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    Every Star Wars Cameo In The Mandalorian & Grogu

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    Between the main returning characters and some high-profile new additions, The Mandalorian and Grogu is a star-studded affair. The movie continuation of the three-season hit Disney+ series is once again focused on Din Djarin and Grogu, and their big-screen intergalactic adventure features lots of recognizable Star Wars veterans.

    This is seen most clearly with the prominent roles that Rotta the Hutt, the Hutt’s Twins, Zeb, and Embo occupy. Each of them, like Din and Grogu, has been heavily featured in previous Star Wars storytelling. Rotta was central to the 2008 film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, while Embo appeared throughout the TV show of the same name. Zeb was a main character in Star Wars Rebels, but The Twins debuted in The Book of Boba Fett.

    But, the first Star Wars movie in seven years also has several cameos throughout its 2-hour and 12-minute runtime. This is nothing new for the franchise. Directors like George Lucas and Gareth Edwards cameoed in their own movies, while Tom Hardy, Daniel Craig, Karl Urban, and Jason Sudeikis had speaking roles as Stormtroopers in different productions. The Mandalorian and Grogu‘s cast has some surprise members, too.

















    A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away · Eight Questions
    How Well Do You Know Star Wars?
    “The Force will be with you. Always.”

    🗡️Jedi OrderLight-side guardians

    ⚡The SithRule of two

    ⚙️The RebellionA new hope

    🪓Bounty HuntersThis is the way

    👑The EmpireOrder 66

    01

    The original Star Wars film — later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope — opened in just 32 American theatres and proceeded to become the highest-grossing film of its era, redefining what summer blockbusters could be. In which year did it premiere?




    ✓ Correct! 1977 — specifically May 25. 20th Century Fox had so little faith in the project they only opened it in 32 theatres at first; queues quickly stretched around the block, and the film expanded to over 1,000 screens within months. It earned $307 million in its initial domestic run, won six Academy Awards (with another four nominations) and inverted Hollywood’s economics for the next 50 years.

    ✗ Wrong. The answer is 1977. 1975 is when the script was being shopped around. 1979 is when Star Trek: The Motion Picture released as a Star Wars-shaped countermove. 1980 is The Empire Strikes Back. The original Star Wars is May 25, 1977.

    02

    A New Hope’s writer-director was a then-32-year-old American Graffiti veteran who’d struggled to get the project greenlit and famously took back-end profit and merchandising rights in lieu of a higher salary — the deal that would build a billion-dollar company. He returned to direct the prequels but stepped away from the original-trilogy sequels. Name him.




    ✓ Correct! George Lucas. The merchandising rights he kept (because Fox didn’t value them) became the financial bedrock of Lucasfilm and the basis of the modern toys-and-licensing megabusiness. After A New Hope, Lucas produced but didn’t direct Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) or Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), then directed all three prequels (1999–2005). He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 and stepped away from creative control of the sequels.

    ✗ Wrong. The answer is George Lucas. Steven Spielberg was Lucas’s close friend (and the godfather of his post-A-New-Hope career) but never directed a Star Wars film. Coppola was Lucas’s mentor at USC and at American Zoetrope. Irvin Kershner directed Empire Strikes Back. The original is Lucas’s.

    03

    In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader delivers cinema’s most-misquoted line at the climax of his Cloud City duel with Luke Skywalker. Vader severs Luke’s hand and reveals their relationship. The exact line is — for the record — “No, I am your father.” What relationship does it confirm?




    ✓ Correct! Vader is Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father. The reveal was so jealously guarded that Mark Hamill was only told the real line on set the day they shot it (the script said “Obi-Wan killed your father”), and even James Earl Jones recorded the dub without knowing the full plot context. The line — commonly misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” — rewrote what trilogies could pull off and is broadly considered cinema’s most famous twist.

    ✗ Wrong. The answer is that Vader is Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker. The whole foundation of the Skywalker saga collapses to this single twist: Anakin (the Jedi prodigy of the prequels) becomes Vader after his fall. Luke and Leia are revealed in Return of the Jedi to be his twin children, separated at birth.

