50 Fun Facts About Ahsoka

Who plays Ahsoka Tano in live action?

Rosario Dawson. In 2017 a fan asked her on Twitter if she would ever play Ahsoka; she answered 'yes please', and the tweet was passed on inside Lucasfilm.

Who voiced Ahsoka in The Clone Wars and Rebels?

Ashley Eckstein. Voicing Ahsoka led her to found Her Universe in 2010, a fashion label making science-fiction clothing for girls and women.

Which former Sith Lord does Ahsoka duel and capture at the Siege of Mandalore?

Maul. He had staged the whole siege to lure Anakin and kill him before Sidious could claim him; Ahsoka came instead, and took him prisoner just before Order 66.

In which film is Ahsoka's voice heard among the Jedi of the past who speak to Rey?

The Rise of Skywalker. She speaks alongside Yoda, Obi-Wan and Anakin, a voice-only cameo that reached cinemas a year before audiences first saw her in live action.

What species is Ahsoka?

Togruta. The horns are called montrals and the striped head-tails lekku, and both keep growing with age, which is why the adult Ahsoka's are longer than the Padawan's.

Who is revealed to have been Ahsoka's Padawan after Rebels?

Sabine Wren. The training broke off when the Empire destroyed Mandalore and Sabine's family with it, and Ahsoka feared her pupil now wanted power for the wrong reasons.

Who plays the Mandalorian rebel Sabine Wren in the Ahsoka series?

Natasha Liu Bordizzo. Her casting leaked in 2021, but she had to keep quiet for months before telling a Star Wars Celebration crowd she could finally fangirl in the open.

Who plays General Hera Syndulla in the Ahsoka series?

Mary Elizabeth Winstead. She saw Hera as a general who is also a mother, and liked how far that sits from the hard, masculine commanders usually put on screen.

Who played the fallen Jedi Baylan Skoll in the first season of Ahsoka?

Ray Stevenson. He died in May 2023, three months before the series reached the screen, and its first episode closes on the words 'For our friend, Ray'.

Which Game of Thrones actor was cast in 2025 to take over Baylan Skoll for Ahsoka's second season?

Rory McCann. The Scottish actor who played Sandor Clegane, the Hound, inherited the fallen Jedi after the death of the role's first actor.

What is the name of Hera Syndulla's freighter in Rebels and Ahsoka?

The Ghost. The freighter is named for the way it slips past Imperial sensors unseen, and the Phantom is the small shuttle it carries.

Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati are named after wolves from which mythology?

Norse. Sköll and Hati are the wolves who chase the sun and the moon across the sky, and who finally catch them at Ragnarök, the end of the world.

Which Doctor Who star voices the lightsaber-crafting droid Huyang?

David Tennant first voiced Huyang in a 2012 Clone Wars episode: a droid professor who has taught Jedi, Yoda among them, to build their lightsabers for a thousand generations.

Which actor, Sherlock's blackmailer Charles Augustus Magnussen, plays Grand Admiral Thrawn in Ahsoka?

Lars Mikkelsen. He voiced the animated Thrawn in two seasons of Rebels before putting on the blue make-up himself, and is the older brother of Mads Mikkelsen.

Thrawn belongs to which blue-skinned, red-eyed species?

Chiss. Born Mitth'raw'nuruodo, he goes by the core of that name, Thrawn, and wins his battles by studying an enemy's art and culture to learn how they think.

Which Star Wars Rebels hero does Eman Esfandi play in Ahsoka?

Ezra Bridger. At first he is seen only as a recorded hologram; his friends have to cross to another galaxy before the real Ezra is found.

What kind of creature is Murley, the pet kept by one of the heroes of Ahsoka?

A Loth-cat. On set Murley was a real animatronic puppet, built by the same workshop that made Grogu, with digital versions added after filming.

Who returns as Anakin Skywalker in the Ahsoka series?

Hayden Christensen. He was digitally de-aged for scenes set in the Clone Wars, and the hair team studied Revenge of the Sith to rebuild his mullet from that film.

Which 2022 animated anthology shows Ahsoka's first hunt as a baby on her home planet?

Tales of the Jedi. Its six shorts are split between Ahsoka and Count Dooku, and one of hers retells the story Dave Filoni first outlined for the 2016 novel about her.

Dave Filoni modelled Ahsoka's journey in the series on which Tolkien character?

Gandalf. Like the wizard, Ahsoka comes through a brush with death changed and in new robes, and the season was even filmed under the code name Stormcrow, one of his nicknames.

Ahsoka's first season won its only Emmy in which craft category?

Costume Design. The Emmy for Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes was posthumous: designer Shawna Trpcic, who had also dressed The Mandalorian, died in October 2023, within days of the season's final episode.

Who composed the score for Ahsoka, as he had for The Clone Wars and Rebels?

Kevin Kiner. He wrote it with his children Sean and Deana, and said the five hours of music the season needed would have been impossible to produce alone.

What is the name of Grand Admiral Thrawn's Star Destroyer?

Chimaera. The flagship of Thrawn's Seventh Fleet vanished with him at the Battle of Lothal, which is why the Empire's last Grand Admiral was unaccounted for when it fell.

Ahsoka's Inquisitor Marrok shares his name with a werewolf from which body of legend?

Arthurian. Sir Marrok is a Knight of the Round Table whose own wife turns him into a werewolf, a neat fit for a series whose other villains are named after wolves.

The three Nightsister Great Mothers in Ahsoka are named after which mythological trio?

