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If you haven't kept a close eye on casting news, you might be wondering who plays Zorii in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Among all the new characters introduced in the movie, Zorii is especially intriguing: a criminal who shares a complicated history with Poe. Underneath her helmet, though, is an actress you definitely know: Keri Russell.
Russell is a longtime collaborator of director J.J. Abrams, having starred on his breakout dramedy Felicity from 1998 to 2002; she also had a role in the Abrams-directed Mission: Impossible III. More recently, she's best known for her Emmy-nominated leading performance on The Americans as Kgb spy Elizabeth Jennings. Ahead of her debut in the Star Wars universe, Russell actually worked with one of her future costars on Broadway: she and Adam Driver costarred in the revival of the play Burn This in the Spring of 2019.
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If you haven't kept a close eye on casting news, you might be wondering who plays Zorii in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Among all the new characters introduced in the movie, Zorii is especially intriguing: a criminal who shares a complicated history with Poe. Underneath her helmet, though, is an actress you definitely know: Keri Russell.
Russell is a longtime collaborator of director J.J. Abrams, having starred on his breakout dramedy Felicity from 1998 to 2002; she also had a role in the Abrams-directed Mission: Impossible III. More recently, she's best known for her Emmy-nominated leading performance on The Americans as Kgb spy Elizabeth Jennings. Ahead of her debut in the Star Wars universe, Russell actually worked with one of her future costars on Broadway: she and Adam Driver costarred in the revival of the play Burn This in the Spring of 2019.
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- 12/22/2019
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
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