Actors From Both Star Wars and The Marvel Cinematic Universe

1. Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...

Han Solo

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

Thaddeus Ross (Red Hulk)

Captain America: Brave New World
Thunderbolts

2. Natalie Portman

Actress | Black Swan

Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).

Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...

Padmé Amidala

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Jane Foster (Mighty Thor)

Thor
Thor: The Dark World
What If…?
Thor: Love and Thunder

3. Samuel L. Jackson

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...

Mace Windu

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Movie Only)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (Voice Only)

Nick Fury

Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Avengers
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Avengers: Infinity War
Captain Marvel
Avengers: Endgame
Spider-Man: Far from Home
What If…?
Secret Invasion
The Marvels

4. Peter Serafinowicz

Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy

Peter Szymon Serafinowicz is an English actor, comedian, director and screenwriter, best known for his roles as the title character in the 2016 live-action series of The Tick, Pete in Shaun of the Dead (2004) and as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). He has...

Darth Maul (Voice Only)

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Garthan Saal

Guardians of the Galaxy
What If...?

5. Richard Armitage

Actor | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Richard Crispin Armitage was born and raised in Leicester, England, to Margaret (Hendey), a secretary, and John Armitage, an engineer. He attended Pattison College in Binley Road, Coventry, where he discovered his love for acting. He took part in many theatre productions all over the UK, from ...

Naboo Fighter Pilot

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Heinz Kruger

Captain America: The First Avenger

6. Fred Tatasciore

Actor | Team America: World Police

Fred Tatasciore is a voice actor/animator known for his work in film, television and games. He can be heard regularly on Fox's "Family Guy," "American Dad," and "The Cleveland Show." He plays Aaarggggh! and many characters on the new show, "Trollhunters" (for Netflix by Guillermo Del Torro), For ...

Qui-Gon Jinn and Oppo Rancisis

Star Wars: Clone Wars

Roos Tarpals

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Boss Yushyn and Mining Guild Guard

Star Wars Rebels

Various Characters

Star Wars Resistance

Corvus Glaive, Drax, Volstagg and Groot

What If…?

7. Jon Favreau

Producer | Chef

Initially an indie film favorite, actor Jon Favreau has progressed to strong mainstream visibility into the millennium and, after nearly two decades in the business, is still enjoying character stardom as well as earning notice as a writer/producer/director.

The amiable, husky-framed actor with the ...

Happy Hogan

Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Avengers: Infinity War (Deleted Scene)
Avengers: Endgame
Spider-Man: Far from Home
What If…?
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Pre Vizsla

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Rio Durant

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Paz Vizsla

The Mandalorian
The Book of Boba Fett

8. Paul Bettany

Actor | WandaVision

Paul Bettany is an English actor. He first came to the attention of mainstream audiences when he appeared in the British film Gangster No. 1 (2000), and director Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale (2001). He has gone on to appear in a wide variety of films, including A Beautiful Mind (2001), ...

J.A.R.V.I.S.

Iron Man
Iron Man 2
The Avengers
Iron Man 3
Avengers: Age of Ultron
What If…?

Vision

Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: Civil War
Avengers: Infinity War
WandaVision
What If…?

Dryden Vos

Solo: A Star Wars Story

9. Seth Green

Actor | Robot Chicken

Seth Green has starred in numerous films and television series including the Austin Powers trilogy, The Italian Job (2003), Without a Paddle (2004), Party Monster (2003), Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Old Dogs (2009) and dozens more, including starring roles in Sexy Evil Genius (2013), The Story of Luke...

Todo 360

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Ion Papanoida

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Captain Seevor

Star Wars Rebels

Expo Fan

Iron Man 2

Howard the Duck

Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
What If…?
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

10. Clancy Brown

Actor | The Shawshank Redemption

A tall, wavy-haired US actor with a deep, resonant voice, Clancy Brown has proven himself a versatile performer with first-class contributions to theatre, feature films, television series and even animation.

Clarence J. Brown III was born in 1959 in Urbana, Ohio, to Joyce Helen (Eldridge), a concert...

Savage Opress

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Ryder Azadi

Star Wars Rebels
Ahsoka

Burg

The Mandalorian

Inquisitor

Tales of the Jedi

Ray Schoonover

Daredevil
The Punisher

Surtur

Thor: Ragnarok
What If…?

11. Stellan Skarsgård

Actor | Good Will Hunting

Stellan Skarsgård was born in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Gudrun (Larsson) and Jan Skarsgård. He became a star in his teens through the title role in the TV-series Bombi Bitt och jag (1968). Between the years 1972-88 he was employed at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where...