The Fates. Klothow, Lakesis and Aktropaw echo the Greek Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, who spin, measure and cut the thread of life, and the witches talk of the thread of destiny too.

Ahsoka's Morgan Elsbeth is played by the goddaughter of which martial-arts legend?

Bruce Lee. Diana Lee Inosanto is the daughter of his student Dan Inosanto and has trained since childhood, the skill the makers wanted in a villain who could go toe to toe with Ahsoka.

Which droid in Ahsoka is voiced by the series' creator, Dave Filoni?

Chopper. Filoni has performed Hera's cranky astromech since Rebels, where the writers still had to script every beep and grumble for him to act out.

Temuera Morrison guest stars in Ahsoka as which clone?

Captain Rex. It was his live-action debut: in animation every clone is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, but here the part went to the man whose face the clones wear.

In Rebels, a young Jedi pulls Ahsoka out of her duel with Darth Vader through which mystical realm?

The World Between Worlds. Ahsoka wakes there again in her own series, after losing another duel, and this time the figure waiting for her is Anakin.

Which Jedi Master discovered the young Ahsoka on her homeworld and brought her into the Jedi Order?

Plo Koon. He found her among her people when she was three, after her knack for sensing what other people felt and intended had marked her out as strong in the Force.

The Star Wars films open with a crawl of yellow text; what colour is the crawl that opens Ahsoka?

Red. Months earlier the head of Lucasfilm had said that the crawl is for movies; the series got one anyway, set apart by its colour and plainer layout.

Who is the father of Hera's son Jacen?

Kanan Jarrus. The Jedi was killed saving Hera and their crew before the boy was born, which is why Jacen talks of becoming a Jedi like the father he never met.

On which planet in a distant galaxy is Thrawn found in Ahsoka?

Peridea. It is the ancestral home of the Dathomir witches, and three ancient Great Mothers there have been helping Thrawn plan his way back.

Ashla, Ahsoka's early name, later became what?

Her alias. In the 2016 novel the fugitive Ahsoka lives in hiding as 'Ashla' while the new Empire hunts down surviving Jedi.

Cleared of the Temple bombing, how does Ahsoka answer the Jedi Council's invitation to return?

She leaves the Order. Anakin tells her he understands wanting to leave the Jedi; she answers only that she knows, and turns her back on the Temple.

Which Jedi assumes the newly arrived Ahsoka is his own Padawan?

Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the 2008 film he welcomes her as his own apprentice, and she has to explain that Yoda has assigned her to Anakin, who had argued against taking a Padawan at all.

What nickname does Anakin give Ahsoka?

Snips. Anakin coined it at their first battle for her snippy comebacks; she hit back with Skyguy, and kept using it because it annoyed him.

Under what codename does Ahsoka feed intelligence to the rebels in Rebels?

Fulcrum. The word began as the name of Anakin's private comm frequency, and after Ahsoka it passed to other rebel spies, among them the Imperial defector Kallus.

Which friend framed Ahsoka for a Jedi Temple bombing in The Clone Wars?

Barriss Offee. Convinced the war had corrupted the Jedi, she bombed the Temple herself and let her friend stand trial, confessing only after Anakin caught her.

What colour are Ahsoka's lightsaber blades in Rebels?

White. In the novel Ahsoka she takes the red crystals from a beaten Inquisitor's weapon and heals them through the Force, which is what turns the blades white.

During Order 66, what does Ahsoka remove from a clone ally's head to free him from the command to kill her?

His inhibitor chip. Every clone carried the brain implant, which forced obedience to the order; with it gone, her friend could choose to fight beside her again.

Ahsoka's look was inspired by the heroine of which animated film?

Princess Mononoke. Ahsoka was one of the first characters Dave Filoni drew at Lucasfilm, with the wolf-riding San in mind; George Lucas later had her alien features softened.

On which planet does Ahsoka duel Darth Vader in Rebels?

Malachor. Fighting on top of its Sith temple, she slices open Vader's mask and finds the scarred face of her old master, Anakin, looking back at her.

What is the name of the owl-like convor that watches over Ahsoka?

Morai. The green bird is bound to the Daughter, a godlike being who gave up her own life to bring Ahsoka back from death, and it has shadowed her ever since.

Ahsoka served as Padawan-commander of which clone legion?

501st. It was Anakin's own legion, and near the end of the war he split off part of it and sent those clones to the Siege of Mandalore to fight at Ahsoka's side.

Who wrote the 2016 young-adult novel Ahsoka?

E. K. Johnston wrote it from an outline by Dave Filoni himself, and the audiobook is read by the actress who gave Ahsoka her voice in animation.

On which planet does Ahsoka first meet the Mandalorian?

Corvus. Bo-Katan sends him to its walled city of Calodan, where Ahsoka is fighting to free the townspeople from a ruthless magistrate, and he ends up helping her.

Ahsoka tells the Mandalorian to take Grogu to the Jedi temple on which planet?

Tython. Ahsoka refuses to train Grogu herself, fearing his attachment could lead him where Anakin went, and sends him to a seeing stone there to call out to other Jedi.

On which planet was Ahsoka Tano born?

Shili. On her first hunt there, as a baby, she calmed the beast that had carried her off and rode it home, and a village elder declared she would be a Jedi.

Which whale-like creatures travel through hyperspace and carry ships between galaxies in Ahsoka?

Purrgil. A pod of them dragged Thrawn's flagship into exile at the end of Rebels, and Ahsoka follows him by flying her ship into the mouth of one.