Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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Comer
- In Jodie Comer: Movies
Abrams’s blockbuster Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019); she portrayed the mysterious mother of the main character, Rey, a rising Jedi. In 2021 Comer starred with Matt Damon and Adam Driver in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, a 14th-century drama in which a medieval knight’s…
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discussed in biography
- In J.J. Abrams
…he subsequently decided to helm Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the ninth and final episode in the series; Abrams also cowrote the film.
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Driver
- In Adam Driver
…VIII—The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019). In addition, he won praise for his portrayal of a government investigator in the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, a bus driver and poet in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, and a 17th-century Portuguese priest in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
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Fisher
- In Carrie Fisher
…of her was featured in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Fisher’s other films included The Blues Brothers (1980), The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and When Harry Met Sally… (1989).
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Isaac
- In Oscar Isaac: Career
…VIII—The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He took on a different sort of science-fiction role in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), playing mutant supervillain En Sabah Nur, also known as Apocalypse. In 2019 Isaac voiced the character of Gomez Addams in the animated dark comedy…
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Jackson
- In Samuel L. Jackson
…voice of that character in Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
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Lucas
- In George Lucas: The growth of Lucasfilm
…VIII—The Last Jedi (2017), and Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Disney also created the stand-alone movies Rogue One (2016) and Solo (2018). The company then continually released Star Wars content on its Disney+ video streaming platform following its launch in 2019.
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Neeson
- In Liam Neeson
… and lent his voice to Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker. Neeson’s films from 2020 included the action thriller Honest Thief, about a bank robber who faces unexpected trouble when he turns himself in to the authorities. In The Marksman (2021) he was cast as an Arizona rancher who…
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Nyong’o
- In Lupita Nyong’o: Films: 12 Years a Slave, Black Panther, and Us
…role as Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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Russell
- In Keri Russell: The Americans and The Diplomat
…had a supporting role in Star Wars: Episode IX —The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and later starred in the horror-comedy Cocaine Bear (2023). In 2019 she made her Broadway debut, appearing with Adam Driver in a revival of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This. Four years later she began starring in the…
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“Star Wars”
- In Star Wars: The sequel trilogy (2015–19)
With Abrams returning as director, Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker was released in 2019 and completed the Skywalker saga that began more than 40 years previously with A New Hope. The movie brought back Ian McDiarmid’s Emperor Palpatine and revealed that Luke Skywalker had attempted to train his…
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Tran
- In Kelly Marie Tran
…short appearance in the movie Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker.
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