    04

    Yoda — the green, ear-twitching Jedi Master — was puppeted and voiced from his Empire Strikes Back debut through the prequels and the sequels by a single Muppet-show-veteran performer who also voices Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. Name him.




    ✓ Correct! Frank Oz — longtime Jim Henson collaborator and voice/puppet work on Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle and Grover. Oz puppeted Yoda directly through The Phantom Menace before CGI took over for Attack of the Clones onward, but he’s continued to voice the character through the sequels and animated series. Yoda’s syntax was developed jointly by Lucas and Oz to feel old, foreign and hard-won.

    ✗ Wrong. The answer is Frank Oz. Jim Henson was Oz’s mentor and collaborator (he created the Muppets) but didn’t voice Yoda. Steve Whitmire took over Kermit after Henson’s 1990 death. Brian Henson is Jim’s son and runs the Henson company today. Yoda is Frank Oz’s.

    05

    In a deal that reshaped Hollywood, Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion in cash and stock — bringing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM and Skywalker Sound under the Disney umbrella. The deal also kicked off the sequel trilogy production. In what year did Disney close the acquisition?




    ✓ Correct! 2012 — specifically October 30. The deal was announced with simultaneous reveal that a Star Wars Episode VII was being developed for a 2015 release. Lucas had been quietly preparing his exit from Lucasfilm for years; Kathleen Kennedy had been brought in as co-chair months earlier specifically to take over. The Force Awakens came out three years later, in December 2015, kicking off the modern era.

    ✗ Wrong. The answer is 2012. 2009 is when Disney acquired Marvel ($4 billion). 2010 is the year before Lucas began signalling exit plans. 2014 is when production proper began on The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm joined Disney on October 30, 2012.

    06

    The Mandalorian launched as Disney+’s flagship original on November 12, 2019 — the day the streaming service itself launched. Created by Jon Favreau and run by Dave Filoni, the show centres on a helmeted bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes a foster father to “The Child” (Grogu). What is the Mandalorian’s real name?




    ✓ Correct! Din Djarin — played by Pedro Pascal under the helmet (with body double Brendan Wayne handling much of the physical work). The Mandalorian is widely credited with reviving Star Wars on TV, popularising the StageCraft LED-volume virtual production technology now used across Hollywood, and turning baby Yoda — Grogu — into the meme-economy phenomenon of late 2019. Three seasons have aired with a feature film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for May 2026.

    ✗ Wrong. The answer is Din Djarin. Boba Fett is the famous bounty hunter from the original trilogy, with his own Disney+ spinoff (The Book of Boba Fett, 2021). Cobb Vanth is the Tatooine marshal played by Timothy Olyphant. Bo-Katan Kryze is the Mandalorian princess played by Katee Sackhoff. The Mandalorian himself is Din Djarin.

    07

    Order 66 — the secret directive that turns the Republic’s clone troopers against their Jedi commanders and effectively ends the Jedi Order — is dramatised in the climactic third act of which prequel film?




    ✓ Correct! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). Palpatine’s “Execute Order 66” comm to the clone armies leads to the methodical, planet-by-planet liquidation of the Jedi Order — one of the saga’s most operatic sequences, scored to John Williams’ “Anakin’s Betrayal” cue. The same film features Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, the Mustafar duel with Obi-Wan, and his rebirth as Darth Vader in the suit. Widely re-evaluated as the best of the prequels.

    ✗ Wrong. The answer is Revenge of the Sith. Phantom Menace ends with Qui-Gon’s death and the unveiling of Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones ends with the Clone Wars beginning. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope, after Order 66 has long since happened. The Order 66 sequence is the climax of Episode III.

    08

    Andor (2022–25) is widely regarded as the most adult, politically literate Star Wars project ever made — a slow-burn prequel to Rogue One charting Cassian Andor’s radicalisation against the Empire. The series was created and showrun by a writer/director best known for the original Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton. Name him.




