- Ewan McGregor
I was born on March 31, 1971, in Perth Royal Hospital, Scotland. I was the second son of teachers Jim and Carol McGregor. My brother Colin, a tornado fighter pilot, is two years older than me. I grew up in the small town of Crieff
- Hayden Christensen
Hayden Christensen (born April 19, 1981) is a Canadian actor. He appeared in Canadian television programs when he was young, then diversified into American television in the late 1990s. He moved on to minor acting roles before being praised for his role of Sam in "Life as a House". He gained international fame playing the young adult Anakin Skywalker in the "Star Wars" films.
- Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the "Star Wars" film series, and the adventurous archaeologist/action hero in the Indiana Jones film series. Ford has also been the star of many high-grossing hits Hollywood blockbusters such as "Air Force One" and "The Fugitive", which have distanced him from his famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles.
- Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress.
- Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original "Star Wars" films, Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair in the Wing Commander franchise, and as the voice of The Joker in "Batman: The Animated Series". After the "Star Wars" films, Hamill worked on Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and computer and video games, …
- Kenny Baker
Kenneth George Baker (born August 24, 1934) is a British dwarf actor best known as the man inside of R2-D2 in the popular "Star Wars" film series. Baker, who stands 3 feet, 8 inches (112 cm) tall, was a circus and cabaret performer with entertainer Jack Purvis when George Lucas hired him to be the man inside R2-D2 in "Star Wars" in 1977. Baker appears in five of the six "Star Wars" films; though credited on Episode III, he never filmed any scenes.
- Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films. Jackson is currently working on seven films that will debut between 2007 and 2009. In motion pictures that feature him as a leading actor or supporting co-star, …
- James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (b. January 17, 1931) is an American Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage, well known for his deep baritone voice.
- Carrie Fisher
Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. She is perhaps most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia Organa in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, although her comedic novels also have won praise.
- Peter Mayhew
Peter Mayhew (born May 19, 1944 in Barnes, London, England) is an English actor, best known for playing the Wookiee, Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" movies. He is 7'3" (2.22 meters) tall. Before getting into acting, Mayhew worked as an orderly at London's King's College Hospital.
- Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international prominence in 2003, after co-starring in the films "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl". Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, …
- Anthony Daniels
Anthony Kingsley Daniels (born February 21, 1946 in Salisbury, England), and educated at Giggleswick School, is an English actor best known for his role as the droid C-3PO in the "Star Wars" series of films made between 1977 and 2005. It is interesting to note that Daniels and Kenny Baker (who played R2-D2 in the series) are the only actors credited as playing the same role in all six of the Star Wars films.
- David Prowse
David "Dave" Prowse, MBE (born July 1, 1935 in Bristol, United Kingdom) is an English body-builder, weightlifter and actor, most widely known for his role as the physical form of Darth Vader. His peak height was at 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) and he weighed 265 lbs (120 kg). Prowse is a native of Bristol, where he attended Bristol Grammar School.
- Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson , born in Ireland, studied to be a teacher before turning to acting. He received an Academy Award nomination for his work in Schindlers List , a Golden Globe nomination for Michael Collins , and a Tony Award nomination for Anna Christie . He has starred in numerous films including Star Wars: Episode 1The Phantom Menace; Nell; and Husbands and Wives .
- Warwick Davis
Warwick Ashley Davis (born February 3, 1970) is an English actor. He is noted for having dwarfism, standing only tall. Davis is probably best known as the title character in "Willow", Wicket W. Warrick in "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi", Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies, the title character in "Leprechaun" and its sequels and as Marvin the Paranoid Android in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
- Jeremy Bulloch
Jeremy Bulloch (born February 16, 1945 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire) is a British actor. He has appeared in numerous British TV and film productions, including "Doctor Who" and "Robin of Sherwood". In a career spanning almost half a century, he is perhaps most famous for his minor role as Boba Fett in the Star Wars films "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". He also has a minor role in two James Bond films as Smithers, …
- Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation.
- Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid (born August 11, 1944) is a Tony Award-winning Scottish actor. He has had a successful career in theatre; he has been cast in many plays, while occasionally directing others. Although McDiarmid has appeared mostly in theatrical productions, he has also accepted roles in theatrical films and TV movies. Worldwide, he is most famous for his role as Palpatine in both the original and prequel "Star Wars" trilogies.
- Christopher Lee
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922) is an English actor known for his professional longevity and his distinctive "basso" delivery. Lee is also best known for his portrayals of villains; he became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in "The Wicker Man," Francisco Scaramanga in "The Man with the Golden Gun", …
- Daniel Logan
Daniel Logan is a Māori actor from New Zealand. Logan was born in New Zealand. He broke into acting when his amateur rugby team was scouted for a TV commercial, where he was chosen to play the role of a small child who gets knocked into the mud by Auckland rugby star Michael Jones. Picked up by a casting agent, he began to do more commercials and TV appearances, …
- Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor who for a period in the 1970s rivaled Sidney Poitier as the most popular black actor in American film.
