Hamill was digitally de-aged to reprise his role as Luke Skywalker in the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian. Hamill also has a brief vocal cameo in The Last Jedi as a droid as well as in Rogue One and Solo: A Star Wars Story in undisclosed roles, for which he was credited as "William M.
Hamill later expressed regret for having made those statements, calling the film an "all-time great", and reprised his role as Skywalker again in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Hamill was initially critical of his own role in the film, stating that he and director Rian Johnson had "a fundamental difference" on Skywalker's characterization. Hamill played Skywalker again in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, released on December 15, 2017. In September 2013, Hamill's friend Robert Englund confirmed that "they've got Mark in the gym because Mark's coming back as Luke Skywalker." Despite having top billing, Hamill only appears briefly at the end of the film (with no dialogue) in a cliffhanger set-up for the sequel. It was reported that Hamill had been assigned a nutritionist and personal trainer to work with ahead of production. Initially, both Disney and Hamill were coy about whether Hamill would be a cast member of The Force Awakens. With the acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company, a Disney press release was announced that there would be more Star Wars films starting with The Force Awakens, which was released on December 18, 2015. Mark Hamill in 2017, at the premiere of The Last Jedi. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for his performance.
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Hamill returned to the Star Wars universe in 2014, when he voiced the ancient Sith Lord Darth Bane, in the last episode of season 6 of the animated series The Clone Wars. Įditions of Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces (which influenced Lucas as he was developing the films) issued after the release of Star Wars in 1977 used the image of Hamill as Luke Skywalker on the cover. For the Return of the Jedi radio drama, the role was played by a different actor. Hamill reprised the role of Luke Skywalker for the radio dramatizations of both Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. For both of the sequels, Hamill was honored with the Saturn Award for Best Actor given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. False rumors spread that he required plastic surgery on his face. During the time between the first two films, Hamill was involved in a serious automobile accident, fracturing his nose and left cheekbone. Hamill also appeared in the less-than-successful Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978 and later starred in the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Released in May 1977, Star Wars was an enormous, unexpected success and had a huge effect on the film industry. He suggested to Hamill that he audition for the role as it turned out, Hamill's agent had already set up the audition that gave him the role. After watching the auditions for a while, he realized that Hamill, his friend, would be perfect for the role of Luke Skywalker. Robert Englund was auditioning for a role in Apocalypse Now when he walked across the hall where auditions were taking place for George Lucas's Star Wars. He later enrolled at Los Angeles City College, majoring in drama.
Kinnick High School, from which he graduated in 1969. By his junior year, his father was stationed in Japan, where Hamill attended and was a member of the Drama Club at Nile C. During his first year at James Madison High School in San Diego, his family moved back to Virginia, and Hamill attended Annandale High School. At age 11, he moved to the 5900 block of Castleton Drive in San Diego, California, where he attended Hale Junior High School. In his elementary years, he went to Walsingham Academy in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Edgar Allen Poe Middle School in Annandale, Virginia. His father's changes of station and attendant family moves led to the Hamill children switching schools often. Hamill has described his father as a staunch Roman Catholic, and " Nixon Republican". His father has English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry and his mother was of half Swedish and half English descent. He is one of seven children, having two brothers, Will and Patrick, and four sisters, Terry, Jan, Jeanie, and Kim. Mark Richard Hamill was born on Septemin Oakland, California, to Virginia Suzanne ( née Johnson) and U.S.