Keira Knightley, Tom Hardy and 28 Other Actors You Probably

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The “Star Wars” franchise — now 4 a long time younger — is stuffed with secret cameos, soon-to-be-famous actors in small bit elements, and well-known faces behind alien masks and make-up. Here are 30 large names hidden all through the franchise you won’t have recognized about.  

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John Ratzenberger (“The Empire Strikes Back”) Ratzenberger is finest remembered as know-it-all postman Cliff Clavin from “Cheers,” or possibly his quite a few voice roles in Pixar motion pictures. In “The Empire Strikes Back,” Ratzenberger is without doubt one of the Rebel officers hanging round Echo Base on Hoth with Princess Leia and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels).

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Treat Williams (“The Empire Strikes Back”)  When you are Treat Williams, you’ll be able to wander onto the set of “The Empire Strikes Back” and end up within the film. Williams reportedly dropped by England’s Elstree Studios set, the place the film was being filmed, to go to Carrie Fisher. Apparently one factor led to a different, and now Williams performs one of many Rebel troops operating round Echo Base on Hoth.

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Julian Glover (“The Empire Strikes Back”)  Julian Glover’s General Veers might be essentially the most competent officer obtainable to Darth Vader as wanders the galaxy on the lookout for the Rebels and Luke Skywalker. He’d be decidedly much less competent as Grand Maester Pycelle on “Game of Thrones,” however decidedly extra evil as Nazi collaborator Walter Donovan in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (you realize — the man who ages tremendous quick after consuming from the fallacious grail).

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Tony Cox (“Return of the Jedi”)  In an Ewok go well with, you’d by no means know Tony Cox appeared in “Return of the Jedi.” He would not actually showcase his performing chops till later when he was stealing scenes throughout comedies like “Bad Santa,” the place he was Billy Bob Thornton’s much-smarter mall-robbing confederate/Christmas elf, and “Me, Myself and Irene.”

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Deep Roy (“Return of the Jedi”)  It’s best to recollect Deep Roy within the Johnny Depp-starring “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” since Roy performed each orange oompa-loompa in that film. In “Return of the Jedi,” he was each an Ewok and the puffy alien band member Droopy McCool in Jabba’s Palace. Deep Roy additionally labored on “The Empire Strikes Back,” performing as a stand-in for the muppet Yoda.

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Keira Knightley (“The Phantom Menace”)  Knightley wasn’t simply any handmaiden in “The Phantom Menace” — she was the handmaiden. Serving because the decoy for the actual queen, Knightley was the actress folks thought was Amidala for half the film, earlier than Natalie Portman’s Padmé revealed her true identification.

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Peter Serafinowicz (“The Phantom Menace”)  Marvel Cinematic Universe followers will acknowledge Peter Seafinowicz for his flip as untrusting Nova Corps officer Garthan Saal in “Guardians of the Galaxy.” He did not seem in “The Phantom Menace,” however supplied the gravely, scary voice of Darth Maul (the remainder of whom was performed by Ray Park), in addition to for a gungan warrior and a battle droid.

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Dominic West (“The Phantom Menace”)  The…