- Matthew Wood
Matthew Wood (born August 15, 1972 in Walnut Creek, California) is an employee of Skywalker Sound. For the last 15 years, he has worked on numerous film projects, his work being credited as sound editing and sound design. He has been an innovative force within the industry, pioneering new technologies for motion picture sound.
- Ray Park
Raymond Park (born August 23,1974), better known as Ray Park, is a Scottish stunt man and actor. He is best known for his performance as the Sith Lord Darth Maul in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace".
- Frank Oz
Frank Oz (born May 25, 1944) is an American film director, actor and puppeteer.
- Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE, (26 May 1913-11 August1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee. He was also asked, because he was such a familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, to appear as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original "Star Wars" film.
- Denis Lawson
Denis Lawson (born September 27, 1947 in Crieff, Perth and Kinross), is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his roles as Wedge Antilles in the original "Star Wars" trilogy and as Gordon Urquhart in the film "Local Hero".
- Bai Ling
Bai Ling (born October 10 1961) is a Chinese actress who has also attained fame in the United States. Bai, her surname, literally means "white". Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever.
- William Hootkins
William Michael Hootkins (July 5, 1948 - October 23, 2005) was an American actor who played Red Six (Jek Porkins) in "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977) and as the crooked Lt. Max Eckhardt in "Batman" (1989). As well as the cult roles that made him a welcome figure at fan conventions, particularly for "Star Wars", he appeared in significant parts in such films as "Hear My Song" (1991), …
- Phil Brown
Philip Mortimer Brown (April 30 1916 - February 9 2006) was an American actor. Brown was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After majoring in dramatics at Stanford University, Brown played some of his earliest stage roles as part of New York's Group Theater. When it folded, he and other Group Theatre veterans headed to Hollywood, where Brown worked in motion pictures and helped found the fabled Actors' Laboratory.
- Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor. Edgerton was born in Sydney, Australia. He has appeared in such films as "Erskineville Kings", "King Arthur", "Ned Kelly", and, most notably, "Star Wars" episodes II and III, portraying a young Owen Lars, step-brother of Anakin Skywalker and uncle to Luke Skywalker. Edgerton's brother, Nash, was the stunt double for Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
- Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American directress, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the first American woman and is only the third woman in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.
- Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits (born July 9, 1955) is a Golden Globe and Emmy winning American actor, primarily in movies, soap operas and television perhaps best known for his long-running roles on the TV series "L.A. Law" as Richard Dysart's youngest uptight law partner, Victor Sifuentes, who was also the firm's pro-bono lawyer (a role he played from 1986 to 1991), and as Dennis Franz's second partner, Det.
- Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed is an English actor, who came to fame as PC 'Fancy' Smith in the BBC TV police drama series "Z Cars". He is a highly charismatic man with a booming voice, great beard and robust build ideal for the bushy bearded, often humorous men in Shakespearean and medieval dramas. The son of a miner, Blessed was born in the ex-mining town of Mexborough and grew up in the nearby town of Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
- Jake Lloyd
Jacob Christopher Lloyd (born March 5 1989) is an American actor who gained worldwide fame when he was chosen to play the young Anakin Skywalker in the George Lucas prequel "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace".
- Temuera Morrison
Temuera Derek Morrison (born December 26, 1960) is a New Zealand actor. He has become one of the country's most famous stars for his roles as the abusive Jake "the Muss" Heke in 1994's "Once Were Warriors" and as bounty hunter Jango Fett in the "Star Wars" series.
- Terence Stamp
Terence Henry Stamp (born July 22, 1938) is an English actor.
- John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgow (pronounced "lith-go") (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun". He has also acted on stage, film, and radio. He has earned multiple Emmy Awards and Tony Awards, as well as other honors. He has also recorded music for children.
- Michael Sheard
Michael Sheard (18 June, 1938 – 31 August, 2005) was a Scottish actor who featured in a large number of films and television programmes. Star Wars fans know him as Admiral Ozzel from "The Empire Strikes Back", whereas those of "Grange Hill" will remember his performance as the terrifying deputy headmaster Mr Maurice Bronson. In 1983, he played Herr Grunwald, the German manager of a building site in the first series of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet".
- Garrick Hagon
Garrick Hagon (born September 27, 194?) is a British film and theatre actor and voice actor, who was raised in Toronto, Canada. He is best known for his portrayal of Biggs Darklighter in "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" and Goemon Ishikawa XIII in the Manga UK dubs of "The Secret of Mamo" and "Goodbye Lady Liberty". He is also credited as Garrick Hagen. He was also a regular in "The Archers" as Simon Gerrard, …
- Julian Glover
Julian Wyatt Glover (born March 27 1935) is an English actor.