Erik Selvig

Thor
The Avengers
Thor: The Dark World
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Thor: Love and Thunder

Luthen Rael

Andor

12. Ray Stevenson

Actor | The Three Musketeers

An imposing figure (standing at 6'3") with intense, penetrating eyes and possessed of a larger-than-life personality, the actor George Raymond Stevenson began life as one of three sons, born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to a British pilot in the Royal Air Force. Raised near Newcastle in ...

Volstagg

Thor
Thor: The Dark World
Thor: Ragnarok

Gar Saxon

Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Baylan Skoll

Ahsoka

13. Titus Welliver

Actor | The Town

Titus Welliver was born on March 12, 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was a famous landscape painter, Neil Welliver. His mother was a fashion illustrator, Norma Cripps. He has three brothers, one was killed overseas. He was raised in Philadelphia and New York City, surrounded by poets and...

Felix Blake

Marvel One-Shot: Item 47
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Imperial Captain

The Mandalorian

14. Ming-Na Wen

Actress | Mulan

Ming-Na ("enlightenment") was born on the island of Macau, forty miles from Hong Kong. Her mother, Lin Chan Wen, divorced her father when Ming-Na was only a toddler. She has an older brother named Jonathan. After the divorce, they moved to Hong Kong where her mother became a nurse. There her mother...

Melinda May

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Fennec Shand

The Mandalorian
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
The Book of Boba Fett

15. Benicio Del Toro

Actor | Sicario

Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).

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Taneleer Tivan (The Collector)

Thor: The Dark World
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers: Infinity War
What If…?

DJ

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

16. Lucy Lawless

Actress | Xena: Warrior Princess

New Zealand icon Lucy Lawless is most known for her role as "Xena the Warrior Princess." Lucy is married to producer Rob Tapert (Robert Gerard Tapert) and resides in New Zealand. They have two sons, Julius Robert Bay Tapert and Judah Miro Tapert, who were both born in New Zealand. Lucy also has a ...

Isabelle Hartley

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Aeosian Queen

Star Wars Resistance

17. Brian Tee

Actor | Expats

Brian Tee will star opposite Nicole Kidman in the prestige limited series "Expats," as "Clarke Woo" husband to "Margaret" (Kidman), directed by the acclaimed Lulu Wang for Amazon Prime. Tee also stared as Dr. Ethan Choi, on NBC's hit drama "Chicago Med," produced by Dick Wolf and won a 2020 NAMIC ...

Toshiro Mori

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Ronin

Star Wars: Visions

18. Rosario Dawson

Actress | Rent

This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television (the series Gemini Division (2008), which she executive-produced), and animated voice-overs. Dawson's powerhouse talent stands out the most in edgy...

Claire Temple

Daredevil
Jessica Jones
Luke Cage
Iron Fist
The Defenders

Ahsoka Tano

The Mandalorian
The Book of Boba Fett
Ahsoka

19. Andy Serkis

Actor | War for the Planet of the Apes

English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), ...

Ulysses Klaue

Avengers: Age of Ultron
Black Panther
What If…?

Supreme Leader Snoke

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (Voiceover Only)

Kino Loy

Andor

20. Oscar Isaac

Actor | Ex Machina

Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, María Eugenia, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. Oscar was raised in Miami, Florida. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking ...

Poe Dameron

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
Star Wars Resistance
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

Marc Spector (Moon Knight) / Steven Grant (Mr. Knight) / Jake Lockley

Moon Knight

21. Lupita Nyong'o

Actress | 12 Years a Slave

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science. She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to...

Maz Kanata

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

Nakia

Black Panther
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

22. Ken Leung

Actor | Old

Ken Leung was raised in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side in New York City. His family moved to Midwood, Brooklyn where he grew up before finishing high school in Old Bridge, New Jersey. He attended NYU and studied acting with Catherine Russell and Nan Smithner, then briefly with Anne ...

Admiral Statura

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Karnak

Inhumans

23. Jessica Henwick

Actress | The Royal Hotel

Jessica Yu Li Henwick is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Nymeria Sand in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011), X-wing pilot Jessika Pava in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Colleen Wing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, making her debut in the Netflix television series Iron...

Jess "Testor" Pava

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Colleen Wing

Iron Fist
The Defenders
Luke Cage

24. Hannah John-Kamen

Actress | Ant-Man and the Wasp

Hannah Dominique E. John-Kamen is a British actress. She is known for her roles as Dutch in the Syfy television series Killjoys, Ornela in the HBO series Game of Thrones, F'Nale Zandor in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, and Ghost in Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Hannah was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, ...

First Order Officer

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Ava Starr (Ghost)

Ant-Man and the Wasp
Thunderbolts

25. Jim Rash

Actor | The Way Way Back

Jim Rash was born on July 15, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Way Way Back (2013), Community (2009) and The Descendants (2011).

Dean of M.I.T.

