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I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place.

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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