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Actors you may not have realized were in Star Wars

By Nik Edlund

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 18: Keira Knightley attends "The Aftermath" World Premiere held at The Picturehouse Central on February 18, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 18: Keira Knightley attends "The Aftermath" World Premiere held at The Picturehouse Central on February 18, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) /
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LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 15: Keira Knightley attends ELLE’s 25th Annual Women In Hollywood Celebration presented by L’Oreal Paris, Hearts On Fire and CALVIN KLEIN at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on October 15, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for ELLE Magazine)
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 15: Keira Knightley attends ELLE’s 25th Annual Women In Hollywood Celebration presented by L’Oreal Paris, Hearts On Fire and CALVIN KLEIN at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on October 15, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for ELLE Magazine) /

Kiera Knightly

The beautiful Kiera Knightly got one of her first acting gigs in Star Wars. Before you knew her as Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean or Juliet from Love Actually, the woman who gets famously serenaded with those cards at the end of the film, Knightly appeared as one of the handmaidens in The Phantom Menace.

Knightly played Sabe, one of the many handmaidens and decoys of Queen Amidala. She was only 12 years old when she took on the role, and with the heavy makeup and weird headdress thing she wears, it is pretty hard to recognize her.

Sabe does have a few brief lines in the film in the moments she is being the Queen’s decoy. She plays the role very seriously and perhaps even a little zombie-like and Knightly herself said she was having to fight the urge to yawn during filming. That makes sense Kiera because many of us were fighting the urge not to yawn as we watched the film.

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