Personal Info
Birth date
1972-01-23 (53 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known as
اون برمنر
Ewen Bremner
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Graham Norton Show
7.2
Overview:
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.My Name Is Earl
7.666
Overview:
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.Our Flag Means Death
7.71
Overview:
After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.Far from Las Vegas
6.9
Overview:
Langt fra Las Vegas is a Danish sit-com, which was first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It revolved around life at a newly started TV morning show, Jump Start, and focused on the life of the main character, Casper. Langt fra Las Vegas consisted of 53 episodes, aired over 5 seasons with each episode lasting 25 minutes. It ran from 2001-2003.A Touch of Frost
7.5
Overview:
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.Shooting Stars
7.6
Overview:
Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.An Audience with...
5.3
Overview:
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.Houdini & Doyle
6.5
Overview:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?Moving On
7.1
Overview:
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.Harry Enfield and Chums
7.1
Overview:
Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Paul Whitehouse and others take on an array of oddball characters and old-time favorites in this sketch comedy show.Spooks
7.665
Overview:
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.Taggart
6.3
Overview:
Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.Wonder Woman
7.217
Overview:
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.Will
6.111
Overview:
The wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London -- the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous side-shows. It's a contemporary version of Shakespeare's life, played to a modern soundtrack that exposes all his recklessness, lustful temptations and brilliance.Banished
7.3
Overview:
At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.The Lost Room
7.7
Overview:
A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.Snowpiercer
6.904
Overview:
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 travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
6.3
Overview:
In spring 1948, Alleyn joins a weekend party at Frantock Hall. His deductive powers are tested to the limit as he uncovers the sinister connection between the theft of a priceless chalice and a game of murder that goes horribly wrong. Adapted from the novels by Dame Ngaio Marsh, featuring the character Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn.Black Hawk Down
7.387
Overview:
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 the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.Pearl Harbor
6.9
Overview:
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 triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.Snatch
7.812
Overview:
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.Exodus: Gods and Kings
5.877
Overview:
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 terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.The Virgin Queen
6.25
Overview:
The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.Cold Water
NYR
Overview:
John, a repressed man, is shocked to find himself in middle age, secretly raging at his life as a stay-at-home dad. When his failure to intervene in a violent confrontation in a playground brings his identity crisis to a head, John ups and moves his family to the rural idyll of Coldwater, as far away from London as possible. Upon arrival, John is quickly befriended by next-door neighbour Tommy, a charming, confident man, devoted husband to the local vicar Rebecca. John is both impressed and slightly fascinated by Tommy whilst his wife Fiona despises him. When her husband’s relationship with their enigmatic new neighbour becomes increasingly intense, Fiona’s suspicions are aroused. She is unconvinced Tommy is all he seems to be, but John remains blissfully unaware that Tommy is harbouring horrifying secrets.Trainspotting
7.962
Overview:
Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.Jack the Giant Slayer
5.856
Overview:
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. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.AVP: Alien vs. Predator
5.93
Overview:
When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.Elizabeth I
7.2
Overview:
