Actor: Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor arrived with Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, the latter making him the face of a British cinema revival, and the performance still holds up as the most charismatic thing in that film.

The Star Wars prequels then occupied a decade of his career, and the work has been substantially reappraised as audiences softened on those films.

Moulin Rouge, Big Fish and Beginners show the range, and he sings in several of them.

He returned to Obi-Wan for a series, has motorcycled around the world twice for documentaries, and works regularly on stage.