and went to Morrisons Academy. While his mother, Carol Diane is a teacher and school administrator, his father, James Charles Stuart McGregor, happens to be a physical education teacher. From his early childhood for his connection to the presence of actors and actreses among his in-laws. To becom a successful actor McGregor attended the reputed Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1988 for the study of drama. In addition, six months before his graduation, he bagged a leading role in the six-part BBC series Lipstick on Your Collar of Dennis Potter and has been working steadily ever since. McGregor made his feature film debut in year 1993 in Being Human of Bill Forsyth. It is to be noted that in the following year, he earned widespread praise and won an Empire Award for his performance in the thriller Shallow Grave, that marked his first collaboration with director Danny Boyle. The highly significant international breakthrough of McGregor soon followed with the role ofa heroine addicted person ark Renton in Boyle's film version of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting in the year 1996. There have been several movies where McGregor has been featured as the male romantic lead in the Hollywood films such as Moulin Rouge! and also Down With Love. The British film Little Voice made at the same time also earned good repuation for him. He received excellent reviews for his performance as an amoral drifter mixed up in murder in the British film Young Adam in 2003,
Where he co-starred the acclaimed British actress Tilda Swinton. Meanwhile, while he was appearing in Star War films, he was found to continue the family tradition of sorts, since his uncle Dennis Lawson, had played and magnificiently in the original Star Wars trilogy¸in the role of Wedge Antilles. In this work, it should be remembere, that McGregor himself has stated that the Star Wars films happened to be the worst work done by him and for that he regrets being in the films. Though in the later times he clarified thoroughly about his apparent dislike of working on the Star Wars films. The main reason was that most of the scenes were shot by the utilization of green rooms and background for CGI, instead of with actors and live sets.

But is McGregor erotic? Well, thre is a strong debate over this. But how can ione forget that McGregor is one of the most significant male actors to be engaged in full frontal nudity, in a repeated manner in several of hisfilms. They include, Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine , The Pillow Book and Young Adam. Apart from this he also acted in the role of gay or bisexual characters, in films, such as The Pillow Book of Peter Greenaway in 1996 and Velvet Goldmine of Torld Haynes in the year 1998. Again, in the year 2005 he was founded to lend his voice to two successful animated features. On of this is the Rodney Copperbottm, where he was found to lend his voice for the lovable robot. The same animation also feturedthe voices of Halle Berry and Robin Williams. The next one where he voiced the lead character was Valiant of Gary Chapman along with Jim Broadbent and John Clesse. McGregor is also a known face in the realm of theatre, for which once he was also nominated for an Laurence Oliver Award, for the Best Actor in a Musical. It has been reported that McGregor is next set to appear opposite Colin Farrell in Cassandra's Dream and also will act with Daniel Craig in the upcoming film adaptation of Glen Duncan's novel, I, Lucifer, directed by Dan Harris.