Maz Kanata

Image: Vanity Fair

Maz Kanata is a Character in the Star Wars universe. Kanata is played by Lupita Nyong’o. Kanata is identified in promotional materials as a pirate. She is identified as female.

Biography

Very little is known of Maz Kanata. She is identified in a preview article by Vanity Fair as a pirate, and a collection of still images from the set confirms that she lives in a castle. Her domicile is shown to be crowded with "travelers, smugglers, and other assorted riff-raff."

Image: Vanity Fair

The aesthetic of the images and the clothing worm by the aliens lounging in her corridors suggests a desert environment, hinting that Kanata makes her home on Jakku.

Description

Maz Kanata is a motion-captured character played by Lupita Nyong’o. Her appearance is unknown. It is possible that she is the alien character glimpsed briefly in The Force Awakens second trailer seen handing Luke Skywalker's first lightsaber, (Anakin Skywalker's second blue-bladed lightsaber), to an unknown human woman.

Could this be Maz Kanata?

Appearances

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Legends

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