When you ’re reach a new Star Wars film , you have every resource available to you . And , judging by the diaphanous volume of people who demonstrate up to provide acting , vox acting , musical , and other talent to The Force Awakens , J.J. Abrams took reward of them all .
Mild Force Awakens looter come after .
Despite the film amount out months ago , it palpate like we ’re still constantly finding out that intimate names contributed to The Force Awakens . Rather than
The Obvious
Simon Pegg as Unkar Plutt
Pegg ’s liaison was confirmed early on , but it was n’t until The Force Awakens that we fall upon Pegg was stuffed into a giant suit to meet Unkar Plutt , the junk - honcho of Jakku .
Greg Grunberg as Snap Wexley
It was probably never in doubt that Grunberg , JJ Abrams ’ childhood friend and unspoilt fortune magical spell . would be part of TFA . Grunberg kill up in passably much every Abrams project , and this was no exclusion . He play X - Wing pilot burner Snap Wexley , a character with a backstorydetailed in the tie - in novel Aftermath .
Billie Lourd as Lt . Connix
Carrie Fisher ’s daughter can be hear in the background of the Resistance Qaeda on D’Qar . As Lt . Connix , Lourd sport a rather familiar hairstyle .
Thomas Brodie - Sangster as First Order Petty Officer Thanisson
Brodie - Sangster , resplendent in a First Order uniform , is pretty recognizable as Jojen Reed from Game of Thrones . ( Also Maze Runner and Phineas and Ferb ) He is not the only person from Game of Thrones to appear on this list .
Jessica Henwick as Jessika Pava
Speaking of : Nymeria Sand herself shows up in The Force Awakens . Henwick plays a character with a voluminous identification number of names . Wookiepedialists her as Jessika Pava , “ also known as Jess or Testor , ” so let ’s go with that . Jess is another 10 - Wing pilot light , Blue Three , from the Starkiller assault .
Ken Leung as Admiral Statura
From the huge companionship of people who have act upon on Abrams productions before , Leung was Miles on Lost , but he is beloved by us for being Leon on Person of Interest . He shows up to help oneself project the ravishment on Starkiller .
skirt Harriet Walter as Dr. Kalonia
Downton Abbey ’s Lady Shackleton demonstrate up to help patch up Chewbacca . In a vaguely patronizing way , I felt . Incidentally , Walter is also the niece of Christopher “ Count Dooku ” Lee .
The Less Obvious
Yayan Ruhian , Iko Uwais , and Cecep Arif Rahman as Tasu Leech , Razoo Qin - Fee and Crokind Shand
These The Raid cast members picture up as members of Kanjiklub , one of the sea robber group Han Solo owed money to . Because of course he owe money . He always owe money . Ruhian and Uwais were both also credited as battle choreographers on the film .
Brian Vernel as Bala - Tik
On the other side of Solo was Bala - Tik of the Guavian Death Gang , play by The Last Kingdom ’s Odda the Younger .
Stefan Grube as Yolo Ziff
Grube not only edited together the trailer for The Force Awakens , he also appear as , what else ? An X - Wing pilot . Grube ’s Yolo Ziff was the pilot burner to detect the jam in the thermal oscillator created by the team on Starkiller .
Mark Stanley as a Knight of Ren
Yet another Game of Thrones alum , Stanley play Grenn there and played one of the Knights of Ren .
Emun Elliott as Brance
Game of Thrones strikes again , as Elliot trifle Marillion in that show and was one of the pilots in Prometheus . In The Force Awakens , Elliot played a fellow member of the underground with one line : “ A optical maser shank ? ”
Andrew Jack as Caluan Ematt
You might not acknowledge his name , but you have credibly heard his work . Jack has overone hundred creditsas a dialect coach , including on The Force Awakens and Rogue One . In the moving picture , Jack play Ematt , an officer who oppose in the original Galactic Civil War and was recruited into the Resistance . The character reference appeared in both junior novels released for Force Friday , Smuggler ’s Run : A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure and Moving Target : A Princess Leia Adventure .
