Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Cast
Meet the Cast
Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)
In case you haven't already met our good pal Luke Skywalker, then go ahead and check out his character analysis section in A New Hope and get back to us. The story goes like this: A small-town boy...
Darth Vader (David Prowse)
Although Darth Vader remains the physical manifestation of pure evil, The Empire Strikes Back gives us a few glimpses of the human beneath that shiny black helmet.Bad to the Mechanically Reconstruc...
Han Solo (Harrison Ford)
Luke Skywalker might still be hogging the spotlight, but Han Solo goes on a hero's journey of his own in The Empire Strikes Back. When we think about Han's growth from selfish smuggler to a selfles...
Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher)
As royalty, Princess Leia has been raised to handle high stakes political conflicts with the greatest of ease… which is why she's such a kick-butt leader for the Rebel Alliance. Despite this obvi...
Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch)
We loved Boba Fett as kids, but even we have to admit that the dude only exists to sell action figures. Vader gives him money, he hunts down Han, and then he brings Han's frozen body to Jabba the H...
C-3PO (Anthony Daniels)
The inseparable duo of C-3PO and R2-D2 get, well, separated, in The Empire Strikes Back. Instead of the odd couple dynamic we saw in A New Hope, we get two distinct characters. Double your pleasure...
R2-D2 (Kenny Baker)
In A New Hope, C-3PO and R2-D2 were our gateways into the Star Wars universe. This was a deliberate choice: Lucas created these characters as audience stand-ins of a sort, placing them in every sce...
Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew)
Chewbacca might be one of our favorite fictional characters of all-time, so we're sorry to say that he doesn't play a big role in The Empire Strikes Back. He spends the bulk of the film trying (and...
Emperor (Clive Revill)
The evil Emperor Palpatine pops up a few times in The Empire Strikes Back, but he remains a vague, other-worldly figure, leaving the muscleman Darth Vader to take care of the dirty work.This is act...
Lando (Billy Dee Williams)
In many ways, Lando Calrissian is a mirror image of Han Solo, a parallel universe version of our favorite smuggler. By the end of the film, however, the differences between these two men only give...
Yoda (Frank Oz)
A character analysis you seek, eh? Hrrrm? Patience you must have, young Shmooper.Now that we've gotten that out of our system (we've been practicing our Yoda impression since the third grade) let's...