Ewan McGregor's private life became tabloid fodder in 2017, when the actor seemingly left his wife of 22 years, Eve Mavrakis, for a co-star. It wasn't a great situation at the time, with his older daughters with Mavrakis, now 19-year-old Esther McGregor and 25-year-old Clara McGregor, taking him to task on social media. But in a new article in The New York Times, Ewan McGregor says he and his daughters are on great terms now. In the interview, Ewan opens up about Esther and Clara, who have both worked as models. He also has two other daughters, 19-year-old Jamyan McGregor and 10-year-old Anouk McGregor with Mavrakis. While Jamyan is the same age as Esther, she is not in the entertainment business like her sisters and lives a more private life as a freshman in college.
Read on to find out more about Esther and Clara's careers, and about the McGregor family.
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Esther and Clara starred in a fashion campaign together.
Wonderland Magazine/YouTubeIn 2018, Clara and Esther were in a campaign for Fendi together. The video clip they starred in shows the sisters wearing matching outfits and cowboy boots while carrying Fendi bags.
In his recent interview with The Times, Ewan talked about getting to visit his daughters on a set, which was a role reversal since, in the past, they had been the ones stopping by to see him.
"They are beautiful, aren’t they?" he said. "I was able to visit them on a shoot that they both did together in New York ... I actually went out and got them some sandwiches."
Clara is signed to Wilhelmina Models.
Ron Adar / Shutterstock.comWhile both Clara and Esther have modeled, Clara is the one who took it on as a career. She is signed to Wilhelmina Models and in a 2017 interview with W Magazine, she explained that she was also interested acting and photography.
"[Modeling] started with my interest in photography, but then my interests shifted and I got more into acting," she said. "I’ve always wanted to expand what I was doing and I really love fashion; modeling just seemed like it went hand-in-hand with acting and photography." At the time, Clara was attending New York University and majoring in Cinema Studies. More recently, Clara launched a production company called Deux Dames Entertainment and she'll soon be working with her dad.
Clara and Ewan will be collaborating on a screenplay she wrote inspired by her experience with addiction to Xanax. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story is about a father and daughter on a road trip to take her to a rehab facility, and Ewan is the executive producer.
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Esther has a lot of artistic interests, too.
Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Self-PortraitIn addition to sharing photos of herself modeling on Instagram, Esther also posts about plenty of her other work. The 19-year-old is a tattoo artist, musician, photographer, and clothing designer (her line is called EnL Clothing). As her Instagram notes, she's set to graduate from NYU in 2024.
As for her music, she is in a band with her friend Leo Major called French Thyme. They released their first EP in Sept. 2020, ET Canada reports. Esther sings in both English and French—her mother, Mavrakis, is French and the McGregor kids speak the language fluently.
Esther and Clara made headlines when their parents split up.
Jerod Harris/WireImage via Getty ImagesEwan and Mavrakis broke up in 2017 after 22 years of marriage amid the release of a photo of him kissing his Fargo co-star Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Their divorce was finalized in 2020.
When the photo of Ewan and Winstead was published, both Clara and Esther shared social media posts either directly or seemingly related to the news.
As reported by E! News in 2018, Clara called Winstead "a piece of trash" in an Instagram comment. "Most beautiful and talented woman on earth???" Clara wrote under a photo of the actor on a fan account. "Oh man y'all are delusional. The girl is a piece of trash :) x." Another Instagram user commented, "Say it to her face not in social media. It took TWO to undo this marriage. If a man OR woman is happy w/ their marriage no outside interference can destroy that!" Clara responded, "Yup it took two!! Mary & my father :)."
Esther, who was 15 at the time, shared a video of her singing a song on Instagram with lyrics that seemed related to the situation. As reported by The Sun, lyrics included, "Seeing those pictures/They’re making me cry/Happy birthday to me, Am I right?" and "I don’t know to forgive/I don’t know if I can."
McGregor and his daughters are on much better terms now.
A few years have passed since Mavrakis and Ewan's split, and everyone is on better terms. Both Clara and Esther recently shared birthday posts for their dad on Instagram, and have shared other family pics in recent years, like this one of the three of them together in Feb. 2020.
Ewan and Winstead are still together, and Clara spoke positively of her in a recent profile of Ewan in The Hollywood Reporter. "I’m hugely fond of Mary," she said. "She's family. Everything on my end with all of that was handled very poorly. But I have new family now and I'm grateful for all of them."
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