    ✓ Correct! Tony Gilroy. He’d previously been brought in for extensive Rogue One reshoots in 2016, and Lucasfilm gave him near-total creative independence on Andor. Season 1 (12 episodes, 2022) is widely regarded as Star Wars’ finest dramatic writing ever; Season 2 (also 12 episodes, in four three-episode jumps across 2025) closes the gap to Rogue One’s opening scene. Gilroy’s prior credits: Bourne Identity / Supremacy / Ultimatum / Legacy, plus directing Michael Clayton (2007).

    ✗ Wrong. The answer is Tony Gilroy. Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi (2017). Jon Favreau created The Mandalorian and is Lucasfilm’s Disney+-era animation/live-action lieutenant. Dave Filoni runs the Filoniverse (Clone Wars, Rebels, Ahsoka, the upcoming Heir to the Empire film). Andor is Tony Gilroy’s.

    The Force Has Spoken · Final Tally
    Your Galactic Standing

    🗡️

    / 8

    Jedi Master — or moisture farmer on Tatooine?

    Some of these cameos are more obvious, while others could be considered among The Mandalorian and Grogu‘s Easter eggs. By either metric, some of the most important figures in the franchise managed to sneak into the Star Wars movie, perhaps without you noticing in a few instances.

    8

    Anthony Daniels

    C-3PO in Star Wars Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker

    Anthony Daniels is Star Wars royalty with his beloved performance as C-3PO. Rather than reprise his role as the golden droid, even if it could have fit thanks to The Mandalorian and Grogu‘s timeline setting, the actor is given a voice cameo. He can be heard on Adelphi Base as one of the air traffic control droids.

    This cameo keeps an unprecedented streak alive, as Daniels remains the only person to have a role in every Star Wars movie. In addition to playing C-3PO in each entry in the Skywalker Saga, as well as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Daniels played Tak in Solo: A Star Wars Story. It might not be another appearance as C-3PO, but Daniels’ cameo at least retains his droid ties.

    7

    Dave Filoni


    Dave Filoni behind the scenes of The Mandalorian
    Dave Filoni behind the scenes of The Mandalorian

    Dave Filoni is now the president and chief creative officer of Lucasfilm, but the co-writer and producer of The Mandalorian and Grogu also gets an on-screen role. He reprises his role as New Republic X-wing pilot Trapper Wolf, a role that originated in The Mandalorian. Filoni played the character in four episodes of the series and can be seen in the movie hanging out at Adelphi Base and piloting his X-wing.

    The cameo marks the first time Filoni has been featured in a Star Wars movie, but his history of appearances goes back much further than The Mandalorian. He voiced multiple characters on The Clone Wars, including bounty hunter Embo, and did the same on Rebels, such as voicing Chopper. Given his history as a writer, director, and producer on various Star Wars projects, cameos like this just increase Filoni’s imprint on the franchise.

    6

    Deborah Chow


    Deborah Chow on the set of The Mandalorian season 1
    Deborah Chow on the set of The Mandalorian season 1

    The Adelphi Base hangar also allows The Mandalorian and Grogu to include a cameo from Deborah Chow. She reprises her role as pilot Sash Ketter, whom she briefly played in seasons 1 and 3 of The Mandalorian.

    Beyond this small recurring role, Chow is best known for her directorial credits in Star Wars. She helmed episodes 3 and 7 of The Mandalorian season 1, which were both widely praised. Chow’s excellent work with those episodes led Lucasfilm to hire her to be the sole director on Obi-Wan Kenobi. Playing Ketter in The Mandalorian and Grogu keeps her part of the galaxy far, far away.

    5

    Rick Famuyiwa


    Rick Famuyiwa on the set of The Mandalorian season 1
    Rick Famuyiwa on the set of The Mandalorian season 1

    Joining Filoni and Chow in the Adelphi Base hangar is fellow The Mandalorian director Rick Famuyiwa. His character, Jib Dodger, is seen chatting it up with the other New Republic pilots. It’s the fourth time Famuyiwa has portrayed the character, following one episode in season 1 and two in season 3.

