# Actors with ready-made Star Wars names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941 "2002-04-27T12:33:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tetsusaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@tetsusaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tetsusaru)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/1 "2002-04-27T12:33:23Z")
Jared Leto Uma Thurman Brad Renfro {You`d think I had something better to do on Saturday night} ---
**Author:** ![Skijumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Skijumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skijumper)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/2 "2002-04-27T13:26:41Z")
How does a name qualify as Star Wars-ish? Anyway, my picks - Seth Green Alan Alda Oded Fehr Christian Bale Hank Azaria Marlon Brando Vin Diesel Omar Epps Joaquin Phoenix Sigourney Weaver No scrap the last one. She sounds like someone out of Middle Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/3 "2002-04-27T16:06:07Z")
Thora Birch Mena Suvari Fairuza Balk ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/4 "2002-04-27T16:44:05Z")
lol i was gonna add fairuza balk. How bout River Phoenix? Sal Mineo Jurge Pronchnow Celine Dion ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/5 "2002-04-27T16:50:21Z")
Bronson Pinchot Yaphet Kotto Theda Bara Dirk Bogarde (although he also sounds like a B-movie faux-film noir detective) Calista Flockhart Actually, Alan Alda sounds like the name of a star system. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/6 "2002-04-27T16:50:44Z")
Eliza Dushku Mila Kunis ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/7 "2002-04-27T20:28:38Z")
Dwight Yoakum ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/8 "2002-04-27T21:51:04Z")
Nana Visitor Cirroc Lofton ---
**Author:** ![KinSaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@KinSaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinSaba)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/9 "2002-04-27T22:00:55Z")
Keanu Reeves ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/10 "2002-04-27T22:01:25Z")
ooohhh yapphet kotto gets my vote so far. what was he/she in? Ive seen that name around. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/11 "2002-04-27T22:11:09Z")
Carrie-Anne Moss (it’s the hyphenization thing there…) Ryder Strong Cary Elwes Adrea Parker Famke Janssen Deborah Duchêne ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/12 "2002-04-27T22:25:45Z")
Stellan Skarsgaard Meryl Streep ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/13 "2002-04-27T22:29:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KidCharlemagne \* > \*\*ooohhh yapphet kotto gets my vote so far. what was he/she in? Ive seen that name around. \*\* He was the lieutenant on **Homicide**. Also the villain in **Live and Let Die**. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/14 "2002-04-27T23:43:09Z")
And the black guy in Alien. ---
**Author:** ![holnist\_army](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@holnist\_army](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holnist_army)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/15 "2002-04-27T23:49:45Z")
Thom York Sophie Marceau Benicio del Toro and my personal favorite: Bruce Boxlitner ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/16 "2002-04-28T00:50:25Z")
I’ve been working on this SW fan fiction piece, and one of the characters is a human lawyer named Varujan Kojian (the conductor for the Utah Symphony Orchestra, according to a SW CD I have). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/17 "2002-04-28T01:05:25Z")
Arnold Vosloo Tcheky Karyo Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/18 "2002-04-28T01:14:30Z")
Hugh Jackman (the guy who played Wolverine in the X-Men movie). It’d be even better if he parsed his name “ **Huge Jackman** ” ---
**Author:** ![tetsusaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@tetsusaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tetsusaru)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/19 "2002-04-28T01:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skijumper \* > \*\*How does a name qualify as Star Wars-ish? > > Anyway, my picks - > > Seth Green > Alan Alda > Oded Fehr > Christian Bale > Hank Azaria > Marlon Brando > Vin Diesel > Omar Epps > Joaquin Phoenix > Sigourney Weaver > > No scrap the last one. She sounds like someone out of Middle Earth. \*\* I dunno exactly what qualifies a name as being ready-made for Star Wars, but I`d go with all your picks: just that slightly cheesy, made-up, SF ring to them. Marlon Brando is great, though I see him more as a planet than a character: "That`s no moon - it`s Marlon Brando!" Dolph Lundgren and Viggo Mortenson I see as being from a planet populated solely by chiselled, Aryan, Men-Of-The-SS-Calendar beefcake. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-ready-made-star-wars-names/105941/20 "2002-04-28T01:29:46Z")
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