Born in the Dordogne region of France, Eve Mavrakis built a career behind the camera in the British film industry long before her name appeared in the gossip columns. A production designer and art director by trade, she earned credits on films including Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen, Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula — solid, unglamorous craft work that rarely gets a spotlight of its own.
That changed in the mid-1990s when, working on the British legal drama Kavanagh QC, she met a then little-known Scottish actor called Ewan McGregor. The pair married in France in July 1995, and their union — which produced four daughters — endured for 22 years before ending in one of the most closely scrutinised celebrity divorces of recent years.
Mavrakis has kept a notably low profile since the split, rarely speaking publicly and staying out of the spotlight even as McGregor’s remarriage made headlines. What follows is what the public record actually shows about her life, her career and the end of her marriage — without the tabloid gloss.
BLUF: Eve Mavrakis is a French production designer and art director who was married to actor Ewan McGregor for 22 years. She met McGregor on the set of Kavanagh QC in the mid-1990s, married him in France in 1995 and raised four daughters with him before the couple separated in May 2017. Their divorce was finalised in August 2020, with McGregor agreeing to pay monthly child and spousal support and to split royalties from projects made during the marriage.
At a Glance
- Full name: Eve Mavrakis (sometimes credited as Eve McGregor)
- Born: 22 June 1966 in Dordogne, France, according to published biographical profiles
- Occupation: Production designer and art director
- Notable credits: Bandit Queen (1994), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Tube Tales, Imagine Me & You and the television series Kavanagh QC
- Marriage: Ewan McGregor, married in France in July 1995; separated May 2017
- Divorce: Filed January 2018; finalised August 2020
- Children: Four daughters with McGregor — Clara (born 1996), Esther (born 2001), Jamyan (adopted 2006) and Anouk (born 2011)
Early life and film career
Mavrakis was born on 22 June 1966 in Dordogne, in south-west France. Published profiles describe her parents as Greek immigrants, and she is reported to have moved to Britain to pursue a career in film. One account of her early work says she began as an interpreter on Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1988) before moving into production design with Bandit Queen in 1994. These early biographical details are drawn from secondary profiles; the public record on her childhood is otherwise thin, and she has not given a major interview about it.
Her professional credits through the 1990s and 2000s include work on the television series Kavanagh QC, the portmanteau film Tube Tales, and features including The Innocent Sleep and Imagine Me & You (2005). In the early 2000s she and McGregor established a company, Ladies of Oz, together. She also appeared in McGregor’s motorcycle documentaries Long Way Round and Long Way Down, which chronicled his journeys with friend Charley Boorman.
Marriage to Ewan McGregor
Mavrakis first met McGregor in 1995 while both were working on Kavanagh QC — she in the art department, he in a guest acting role. They married in France that July, seven months before the birth of their first child. At the time, McGregor was still years away from the Star Wars prequels that would make him a global star.
The couple went on to have four daughters: Clara Mathilde (born February 1996), who has become an actress and model; Esther Rose (born November 2001); their adopted daughter, Jamyan McGregor, born in Mongolia in June 2001 and adopted in April 2006 after McGregor met her at a children’s shelter while filming in the country; and Anouk, born in February 2011 and adopted as an infant. McGregor has a heart-and-dagger tattoo of Clara and Esther’s names on his right arm, as reported in older profiles of the actor.
The divorce
After 22 years of marriage, the couple split in May 2017. Court documents later listed the date of separation as 28 May 2017. McGregor filed for divorce in January 2018, citing irreconcilable differences, a few months after being photographed with his Fargo co-star Mary Elizabeth Winstead. In her response, Mavrakis initially sought sole custody of the children with visitation for him, while he sought joint custody.
The divorce was finalised in August 2020, when a judge signed off on a settlement the pair had reached two months earlier. Under the terms reported by Entertainment Tonight from court documents, McGregor agreed to pay $14,934 a month in child support and $35,868 a month in spousal support, and to share legal and physical custody of their youngest daughter, Anouk. He also agreed to hand over half of the royalties and residuals from projects made during the marriage, including his earnings from Moulin Rouge!, Angels & Demons, Beauty and the Beast and four Star Wars films.
McGregor later told GQ that the divorce was “like a bomb going off in everyone’s life — my children’s lives.” In June 2021, he and Winstead welcomed a son, Laurie, and the couple married in April 2022.
Life after the split
Mavrakis has not pursued a public profile since the divorce. Unlike many celebrity ex-spouses, she has given no tell-all interviews and maintains no verified public social media presence that the press has identified. Her professional credits in recent years are sparse, consistent with the sporadic pattern of her career before the marriage ended.
What the record does show is a cordial family picture. In February 2026, photographs from daughter Clara’s 30th birthday celebrations showed both Mavrakis and McGregor in attendance — a quiet indication that the former spouses have maintained a working relationship as parents to their four daughters.
People Also Ask
Who is Eve Mavrakis?
Eve Mavrakis is a French production designer and art director best known as the former wife of actor Ewan McGregor. Born in Dordogne, France in 1966, she worked on films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the television series Kavanagh QC, where she met McGregor in 1995. She was married to him for 22 years and is the mother of their four daughters.
How long were Ewan McGregor and Eve Mavrakis married?
Ewan McGregor and Eve Mavrakis were married for 22 years. They wed in France in July 1995, separated in May 2017, and their divorce was finalised in August 2020 after McGregor filed for divorce in January 2018.
How many children do Ewan McGregor and Eve Mavrakis have?
They have four daughters together: Clara (born 1996), Esther (born 2001), Jamyan (born in Mongolia in 2001 and adopted in 2006) and Anouk (born in 2011 and adopted as an infant). McGregor also has a son, Laurie, with his second wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
What happened in the Ewan McGregor and Eve Mavrakis divorce settlement?
According to court documents reported by Entertainment Tonight, McGregor agreed to pay $14,934 a month in child support and $35,868 a month in spousal support, to share legal and physical custody of their youngest daughter Anouk, and to split half of the royalties and residuals from projects made during the marriage, including four Star Wars films. Neither party has given a detailed public account of the reasons for the split; the divorce filings cited irreconcilable differences.