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name: "Ewen MacAskill"
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updated: "2026-09-17T05:18:57.496242+00:00"
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# Ewen MacAskill

Actor. Born in Glasgow, Scotland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6553741/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1417336

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Citizenfour*](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md) (83)

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## Biography

Ewen MacAskill is a Scottish journalist. He worked for *The Guardian* for 22 years until his retirement in 2018, holding positions including defence and intelligence correspondent, Washington DC bureau chief, diplomatic editor and chief political correspondent.

MacAskill was part of the team that reported the 2013 Edward Snowden disclosures on US National Security Agency surveillance activities. He appears as himself in the 2014 documentary *Citizenfour*, directed by Laura Poitras, which depicts the initial meetings with Snowden in Hong Kong. The reporting earned him a share of the 2013 George Polk Award and contributed to *The Guardian*'s 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Born in Glasgow in 1951, MacAskill was educated at the University of Glasgow.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Citizenfour* (2014), Fi1m 83, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md)

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