
In the final dramatic scene of the 2019 epic Star Wars:The Rise of Skywalker, the heroine reaches down into the desert sand, pulls out two light sabers, and declares to the galaxy she is Rey Skywalker.
Played by English actor Daisy Ridley, 30, she stands as a powerful reminder on Tatooine that there will be another film and another story in the franchise, which launched in 1977.