Watch out for SPOILERS for this week’s episode of Star Wars: Ahsoka, “Far, Far Away.”
Actress Claudia Black is officially a part of Star Wars canon, with a surprise appearance in this week’s new episode of Star Wars: Ahsoka.
Black played the lead Nightsister in the episode “Far, Far Away.” The Nightsisters of Dathomir are a coven of powerful witches first introduced into the modern canon in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Black plays one of their distant relatives in another galaxy.
Because they are helping Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) rebuild his forces to return as heir to the empire, expect to see Black’s character again in the season’s final two episodes.
Claudia Black was already sci-fi royalty before joining the Star Wars franchise. She was Officer Aeryn Sun on Farscape, and also co-starred in the 2000 film Pitch Black. After guest starring on Stargate SG-1 in the show’s eighth and ninth seasons, in 2006 she joined the regular cast for Season Ten, as Vala Mal Doran.
Claudia Black as the Nightsister (Star Wars: Ahsoka)
By our count Black is the fifth actor from the Stargate franchise who went on to appear in a Star Wars production. That rare company includes SGU‘s Ming-Na Wen (The Mandalorian‘s Fennec Shand), Bra’tac actor Tony Amendola (Jedi Master Eno Cordova in Jedi: Fallen Order), “Whispers” guest star Janina Gavankar (Iden Versio in Star Wars: Battlefront II), and Philip Alexander, who played Captain James Beal on Stargate Origins before going on to appear as an Imperial security officer on The Mandalorian.
There’s another familiar face from contemporary sci-fi hiding in the episode. Captain Enoch, the golden-faced leader of Thrawn’s Storm Trooper army, is played by actor Wes Chatham. He’s better known to The Expanse fans as Amos.
Star Wars: Ahsoka streams new episodes Tuesdays on Disney+.
Sci fi royalty
Indeed
Watched that and didn’t even know it was her lol. Did she do something different with her hair?
The Night sisters did not originate in the Clone Wars series, they first appeared in the novel the courtship of Princess Leia by David Wolverton published 1994. Like most things in Disney Star Wars they stole from more talented writers because they have no originality themselves. Horribly written drivel that is a pale shadow of the characters from the original story.
Even further back in Ewoks: Battle for Endor… although Dathomir wasn’t specifically mentioned
Distant relatives, not “ancestors.”
Hide that droid fella voiced by David Tennant (Can’t remember his name) ! Because she was also Admiral Daro’Xen in Mass Effect. An Admiral with a love for dissecting robots !