Elizabeth I is a two-part 2005 British historical drama television miniseries directed by Tom Hooper, written by Nigel Williams, and starring Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I of England. The miniseries covers approximately the last 24 years of her nearly 45-year reign. Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester, played by Jeremy Irons. Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex, played by Hugh Dancy. The series originally was broadcast in the United Kingdom in two two-hour segments on Channel 4. It later aired on HBO in the United States, CBC and TMN in Canada, ATV in Hong Kong, ABC in Australia, and TVNZ Television One in New Zealand. The series went on to win Emmy, Peabody, and Golden Globe Awards. The same year, Helen Mirren starred as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, with which she dominated the award season.Acting
TBACold Water (6 Episodes) as Tommy
TBAMichael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life as Self
TBACanyon of the Dead as Sylvanus G. Morley
TBAAm I Irvine Welsh? as Daniel 'Spud' Murphy (archive footage)
2025Odd Socks as Beng (voice)
2023Freedom's Path as Silas
2022Cavewoman as Brother
2022Our Flag Means Death (18 Episodes) as Buttons
2021American Sausage Standoff as Edward Hofler
2021Creation Stories as Alan McGee
2020First Cow as Lloyd
2017Etta's Mission as Charlie
2017Renegades as Jim Rainey
2017Will (10 Episodes) as Richard Topcliffe
2017Wonder Woman as Charlie
2017T2 Trainspotting as Spud
2016Houdini & Doyle (1 Episode) as Sherlock Holmes
2016Carousel as Unknown
2015Banished (7 Episodes) as Reverend Johnson
2014Get Santa as PC Finkerton
2014Exodus: Gods and Kings as Expert
2014The Veil of Twilight as Rabbi Dunbar
2014A Poet in New York as John Malcolm Brinnin
2014Salting the Battlefield as Rollo Madeley
2014Turks & Caicos as Rollo Madeley
2014Exchange and Mart as Mike
2013Snowpiercer as Andrew
2013Drone as Drone Operator
2013Jack the Giant Slayer as Wicke
2012Great Expectations as Wemmick
2012Them From That Thing (2 Episodes) as Various
2012Blackout (3 Episodes) as Jerry Durrans
2011Perfect Sense as James
2011Page Eight as Rollo Maverley
2010Accused (1 Episode) as Frank Best
2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Henry Strangler
2010Dive (2 Episodes) as Stewart
2010One Night in Emergency as Unknown
2009Wide Open Spaces as Austin
2009Moving On (1 Episode) as Adam
2009Faintheart as Julian
2008Marvelous as Lars
2008Fool's Gold as Alfonz
2008Mediator as Steven
2007Death at a Funeral as Justin
2007Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde as R.L. Stevenson
2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self
2007Hallam Foe as Andy
2006The Lost Room (3 Episodes) as Harold Stritzke
2006The Virgin Queen (4 Episodes) as Sir James Melville
2005Match Point as Inspector Dowd
2005Elizabeth I (2 Episodes) as King James VI
2005My Name Is Earl (1 Episode) as Raynard
2004AVP: Alien vs. Predator as Graeme Miller
2004Around the World in 80 Days as Inspector Fix
2004The Reckoning as Simon Damian
2003The Rundown as Declan
200316 Years of Alcohol as Jake
2003Sweet Dreams as Gabriel
2002Fancy Dancing as Bernard Schiff
2002Spooks (1 Episode) as Ryan Baisley
2002Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Salvador Dali
2001Black Hawk Down as SPC Shawn Nelson
2001Making 'Snatch' as Self
2001Pearl Harbor as Red Winkle
2001Far from Las Vegas (1 Episode) as John Twain D'Wain
2000The Name of This Film Is Dogme95 as Self
2000Paranoid as Gordon
2000Snatch as Mullet
2000The Secret World of Michael Fry as Michael Fry
1999Julien Donkey-Boy as Julien
1999The Confession of Julien Donkey-Boy as Self
1999Love Story as Nick
1998The Acid House as Coco Bryce
1997The Life of Stuff as Fraser
1997Mojo as Skinny
1997Deacon Brodie as Louis the apprentice
1997Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest as Chaz
1996Dead London as Paul
1996Masculine Mescaline as Steve Carlisle
1996Trainspotting as Spud
1995The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet as Joe
1995Skin as Billy Boy
1995Ruffian Hearts as Mick
1995Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing as Unknown
1995Judge Dredd as Junior Angel
1994Harry Enfield and Chums (4, 1 Episode) as Jockey, Jim / Jockey
1994Prince of Jutland as Frovin
1993Shooting Stars (1 Episode) as Self
1993Naked as Archie
1993The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (1 Episode) as Walter McNabb
1992A Touch of Frost (1 Episode) as Gordon Hicks
1992Bye Bye Baby as Galloway
1992As You Like It as Silvius
1991Dreaming as Sammy Nelson
1990The Fool as Unknown
1990Meat as Unknown
1990Forget About Me as Broke
1989Conquest of the South Pole as Penguin
1988The Riveter as Slim
1986Heavenly Pursuits as Stevie Deans
1983Taggart (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978An Audience with... (1 Episode) as Self
1975A Girl Named Sooner as Archie
Sound
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