The 22-year-old, classically trained British actor made his feature debut as a gang member who has to defend his South London 'hood from aliens in the sci-fi comedy Attack the Block in 2011 and hasn't had much time for stage work since.
Star Wars 7 will be the British beauty's big-budget feature debut, with her sole film credit to date being the as-yet released indie horror film Scrawl. She may also look familiar from the ITV series Mr Selfridge, starring Jeremy Piven, and the U.K.'s Toast of London and Silent Witness.
The 30-year-old Irish actor and soon-to-be household-name heartthrob is a Tony-nominated Broadway star, but best known in the U.S. so far for playing Ron's hunky, dragon-training brother Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter series and for romancing Rachel McAdams in About Time. Brendan Gleeson (that's Professor Moody to Potter fans) is his dad.
The Guatemalan-born, Juilliard-educated singer-songwriter-actor joins the Star Wars cast fresh from his critically acclaimed role as a struggling folk artist in the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis.
Now best known as Lena Dunham's jerky off-and-on-again beau in Girls, for which he was nominated for an Emmy, the 30-year-old actor has also appeared on the big screen in J. Edgar, Lincoln and Inside Llewyn Davis. From out of the past and lightspeed ahead into the future!
Director J.J. Abrams knows he's got a flexible performer in Serkis, who set the standard for motion-capture characters with his roles as Gollum in the LOTR and The Hobbit series and the titular ape in King Kong. He's also won acclaim for his roles as a real live guy in the British series Longford and the Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.
He may look less gold and shiny in person, but the 68-year-old British actor's voice—fluent in over 6 million forms of communication—is unmistakably that of protocol droid, C-3PO.
C3PO can't be without his R2-D2! The now 79-year-old British actor has also been welcomed back to the fold.
The Swedish-born actor, 85, has worked with the likes of Ingmar Bergman (he played chess with Death in The Seventh Seal), Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg, but will also forever be remembered for his role as a demon-fighting priest in The Exorcist. He also spoke volumes without saying a word in 2011's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, for which he earned his second Oscar nom.
The veteran actress will ever be a sex symbol and no one will ever not be able to hold two buns up on either side of one's head when given the chance thanks to Fisher's iconic role as Princess Leia. The 57-year-old performer and author was recently onstage in the one-woman show based on her best-selling memoir Wishful Drinking.
Luke Skywalker himself is back! The 62-year-old actor remains best known for his place in the Star Wars universe but has appeared in a number of TV shows and had a recurring role on General Hospital. He memorably voiced the role of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and reprised the character in spin-offs and video games.
Now he looks familiar. Still sexy at 71, the veteran star will reprise the role of Han Solo, the part that instantly made him a Hollywood heartthrob and go-to action hero.
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