Captain America: Civil War
Ironheart

Flix

Star Wars Resistance

26. Theo Rossi

Actor | Emily the Criminal

Theo Rossi was born in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA. Theo is an actor and producer, known for Emily the Criminal (2022), Sons of Anarchy (2008) and Army of the Dead (2021). Theo has been married to Meghan McDermott since November 17, 2014. They have two children.

Hernan "Shades" Alvarez

Luke Cage

Senator Larik

Tales of the Jedi

27. Mads Mikkelsen

Actor | Hannibal

Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.

Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew ...

Kaecilius

Doctor Strange

Galen Erso

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

28. Ben Mendelsohn

Actor | Rogue One

Despite his prominence in Hollywood as a character actor known for playing villains and criminals, Ben Mendelsohn has been a leading man in Australia since starting acting as a teenager.

Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Carole Ann (Ferguson), a nurse, and Frederick ...

Orson Krennic

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Talos

Captain Marvel
Spider-Man: Far from Home
Secret Invasion

29. Forest Whitaker

Actor | The Last King of Scotland

Forest Steven Whitaker has packaged a king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2", 220 lb. frame. He won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland (2006), and has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American male to...

Saw Gererra

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars Rebels
Andor

Zuri

Black Panther

30. Donald Glover

Actor | Solo: A Star Wars Story

The multi-talented Donald Glover is a writer, actor, musician, comedian, producer and director, who performs under the stage names Childish Gambino and mcDJ. He was born Donald McKinley Glover at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His mother, Beverly (...

Aaron Davis

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Lando Calrissian

Solo: A Star Wars Story

31. Karl Urban

Actor | Star Trek

Originally from Wellington, New Zealand, Karl Urban now lives in Auckland. Born on June 7, 1972, he is the son of a leather-goods manufacturer (who had hoped that Karl would follow in his footsteps). His first acting role was when he was 8 -- he had a line on a television series. However, he did ...

Skurge

Thor: Ragnarok

Stormtrooper

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

32. Taika Waititi

Producer | What We Do in the Shadows

Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and is the son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waititi, an artist and farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish...

Korg

Thor: Ragnarok
Avengers: Endgame
What If…?
Thor: Love and Thunder

Surtur (Motion Capture)

Thor: Ragnarok

Ninny the Nonnie

Thor: Love and Thunder

IG-11

The Mandalorian

33. Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Actor | Girls

Ebon Moss-Bachrach is an American actor best known for playing the role of David Lieberman in The Punisher and Desi Harperin in Girls. He was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is the son of Renee Moss and Eric Bachrach, who run a music school in Springfield, Massachusetts. He attended high school...

David Lieberman (Micro)

The Punisher

Ben Grimm (The Thing)

The Fantastic Four

Arvel Skeen

Andor

34. Alden Ehrenreich

Actor | Hail, Caesar!

Alden Ehrenreich is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's film Tetro (2009), and appeared in Coppola's subsequent film Twixt (2011).

In 2013, he starred as Ethan Wate in the film adaptation of the novel Beautiful Creatures (2013). He then played the stepson of ...

Han Solo

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Joe McGillicuddy

Ironheart

35. Emilia Clarke

Actress | Game of Thrones

British actress Emilia Clarke was born in London and grew up in Oxfordshire, England. Her father was a theatre sound engineer and her mother is a businesswoman. Her father was working on a theatre production of "Show Boat" and her mother took her along to the performance. This is when, at the age ...

Qi'ra

Solo: A Star Wars Story

G’iah

Secret Invasion

36. Erin Kellyman

Actress | The Green Knight

Erin Mae Kellyman (born 17 October 1998) is a British actress. Kellyman appears as Enfys Nest, leader of the rebel Cloud Riders, in Solo: A Star Wars Story and Eponine Thénardier in the 2019 BBC adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables.

Originally from Tamworth, Staffordshire, Kellyman was...

Enfys Nest

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Karli Morgenthau

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

37. David Harbour

Actor | Revolutionary Road

David Harbour is an American actor who has performed in film, television, and the theater.

He is known for his role as CIA agent Gregg Beam in Quantum of Solace (2008), Shep Campbell in Revolutionary Road (2008), Van Hauser in End of Watch (2012) and Dexter Tolliver in Suicide Squad (2016). He also ...

Alexei Shostakov (Red Guardian)

Black Widow
What If…?
Thunderbolts

Tajin

Star Wars: Visions

38. Kumail Nanjiani

Actor | The Big Sick

Kumail Nanjiani was born on May 2, 1978 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is an actor and writer, known for The Big Sick (2017), Life as We Know It (2010) and Stuber (2019). He has been married to Emily V. Gordon since July 14, 2007.

Kingo

Eternals

Haja Estree

Obi-Wan Kenobi