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Maz Kanata’s Castle
After Stormtroopers , and next to 10 - Wing pilots , the patrons of Maz Kanata ’s also obtain a number of surprises . And , if past experience with Mos Eisley is any indication , each one of them will have a narration write about them in the association - in materials .
Warwick Davis as Wollivan
Davis , with his tenacious vocation , return to the Star Wars enfranchisement after play the Ewok Wicket in Return of the Jedi and three disjoined characters in The Phantom Menace to play the phallus - faced Wollivan in Maz Kanata ’s place .
Miltos Yerolemou as a Browning automatic rifle patron
And we ’re right back to Game of Thrones with Yerolemou , who was Arya ’s buff favorite sword instructor Syrio Forel . He showed up somewhere in the brouhaha of Maz Kanata ’s .
Judah Friedlander as a streak patron
Another one who has n’t been specifically describe is 30 Rock ’s Friedlander , also hanging out at the bar .
D.C. Barnes as a bar patron
Remember the Force for modification competition ? Donating to Unicef enter fan in a raffle to win a walk - on part in The Force Awakens . Thewinnerwas D.C. Barnes , whose prize put him in a black cloak in the taproom .
Mark Dodson
Hey , did the laugh gamers sound familiar to anyone ? They should have , since Dodson provided their laugh and also voice the screeching nightmare / Jabba best-loved Salacious Crumb .
Meredith Salenger
Salenger ’s interpreter is likely best bonk to fans as Barriss Offee ’s . But she also vocalise a Resistance technician who interrupts Leia .
Dee Bradley Baker
Probably not a shock that the voice worker who played a routine of clone troopers on Clone Wars and Rebels — most notably Cody and Rex — also exhibit up in Episode VII . A turn of voice role player from the liven up appearance got a chance to be in this cinema , but only one got thecoveted roleof “ Alien Villager at gunpoint from two stormtroopers ( Yells and Screams ) . ” Congrats , Baker .
Catherine Taber
Also from that group is Taber , who provided Padmé Amidala ’s voice . She was the First Order officer who tell Hux the weapon is charging .
Tom Kane
The alive voice of Yoda split his sentence between being a command way technician on Starkiller and a Hosnian watching that base ’s arm mottle through the sky at his system .
Friends and Family
A few people close to the cast and bunch see themselves in the film .
J.J. Abrams ’ help Morgan Dameron as Commodore Meta
As recompense for steal her last name for Poe Dameron , J.J. Abrams ’ help was in the film with the winkiest of winky name with “ Meta . ”
Gerry Abrams as Captain Cypress
The director ’s father play a Resistance captain in the film .
Oscar Isaac ’s uncle
On The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon , Oscar Isaactold the storyabout how he brought his uncle , a huge Star Wars fan to set . His uncle showed up with t - shirts for everyone and Abrams put up him a desktop role . A bleary photo on Jimmy Kimmelshowedthat Isaac ’s uncle is somewhere in the First Order onslaught on Jakku .
Stormtroopers
Want to cameo in Star Wars ? Be a stormtrooper . Literally anyone can be a stormtrooper .
Daniel Craig
At this dot , it ’s fairly well - know that the stormtrooper that Rey gets one over on wasplayed by Daniel Craig .
Michael Giaccchino
Composer and longtime Abrams henchman Michael Giacchino did n’t get to score the film . But he did appear in a stormtrooper costume as FN-3181 .
Nigel Godrich
Another melodic stormtrooper was Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich , whose designation was FN-9330 .
Pip Anderson
The professional freerunner and parkour creative person known as “ Piptrix ” leant his accomplishment to a Sony Spider - Man commercial message before play a stormtrooper . Not only is he credited as “ chair stormtrooper , ” Anderson ’s stormtrooper is FN-2003 ( “ Slip ” ) , a booster of Poe ’s from the Before the Awakening anthology .
