Esther Rose McGregor: How Ewan McGregor’s Daughter Is Building a Career Far Beyond Her Famous Family

Harry Martin September 9, 2026

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Esther Rose McGregor, actress and daughter of Ewan McGregor, in a cinematic outdoor portrait — Esther Rose McGregor, daughter of actor Ewan McGregor, has developed her own career across film, television and other creative fields.

From Star Wars connections to tattoo artistry and major screen roles, Esther Rose McGregor is increasingly being known for the work she is creating herself.

Ewan McGregor’s children have grown up under an unusual level of public attention. Their father is one of Britain’s best-known actors, famous for Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge!, Star Wars, Fargo and Obi-Wan Kenobi. But Esther Rose McGregor is now attracting attention for a reason that has less to do with her surname and more to do with the career she is building.

The timing matters. In 2024 and 2025, Esther moved into increasingly prominent film and television work, including Babygirl, The Room Next Door and Prime Video’s We Were Liars. In a 2025 interview with ELLE, she described acting as the one creative pursuit she now wants to make central to her career.

Bottom line: Esther Rose McGregor is Ewan McGregor and Eve Mavrakis’s daughter and a London-born actress, model, musician and tattoo artist. She began appearing professionally on screen in the late 2010s and has since taken roles in Obi-Wan Kenobi, High School, The Room Next Door, Babygirl and We Were Liars, increasingly establishing an identity separate from her father.Jamyan McGregor

Esther Rose McGregor at a glance

Full name: Esther Rose McGregor
Born: October 22, 2001, according to IMDb and multiple biographical sources
Birthplace: London, England
Father: Ewan McGregor
Mother: Eve Mavrakis
Siblings: Clara McGregor, Jamyan McGregor, Anouk McGregor and half-brother Laurie McGregor
Known for: Obi-Wan Kenobi, High School, The Room Next Door, Babygirl and We Were Liars
Other creative work: Modeling, music and tattoo artistry
Current professional focus: Acting

The McGregor family connection explains the name — not the career

Esther was born in London to Ewan McGregor and production designer Eve Mavrakis. Her childhood was shaped by an international film family, with her father’s acting career and her mother’s work in production design providing an unusually creative environment.

She is one of four daughters from McGregor’s marriage to Mavrakis. Their children are Clara, Esther, Jamyan and Anouk. McGregor later had a son, Laurie, with actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Laurie was born in 2021, making Esther one of his four older half-siblings.

The family became particularly visible again in September 2024, when Ewan McGregor received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Clara, Jamyan, Anouk and Laurie attended the ceremony alongside McGregor and Winstead. Esther was absent because she was filming We Were Liars.

That detail is revealing: while the McGregor family name can open the door to attention, Esther’s professional schedule increasingly exists independently of her father’s public appearances.

Her early creative life was much bigger than acting

Before establishing herself primarily as an actress, Esther experimented with several artistic disciplines.

She has worked as a model, musician and tattoo artist, alongside acting. Her creative interests were not simply a publicity exercise; they became part of how she understood herself as an artist.

In New York, she co-founded the queer-friendly tattoo studio Pink Ether while studying at New York University. Vanity Fair reported that she eventually stepped back from the tattoo business and other creative pursuits as acting became increasingly demanding.

Her relationship with tattooing also crossed into her acting career. In a 2025 interview with ELLE, Esther explained that she still tattoos when she is home, even after shifting her professional attention toward film and television.

This history makes her career unusual among celebrity offspring. Acting was not the only artistic path available to her, nor was it initially the only one she pursued.

The screen roles that changed Esther McGregor’s trajectory

Esther’s acting credits stretch from smaller projects to increasingly visible productions.

Obi-Wan Kenobi connected her directly to her father’s Star Wars legacy

One of the most searchable facts about Esther is her appearance in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi.

She played Tetha Grig in the episode “Part II,” appearing under the name Esther Rose McGregor. The role gave her an unusual professional connection with her father, who returned to the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the 2022 series.

The casting naturally attracted attention because Ewan McGregor was the central star of the series. Yet Esther’s subsequent career indicates that Obi-Wan Kenobi was a starting point rather than the defining achievement of her acting career.

High School showed another side of her range

In 2022, Esther also appeared in High School, the Freevee series based on the memoir of musicians Tegan and Sara Quin.

She played Natalie, adding a contemporary coming-of-age television credit to her résumé. The role arrived in the same year as Obi-Wan Kenobi, making 2022 an important early period in her professional screen career.

The Room Next Door and Babygirl moved her into prestige cinema

The next major step came with two films that premiered at the Venice Film Festival: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door and Halina Reijn’s Babygirl.

In Babygirl, Esther appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas. Her role was Isabel. The Room Next Door gave her another association with major international filmmakers and actors.

For an emerging actor, the significance is less about the size of each individual role and more about the professional environments surrounding them. Esther was suddenly working around filmmakers and performers with major international reputations.

