Star Wars: The Force Awakens

…sci-fi franchise with the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), which he cowrote and directed. Set several decades after the 1983 Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, it was billed as the seventh episode in the series and featured both new and old characters. While he stated that…

…seventh installment in the series, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was directed by J.J. Abrams. Two more movies followed—Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (2017), directed by Rian Johnson, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019; also called Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker), directed by Abrams—to…

…the villain Kylo Ren in Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens (2015), and with this performance he became a star. He reprised the role in Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019). In addition, he won praise for his portrayal of…

…role as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He then starred in Blade Runner 2049 (2017), a sequel to the 1982 classic. Ford later lent his voice to the animated comedy The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) and appeared in The Call of the Wild (2020),…

…fighter pilot Poe Dameron in Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens (2015) and reprised that role in Star Wars Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He took on a different sort of science-fiction role in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), playing mutant supervillain En…

…a third Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (2017), and Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Disney also created A Star Wars Story series, which comprised stand-alone movies.

…Kanata, a thousand-year-old pirate, in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. She later voiced a computer-animated version of the wolf Raksha in the 2016 live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.

…played a minor role in Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens (2015). He also voiced the character of Buck in the animated films Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022).

A seventh film, Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens, was released in 2015. It was the first entry in the series to be produced by the Walt Disney Company, which had purchased Lucasfilms Ltd. in 2012. The film, which was directed by J.J. Abrams, introduced new characters to…

…cast of the sci-fi epic Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the following year he portrayed the Three-Eyed Raven in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones. His later movies included The Command (2018; also called Kursk).