Kevin Smith
Force Awakens sound editor Matthew Wood posted a list of line and who read them ( including that a few actor cameos are going to continue secret for a second ) . In that list , he revealed a ton of stormtroopers , including Smith . The super - nerd podcaster and director voiced a stormtrooper in the assault on Takodana . He has the unmarried line , “ We have incoming at 28.6 ! Move ! ”
Sam Witwer
The valet de chambre who voice Darth Maul and Palpatine in The Clone Wars and Rebels was all over The Force Awakens . He voiced stormtroopers on Jakku , Takodana , and Starkiller . He also voiced few PA announcements on a Star Destroyer and on the radio when Poe and Finn slip a TIE .
James Arnold Taylor
Continuing this run on phonation actors from the animated shows , Taylor ’s switch sides . In the alive public , he ’s Obi - Wan Kenobi ; in bouncy - action , he ’s a number of Stormtroopers .
Matt Lanter
And here comes Anakin ! Lanter vocalize Stormtroopers on Takodana and Starkiller . Also , he reacted to Unkar Plutt offer 60 constituent for BB-8 with “ high - cant ” noises .
Fred Tatasciore
Tatasciore play Tarpals on Clone Wars and Boss Yushyn on Rebels . In The Force Awakens he gets to put Finn into custody .
Michael Donovan
The prolific Lego Star Wars voice player also showed up as a stormtrooper .
Matthew Wood
The sound editor and other members of the sound team provided a bunch of require vocalisation to the film . Ellen Price Wood has telling range , playing stormtroopers , scavenger , hired thug , the death yell of the Guavian Death Gang , Big Head offering oeuvre to Finn , and the 10 - Wing pilot / Beastie Boys shout - out Ello Asty .
Returners
Tim Rose and Erik Bauersfeld ( vox )
Admiral Ackbar appear very briefly in The Force Awakens , and the original Return of the Jedi actors returned to once again make for the immortal trap announcer to lifetime .
Mike Quinn and Kipsang Rotich ( voice )
The same deal with Nien Nunb , as both his original body and voice returned to cameo in The Force Awakens and to vaporize a snubfighter .
Ewan McGregor , Frank Oz , and Alec Guiness
After the movie came out , welearnedthat Rey ’s vision was n’t just old footage and dialogue . McGregor and Oz recorded refreshful vocals for the sequence , while Guiness saying “ afraid ” was cut to him enunciate , “ Rey . ” Unfortunately for all of us , a lot of firebrand new lines recorded by Oz were eventually cut .
Kiran Shah as Teedo
In Return of the Jedi , Kiran Shah was an Ewok stunt double and the droid crush to death in Jabba ’s castle . He returned to play Teedo the scavenger in The Force Awakens . Rey saves BB-8 from him .
The behind-the-scenes help
Not all conversant or important mass played Star Wars fibre . There were also a number of behind - the - scenes piece of work .
Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz as BB-8 voice consultants
hand BB-8 a personality was apparently more work than you ’d think . Schwartz toldSlatethat he record lines that were what he thought BB-8 would “ say ” in each scene into a microphone hook up to Abrams ’ computer . Hader was a fiddling more direct , tellingHitfixthat his role consisted of , “ JJ roll in the hay around with this sound effects app on his iPad that was attached to a talk box operated by me . It looked farcical but it made BB-8 ’s vocalism . ” Just render to do a droid voice sounded too “ human . ”
Lin - Manuel Miranda
Creator and star of the Broadway juggernaut Hamilton provided the music and vocals for Maz Kanata ’s bar . It all came about because Miranda jokingly told Abrams that if there was a cantina scene to let him know . Miranda toldVulturehe compose it with Abrams , “ We had one form of music file that we shared back - and - forth . I ’d spell stuff , and then he ’d add together clobber , and I ’d take out some of his clobber and add some of mine . It was a joyous collaboration . ”
Gustavo Dudamel
The music director of the LA Philharmonic stopped by the scoring point to conduct the opening and close titles for John Williams . I remember thinking , ‘ He ’s joking , ’ ” Dudamelsaid .
Phil Tippett and his squad for holochess
Visual effects legend andwalking memePhil Tippett created the original stop - apparent motion vivification for the dejarik holochess game in A New Hope . So when the board was reactivated in The Force Awakens , Tippett and his team wason hand once again .
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