50 Fun Facts About Andor

Who created Andor and served as its showrunner?

Gilroy had co-written Rogue One and overseen its extensive reshoots.

How many years before Rogue One does the series begin?

Season one covers a single year; season two jumps a year per block of three episodes.

Which actor plays Cassian Andor?

Diego Luna plays Cassian Andor, reprising his Rogue One role, and also serves as an executive producer on the series.

Who was Andor's original showrunner before being replaced in April 2020?

Stephen Schiff, a former New Yorker writer, had been Andor's showrunner since late 2018 and was replaced in April 2020, before filming began.

Under what working title was the series filmed?

Andor was shot under the working title Pilgrim; its real title was revealed by Kathleen Kennedy at Disney's Investor Day in December 2020.

Who plays rebel spymaster Luthen Rael?

Skarsgård was the first to let slip that a second season was coming, in February 2022.

By what codename do Imperial agents know Luthen?

The ISB knows Luthen only by the codename Axis; Dedra Meero's season-one arc is her obsessive hunt for the man behind it.

What is Luthen's public cover on Coruscant?

Luthen's cover is as an antiques dealer, running a gallery of galactic artifacts on Coruscant where his assistant Kleya handles covert communications.

Who plays Deputy Inspector Syril Karn?

Kyle Soller plays Syril Karn, the deputy inspector whose hunt for Cassian begins after two corporate security guards are killed on Morlana One.

Syril starts the series working for which corporate authority?

Syril is a deputy inspector for the Preox-Morlana Corporate Authority, or Pre-Mor, which polices the Morlana sector until the Empire takes over after the Ferrix raid.

Which actress plays mechanic and black-market dealer Bix Caleen?

Adria Arjona plays Bix Caleen, the Ferrix mechanic and salvage dealer whose torture by the ISB's Dr Gorst in season one haunts her through season two.

Who plays Cassian's adoptive mother Maarva?

Shaw called the scripts a scurrilous take on the Trumpian world.

Which actress was originally cast as Maarva before dropping out?

Fiona Shaw took over the role before filming began.

Who plays ISB supervisor Dedra Meero?

Gough has said the character's arc is about fighting her way up in a male environment.

What is the name of Mon Mothma's teenage daughter?

Mon Mothma's daughter is Leida, played by Bronte Carmichael; season two opens with her arranged wedding to Stekan Sculdun, son of the banker Davo Sculdun.

Who is Dedra's commanding officer at the ISB?

Major Partagaz runs the ISB's Coruscant operations as Dedra's superior; he is played by Anton Lesser, known as Qyburn in Game of Thrones.

Mon Mothma represents which wealthy core world in the Senate?

Mon Mothma is the senator for Chandrila, a wealthy Core World; she secretly channels her family fortune into the fledgling rebellion.

Who plays Mon Mothma?

Genevieve O'Reilly has played Mon Mothma since Revenge of the Sith, where her scenes were cut, and returned in Rogue One and Rebels.

How is rebel operative Vel Sartha related to Mon Mothma?

Vel Sartha is Mon Mothma's cousin; she leads the garrison raid and is in a relationship with the medic Cinta Kaz.

On which planet does season one's Imperial payroll heist take place?

The heist hits the Imperial garrison on Aldhani, timed to the Eye, a rare meteor shower the Dhani highlanders gather to watch.

Which idealistic young rebel writes the anti-Empire manifesto?

Karis Nemik, the young idealist on the garrison heist crew, writes the manifesto; its 'freedom is a pure idea' passage is heard in the season-one finale.

On which moon is the Imperial prison factory where Cassian is held?

Cassian is sent to the prison factory on Narkina 5, where inmates build components later revealed to be parts of the Death Star.

Andy Serkis plays which prison floor manager?

Andy Serkis plays Kino Loy, the prison floor manager who leads the breakout; he had earlier played Supreme Leader Snoke in the sequel trilogy.

What is the name of Cassian's home planet, ruined by the Empire?

Cassian's home planet is Kenari, a world abandoned after a mining disaster; Maarva has him claim to be from Fest to hide his origin.

By what name was young Cassian known before Maarva took him in?

The boy is called Kassa on his home world; Antonio Viña plays him in the flashbacks before Maarva smuggles him away to Ferrix.

Cassian's alias on the run is the name of which relative?

