One More for McGregor Clan
by Natalie Finn
Apr 12, 2006, 4:00 PM PT
Ewan McGregor may have to trade in his motorcycle for a minivan.
The Star Wars star and his wife, production designer Eve Mavrakis, have adopted a four-year-old girl from Mongolia, his rep confirmed Wednesday to People magazine. No other details have been made available.
Married since 1995, the couple also have two biological daughters, four-year-old Esther and one-year-old Clara.
Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, was one of the stops on McGregor's mega road trip in 2004, the 20,000-mile motorcycle journey he embarked upon with best mate Charley Boorman that was chronicled in the Bravo series Long Way Round. Founded as a Buddhist monastery town in the 1600s, Ulaanbaatar obviously provided a world of inspiration for the Trainspotting star, eventually prompting him to add to his family tree.
After his three-month trek, the BMW bike McGregor put all that mileage on was auctioned off for almost $200,000, which the philanthropic adventurer donated to UNICEF, Macmillan Cancer Relief and Children's Hospice Association Scotland.
McGregor, 35, and Mavrakis, 39--who arguably could have been judged Coolest Wife of the Year in '04 for letting her husband gad about the globe on two wheels--met on the set of the British crime series Kavanagh QC. The future young Obi-Wan Kenobi was guest-starring on the TV show.
Mavrakis, who was born in France and raised in China, most recently lent her design expertise to the British indie film Imagine Me & You.
Up next for McGregor is the lasciviously titled romantic comedy Scenes of a Sexual Nature, with Sophie Okonedo (who scored an Oscar nod last year for Hotel Rwanda), and a cameo in the British spy thriller Stormbreaker, starring Alicia Silverstone and Mickey Rourke and due this summer.
Aside from his day job and new daddy duties, the world traveler is also planning another cross-continent motorcycle trip for 2007, a Scotland-to-Cape Town jaunt to benefit UNICEF. McGregor visited Africa in December on his first AIDS relief mission since being appointed a UNICEF ambassador in 2004.
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by Natalie Finn
Apr 12, 2006, 4:00 PM PT
Ewan McGregor may have to trade in his motorcycle for a minivan.
The Star Wars star and his wife, production designer Eve Mavrakis, have adopted a four-year-old girl from Mongolia, his rep confirmed Wednesday to People magazine. No other details have been made available.
Married since 1995, the couple also have two biological daughters, four-year-old Esther and one-year-old Clara.
Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, was one of the stops on McGregor's mega road trip in 2004, the 20,000-mile motorcycle journey he embarked upon with best mate Charley Boorman that was chronicled in the Bravo series Long Way Round. Founded as a Buddhist monastery town in the 1600s, Ulaanbaatar obviously provided a world of inspiration for the Trainspotting star, eventually prompting him to add to his family tree.
After his three-month trek, the BMW bike McGregor put all that mileage on was auctioned off for almost $200,000, which the philanthropic adventurer donated to UNICEF, Macmillan Cancer Relief and Children's Hospice Association Scotland.
McGregor, 35, and Mavrakis, 39--who arguably could have been judged Coolest Wife of the Year in '04 for letting her husband gad about the globe on two wheels--met on the set of the British crime series Kavanagh QC. The future young Obi-Wan Kenobi was guest-starring on the TV show.
Mavrakis, who was born in France and raised in China, most recently lent her design expertise to the British indie film Imagine Me & You.
Up next for McGregor is the lasciviously titled romantic comedy Scenes of a Sexual Nature, with Sophie Okonedo (who scored an Oscar nod last year for Hotel Rwanda), and a cameo in the British spy thriller Stormbreaker, starring Alicia Silverstone and Mickey Rourke and due this summer.
Aside from his day job and new daddy duties, the world traveler is also planning another cross-continent motorcycle trip for 2007, a Scotland-to-Cape Town jaunt to benefit UNICEF. McGregor visited Africa in December on his first AIDS relief mission since being appointed a UNICEF ambassador in 2004.
:baby: