Ewen Bremner
Ewen Bremner (born January 23, 1972) is a Scottish character actor. His roles have included Julien in Julien Donkey-Boy and Daniel "Spud" Murphy in Trainspotting and its 2017 sequel T2 Trainspotting.
Bremner was born in Edinburgh, the son of two art teachers. He attended Davidson's Mains Primary School and Portobello High School. He originally wanted to be a circus clown, but was offered a chance at screen acting by television director Richard D. Brooks. One of his first notable roles was as a Glasgow schoolboy in Charles Gormley's Heavenly Pursuits (1986). He also played the lead in the BBC Scotland feature-length adaptation of the William McIlvanney short story "Dreaming" (1990).
Bremner portrayed Spud in Danny Boyle's film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel Trainspotting, and later Mullet, a street thug in Guy Ritchie's Snatch. In the 1994 stage version of Trainspotting, Bremner played the lead role of Mark Renton, the role played by Ewan McGregor in the 1996 film. He has played supporting roles in blockbusters such as Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down.
In 2017 he produced the short film No Song to Sing.
He has one daughter, with actress Marcia Rose, whom he met during the filming of Skin.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 16.771 |
| Birthday | 1972-01-23 |
| Place of Birth | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
2000
Snatch
7.81/9065
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down...
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Snatch
2001
Black Hawk Down
7.386/5747
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and...
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Black Hawk Down
2004
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
5.9/4449
When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they k...
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
1996
Trainspotting
7.963/9664
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also ha...
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Trainspotting
2003
The Rundown
6.452/1978
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's...
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The Rundown
2001
Pearl Harbor
6.941/6496
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love...
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Pearl Harbor
2007
Death at a Funeral
6.895/1733
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an...
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Death at a Funeral
2004
Around the World in 80 Days
5.933/2507
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
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Around the World in 80 Days
2007
Hallam Foe
6.664/168
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, h...
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Hallam Foe
1993
Naked
7.3/554
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
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Naked
2008
Fool's Gold
5.7/1464
Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When...
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Fool's Gold
1998
The Acid House
6.3/120
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor w...
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The Acid House
1995
Judge Dredd
5.8/2479
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his m...
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Judge Dredd
2004
The Reckoning
6.4/105
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small tow...
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The Reckoning
2000
Paranoid
3.728/39
Chloe Keane is an stressed American fashion model living in London who is about to have the worst weekend of her life. She and her boyfriend are invit...
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Paranoid
1990
Meat
0/0
An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.
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Meat
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
5.868/4546
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its ter...
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
1999
Julien Donkey-Boy
6.9/105
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, anorexic would-be wrestler brother...
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Julien Donkey-Boy
2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
5.916/848
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue wha...
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2009
Faintheart
6.304/24
A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.
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Faintheart
2013
Jack the Giant Slayer
5.845/4894
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unlea...
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Jack the Giant Slayer
2011
Perfect Sense
6.9/1141
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a...
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Perfect Sense
2011
Page Eight
6.6/292
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
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Page Eight
2003
Sweet Dreams
6.1/8
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Da...
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Sweet Dreams
1995
The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet
4.8/5
Stuck in their late Grandfather's country cottage with no TV, Anthea, Robert and Chris are resigned to a boring week until they find a mouldy old carp...
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The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet
1997
Mojo
4.8/4
The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead...
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Mojo
2013
Snowpiercer
6.9/9552
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that tr...
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Snowpiercer
2023
Freedom's Path
8.9/4
A Union soldier flees from battle and is rescued unexpectedly by free Black man Kitch and his friends. Risking everything, Kitch takes William deep in...
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Freedom's Path
1995
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
0/0
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire...
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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1986
Heavenly Pursuits
7.2/8
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles t...
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Heavenly Pursuits
1996
Dead London
0/0
An ironic and macabre tale of two men who have worked out a theory that allows them to predict violent deaths in the capital.
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Dead London
1995
Skin
5.9/8
A racist skinhead falls in love with a black woman.
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Skin
1992
As You Like It
5.5/2
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad...
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As You Like It
2005
Match Point
7.359/4064
Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris....
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Match Point
2014
Turks & Caicos
6.3/142
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new...
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Turks & Caicos
2014
Salting the Battlefield
6.3/114
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...
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Salting the Battlefield
2014
A Poet in New York
5.3/6
In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and t...
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A Poet in New York
2000
The Secret World of Michael Fry
0/0
Council Planner Michael Fry uncovers a sinister plot in his Welsh seaside home town, and finds himself caught in a growing tide of corruption and slea...
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The Secret World of Michael Fry
2014
The Veil of Twilight
5.8/6
The investigation of a mysterious serial-killer in a mountain village, set in Norway in the mid 1300s.
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The Veil of Twilight
2002
Fancy Dancing
0/0
A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
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Fancy Dancing
2022
Cavewoman
6/1
During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Insp...
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Cavewoman
Am I Irvine Welsh?
0/0
A year in the company of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a record label, works on two television series and adapts...
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Am I Irvine Welsh?
2008
Mediator
7/2
The detective will have to figure out the mysterious death of an English secret agent who came to Tbilisi to sell important secret information.
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Mediator
2010
One Night in Emergency
8/1
Over the course of one night, a man struggles to find his wife in the wards of an inner-city hospital. Journeying through the corridors he meets a ser...
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One Night in Emergency
2017
T2 Trainspotting
6.945/3119
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
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T2 Trainspotting
2017
Etta's Mission
10/1
Etta Candy and the rest of the Wonder Woman team meeting up to discuss a top-secret mission.
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Etta's Mission
1991
Dreaming
0/0
Unemployed Ayrshire teenager Sammy Nelson is a dreamer, using his vivid imagination to conjure up a gallery of heroes. But far from simply providing a...
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Dreaming
1999
Love Story
0/0
A short film by Nick Love.
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Love Story
2017
Wonder Woman
7.222/19966
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Wonder Woman
2014
Get Santa
6.035/128
A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself o...
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Get Santa
2000
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
3.5/2
The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a ge...
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The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
1990
The Fool
7/2
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...
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The Fool
2014
Exchange and Mart
0/0
Girls boarding school in the remote Scottish Highlands, 1986. Reg is a lonely 15 year old girl, who stares longingly out of her dorm window at the cha...
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Exchange and Mart
1975
A Girl Named Sooner
4.2/4
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made...
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A Girl Named Sooner
2008
Marvelous
0/0
After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her...
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Marvelous
2016
Carousel
0/0
A man doles out a torrent of accumulated wisdom to a teen with unexpected results.
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Carousel
2017
Renegades
5.571/332
In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidde...
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Renegades
2013
Drone
5/3
A day in the life of a Drone operator.
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Drone
1995
Ruffian Hearts
0/0
An off-beat romantic comedy about the complex relationships between the inhabitants of a Glasgow tenement block. The final film in the Love Bites tril...
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Ruffian Hearts
1997
Deacon Brodie
0/0
Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 Deacon Brodie a master cabinet maker and town counc...
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Deacon Brodie
1997
The Life of Stuff
0/0
Brutal drama, with the occasional comic twist, about a wannabe gangster who buys a Glasgow warehouse which he plans to turn into the flagship of his c...
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The Life of Stuff
2012
Great Expectations
6.4/344
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy...
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Great Expectations
2002
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
5.8/4
A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film charts Dali's meteoric rise from obscurity to the wo...
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Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2009
Wide Open Spaces
3.5/2
Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles has one - Austin - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each on...
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Wide Open Spaces
1994
Royal Deceit
5.6/35
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
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Royal Deceit
2003
16 Years of Alcohol
5.7/23
16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his 1987 novel. The film is Jobson's first directorial effor...
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16 Years of Alcohol
1990
Forget About Me
0/0
Two Scottish soldiers stationed in Germany head to Budapest to see a Simple Minds concert and fall for a local girl.
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Forget About Me
1989
Conquest of the South Pole
0/0
A Group of unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole.
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Conquest of the South Pole
2007
Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
8/2
Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885, Ra...
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Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
1997
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
0/0
A young man's odyssey from a small town in Colorado to Budapest, in search of his estranged girlfriend.
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Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1999
The Confession of Julien Donkey-Boy
6/1
Making of/behind the scenes featurette from the Julien Donkey-Boy DVD.
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The Confession of Julien Donkey-Boy
2021
Creation Stories
5.9/24
The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtra...
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Creation Stories
2020
First Cow
7.052/470
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon th...
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First Cow
2021
American Sausage Standoff
5.1/9
A character driven comedy about sausages and friendship. Set in small-town America, it's a story about two hopeless dreamers who join forces in a ques...
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American Sausage Standoff
1988
The Riveter
0/0
An out of work father is under pressure from social workers and his criminal friends.
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The Riveter
2001
Making 'Snatch'
6.222/18
The making of Guy Ritchie's 'Snatch'.
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Making 'Snatch'
Canyon of the Dead
0/0
Two archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them.
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Canyon of the Dead
1992
Bye Bye Baby
1/1
Exploring the often hilarious world of a young Jewish lad conscript and how he survives the Russians, the Royal Navy and the relationship with his gir...
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Bye Bye Baby
2025
Odd Socks
0/0
In a world where humans live alongside sock-monsters, a maverick human detective must battle lies, deception, and every movie cliché in his hunt for t...
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