    Famuyiwa’s contributions to Star Wars come as a director and producer. He directed episodes 2 and 6 of The Mandalorian season 1 and then helmed season 2’s excellent penultimate episode. Famuyiwa gained so much of Jon Favreau’s trust that he was promoted to an executive producer for all of season 3, where he directed the first and last two episodes. Filoni even entrusted him to direct Ahsoka‘s season 1 finale.

    4

    Lee Isaac Chung


    Glen Powell and Lee Isaac Chung on the set of Twisters
    Glen Powell and Lee Isaac Chung on the set of Twisters

    Lee Isaac Chung is another Star Wars director who gets a cameo in The Mandalorian and Grogu. Best known for helming features like Minari and Twisters, Chung is also responsible for directing The Mandalorian season 3, episode 3, and Skeleton Crew season 1, episode 7.

    However, unlike Filoni, Chow, and Famuyiwa, this marks the first time Chung has had an on-screen cameo. He portrays a pilot who is officially credited as Dok Suri and is seen flying a ship in The Mandalorian and Grogu‘s ending.

    3

    Doug Chiang


    Doug Chiang with the Razor Crest model
    Doug Chiang with the Razor Crest model

    The Star Wars movie also provides an on-screen cameo from one of Lucasfilm’s most important creatives, Doug Chiang. He worked for George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic from 1989 to 1995 before Lucas recruited him to be the design director on The Phantom Menace and concept design supervisor on Attack of the Clones. He’s since worked on every Disney Star Wars movie besides The Last Jedi and is currently the Vice President and Creative Director at Lucasfilm.

    Despite that history in the franchise, it took until The Mandalorian and Grogu to get him in front of the camera. He plays Lieutenant Blick, who is another member of the New Republic, in addition to serving as the movie’s production designer.

    2

    Carson Teva


    Carson Teva from The Mandalorian season 3
    Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Carson Teva from The Mandalorian season 3

    The biggest on-screen cameo from a character audiences are most likely to really recognize, though, comes with the appearance of Captain Carson Teva, played by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee. He’s seen flying an X-wing among the movie’s final New Republic squadron on Nal Hutta. It marks the first time Teva has appeared in a Star Wars movie.

    The pilot joined the franchise in The Mandalorian season 2, making appearances in episodes 2 and 4. He then returned for an episode of The Book of Boba Fett, two episodes in The Mandalorian season 3, and three episodes of Ahsoka. While it would’ve been great to get more scenes with Paul Sun-Hyung Lee’s character in the movie, it was still fun to see him again in any capacity.

    1

    Sam Witwer


    Sam Witwer as Agent Liberty in Supergirl
    Sam Witwer as Agent Liberty in Supergirl
    via MovieStillsDB

    It should come as no surprise that Sam Witwer also has a cameo in The Mandalorian and Grogu. The actor known for his passion for and knowledge about the franchise, as well as excellent voice work, is involved in just about every Star Wars production nowadays. Part of his role in this movie comes as the voice of a snowtrooper on Hoth early in the film, but with him credited for “Additional Voices”, more roles may be sprinkled throughout.

    In terms of Star Wars, Witwer is best known for his work as Darth Maul in animated shows like The Clone Wars, Rebels, and Maul – Shadow Lord, as well as for Solo: A Star Wars Story. He was also responsible for portraying Starkiller in the Force Unleashed video game series.

    Overall, he’s lent his vocal cords to shows like Skeleton Crew, The Acolyte, Ahsoka, Andor season 1, The Mandalorian​​​​​​, and Star Wars: Resistance, as well as video games like Star Wars: Squadrons and the Star Wars Jedi franchise. Thanks to his credited work in The Mandalorian and Grogu, Witwer can officially say he’s been part of every Disney Star Wars movie.



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    Release Date

    May 22, 2026
    Runtime

    132 Minutes




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