We Were Liars became a major test of her own identity

If Obi-Wan Kenobi introduced Esther to a huge franchise audience, We Were Liars gave her a role in which she could be evaluated much more directly as part of an ensemble.

The Prime Video series, based on E. Lockhart’s bestselling novel, premiered on June 18, 2025. Esther plays Mirren Sinclair Sheffield, one of the central young characters.

The project was particularly important because Esther described it as her first costarring role in her 2025 ELLE interview. She filmed the series in Nova Scotia while Babygirl and The Room Next Door were premiering at Venice.

That period effectively marked a transition: Esther was no longer simply “Ewan McGregor’s daughter who acts.” She was accumulating recognizable credits of her own.

What Esther McGregor has said about choosing acting

Esther has been candid about the fact that her professional direction has changed.

In ELLE, she explained that although she had pursued modeling, music and tattoo artistry, she now sees acting as the central career she wants to pursue. She described herself as someone who had accumulated many hobbies and eventually needed to narrow her focus.

That decision is important because her background could easily have supported a career built around celebrity visibility alone.

Instead, her recent work suggests a more conventional creative strategy: take roles, work with established filmmakers, learn from experienced performers and gradually build a filmography.

She has also acknowledged the pressure associated with perfection. Discussing her character Mirren in We Were Liars, Esther connected the character’s emotional struggles with her own experience of trying to be perfect for everyone.

Esther and Ewan McGregor: the father-daughter professional connection

The relationship between Esther and Ewan is inevitably part of the story because their careers have intersected.

Their most obvious shared credit is Obi-Wan Kenobi. But Ewan has also spoken publicly about his pride in his daughters’ creative careers.

At his 2024 Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, McGregor specifically acknowledged his children, while explaining that Esther was unable to attend because she was filming We Were Liars. He also discussed his pride in Clara and Esther following him into acting.

That creates an interesting distinction between family legacy and professional identity.

Esther undeniably benefits from being born into a famous acting family. At the same time, her recent choices show an attempt to build a résumé that can stand on its own.

Ewan McGregor’s children: where Esther fits in the family

Child	Mother	Key detail
Clara McGregor	Eve Mavrakis	Actress, model and photographer
Esther Rose McGregor	Eve Mavrakis	Actress, model, musician and tattoo artist
Jamyan McGregor	Eve Mavrakis	Adopted from Mongolia in 2006
Anouk McGregor	Eve Mavrakis	Youngest daughter from McGregor’s first marriage
Laurie McGregor	Mary Elizabeth Winstead	Born in 2021; McGregor’s youngest child

Ewan McGregor and Eve Mavrakis had four children together. McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead later welcomed Laurie, his fifth child.

The family has therefore developed into a blended household spanning two relationships and multiple generations of creative influence.

Her financial profile remains private

There is no authoritative public figure establishing Esther McGregor’s personal net worth.

Celebrity websites sometimes publish estimated wealth figures, but those estimates generally lack access to verified contracts, tax records, investment statements, property records or complete income information. For that reason, a precise dollar figure would be speculation rather than reliable biography.

Her professional résumé has grown significantly, but the financial value of those acting contracts and other creative activities has not been publicly verified.

What comes next for Esther Rose McGregor

Esther’s career is entering a more consequential phase.

Her recent credits demonstrate a progression from television and franchise exposure toward projects with established directors, major actors and substantial streaming audiences. We Were Liars gave her a leading ensemble position, while her film credits have placed her alongside performers such as Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

There are also signs that her ambitions extend beyond acting. A 2026 report listed Esther among the cast of Becoming Capa, a project about photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa.

For now, however, acting is the clearest priority she has publicly identified.

The surname may open the door, but the filmography tells the larger story

Esther Rose McGregor’s most interesting story is not simply that she is Ewan McGregor’s daughter. That fact explains why audiences noticed her early, but it does not explain the increasingly varied work appearing on her résumé.

From Obi-Wan Kenobi to Babygirl and We Were Liars, the trajectory is becoming clearer. Esther is moving from a famous family name toward a professional identity built around acting, while keeping music, tattooing and other forms of creativity within her broader artistic life.

That distinction will likely define the next stage of her career: not whether she is Ewan McGregor’s daughter, but whether audiences eventually know her simply as Esther McGregor.

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Author: Harry Martin
Title: Senior Biography Analyst & Investigative Journalist
Bio: Harry Martin is an investigative journalist and senior biography analyst with over a decade of experience profiling global icons. His work focuses on separating verified facts from public speculation, delivering deeply researched narratives for premium publications.

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This profile distinguishes publicly documented information from estimates and unverified claims. Personal financial figures, private family matters and other details that cannot be independently verified have not been presented as fact. Birth-date discrepancies among secondary sources are explicitly identified rather than silently resolved.