Cassian travels as 'Clem', the name of his adoptive father Clem Andor, Maarva's partner, played by Gary Beadle and executed by Imperial troops on Ferrix.

What is the name of Maarva's stammering household droid?

Maarva's droid is B2EMO, or Bee, a battered groundmech salvage droid performed by puppeteer Dave Chapman, who also voices him.

Who plays Bail Organa in season two?

Benjamin Bratt took over Bail Organa in season two, the role Jimmy Smits had played in the prequels, Rogue One and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Ben Mendelsohn reprises which Rogue One role in season two?

Krennic directs advanced weapons research for the Imperial military.

Alan Tudyk voices which reprogrammed Imperial droid?

Alan Tudyk voices K-2SO, the reprogrammed KX-series security droid; he was written out of season one but returns in season two after the droid is captured and reprogrammed.

Which planet's massacre does Mon Mothma denounce in her Senate speech?

Mon Mothma denounces the Ghorman massacre in the season-two episode 'Welcome to the Rebellion', calling the Emperor a monster before Cassian extracts her from the Senate.

Who plays Luthen's assistant Kleya Marki?

Elizabeth Dulau plays Kleya Marki, Luthen's assistant, who takes centre stage in season two when she slips into an Imperial hospital to silence the wounded Luthen.

The flashbacks showing Kleya and Luthen's past were inspired by which 1973 road movie?

Gilroy modelled the Luthen and Kleya flashbacks on Paper Moon, the 1973 film pairing Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as a con man and a young girl on the road.

Who composed the first season's score?

Nicholas Britell composed season one, writing a different main-title arrangement for each of its twelve episodes.

Who scored most of season two after the original composer had scheduling conflicts?

The season-one composer still wrote episodes four and five.

How were season two's twelve episodes released?

Season two dropped three episodes per week for four weeks, from April 22 to May 13, 2025, each block covering one year of story.

Andor was the first live-action Star Wars series not to use which technology?

Andor skipped StageCraft, the LED 'Volume' stage used on The Mandalorian, in favour of real locations and large practical sets, much like Rogue One.

Which London district's plaza served as the entrance to the ISB headquarters?

The ISB headquarters entrance was filmed at Canary Wharf in London's Docklands; Rogue One had also shot scenes in Canary Wharf's Jubilee line station.

Which Lancashire seaside town's promenade was dressed as the resort planet Niamos?

Niamos was shot on the promenade at Cleveleys, near Blackpool, whose stepped concrete sea defences doubled as the resort world's seafront in 2021.

Around 500 crew travelled to Oban to film at which Scottish dam?

The garrison dam in the heist is Cruachan Dam in Argyll; the crew built sets around it and filmed inside the hydro station's tunnels.

Who directed the first three episodes after Gilroy could not travel during the pandemic?

Gilroy stayed in New York and remained showrunner; Haynes also directed a later block.

Which director handled six of season two's twelve episodes?

Ariel Kleiman directed season two's first and third three-episode arcs, six episodes in all; Janus Metz and Alonso Ruizpalacios took the other two arcs.

Which House of Cards creator was part of the writing team?

Beau Willimon, who developed the US House of Cards, wrote season one's three-episode prison arc, including 'One Way Out'.

In Ferrix custom, the ashes of the dead are pressed into what?

Ferrix cremates its dead and mixes the ashes into a brick that is mortared into the town's walls; Maarva's brick becomes a weapon in the season-one finale riot.

Which honour did the series win in both 2022 and 2025?

The citation praised a world stressing the need for grassroots organising against a fascistic state.

Forest Whitaker reprises which militant rebel leader?

Forest Whitaker returns as Saw Gerrera, whose Partisans are too extreme for Luthen's wider network; he first played the role in Rogue One.

Who plays Syril's overbearing mother Eedy Karn?

Hunter is known for playing all three witches in Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Which Zootopia writer originally developed the series and wrote its pilot script?

Jared Bush, co-writer and co-director of Zootopia, developed the series first and wrote its original pilot script and series bible.

Gilroy compared the early script's Andor and K-2SO pairing to which film duo?

He found it limited and claustrophobic, and wrote to Kathleen Kennedy with a different vision.

The first two episodes were broadcast on which US network on November 23, 2022?

Disney aired Andor's first two episodes on ABC on November 23, 2022, with further showings on FX, Freeform and Hulu that week to attract new viewers.