Order 66 was executed in 32 BBY, so Obi-Wan was twenty-five when he dueled his former pupil on Mustafar, saw Padmé die of hEaRtBrEaK-I’m sorry, but that motivation still enrages me after all these years-and made sure that Luke was delivered safely into the arms of his Skywalker uncle and aunt on Tatooine. So, he was fifty-seven years old when he died, which means that Sir Alec Guinness was almost a decade too old to be playing him and his age is actually much closer to Ewan McGregor’s current age-since the actor is in his fifties.Īnd since he passed from a Padawan to a full Jedi Knight in 37 BBY, after he defeated Darth Maul in a duel, that means that he was twenty when he and Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn arrived on Tatooine and met a little boy who was going to absolutely wreck the entire galaxy, bringing the Jedi Order down with him. Wookieepedia says that Obi-Wan was born in 57 BBY and died, obviously, in 0 BBY - since his duel with Darth Vader takes place just a few weeks before the Battle of Yavin itself. So, let’s calculate Obi-Wan’s age according to these dates. But does Obi-Wan’s in-universe age match that of his actors?Įvents in the Star Wars universe are classified as either BBY, “Before the Battle of Yavin”, or ABY, “After the Battle of Yavin”-making the watershed moment of the history of the galaxy, the battle that resulted in the first big victory of the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire (with the destruction of the first Death Star). He was 65-66 when he appeared as a Force Ghost in Empire Strikes Back and 68-69 in Return of the Jedi. And conversely, Sir Alec Guinness was 62-63 when he played older Ben Kenobi in the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope. But stay with me! I’m doing science!Įwan McGregor himself was 27-28 when The Phantom Menace was released 30-31 during Attack of the Clones and 33-34 in Revenge of the Sith. Looking at the timeline, we know Obi-Wan was young enough to still be a Padawan when Anakin first meets him on Tatooine and old enough to be an elderly man when he dies dueling Darth Vader on the first Death Star. Starting from his age-how old is Obi-Wan exactly? The Age of the Actors So, as we all wait for May 27th, when the first episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi is set to release on Disney Plus, we can take this opportunity to freshen up our knowledge of one of the most iconic Jedi masters of the galaxy far, far away. Anakin you have cringe lines but I still love you immensely what can I do.
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