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Mark Hamill Biography

Date of Birth:
Sep 25, Birth Place:
Oakland, California, USA

Biography

While most artists strive to hone a single craft and spend their lives inhabiting that one world, actor Mark Hamill navigated a universum that went from feature films to television and voiceovers for video games. Most significantly, Hamill portrayed one of the most identifiable characters in rulle and pop culture history, Luke Skywalker, the farm boy-turned-Jedi Knight in "Star Wars" (), "The Empire Strikes Back" () and "Return of the Jedi" (). Despite the enormity of the "Star Wars" trilogy and its place in cinema history, Hamill's later spelfilm career faltered, only for him to reemerge to breathe life into various animated characters. Because "Star Wars" creator George Lucas spun the films off into comic books, animated series and video games, Hamill was assured work reprising Skywalker for years, long before J.J. Abrams breathed new life into that universum with "Star Wars: The For

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Mark Hamill

Mark Hamill(born on September 25, ) is an actor, best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalkerin the original and sequel Star Warstrilogies.

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"I lit up when I found out that they were going to make my face a mask on a box of cereal. With little dots where to cut my eyes out. The idea of me being on bubble gum cards I thought you had to have athletic ability to be a bubble gum card. So I enjoyed the merchandising aspect of it."

&#;Mark Hamill, on the success of Star Wars^[2]

Hamill found fame with the hero role of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars in He was originally cast as David on "Eight Is Enough," and asked to be released from his contract before Star Wars came out because he sensed the movie would be successful. Hamill wanted to focus on his movie career. At last his producers agreed to remove him from the series.

In January 11, , a day before he was set to shoot one of the final scenes needed for the

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Mark Hamill

American actor (born )

Mark Richard Hamill (; born September 25, ) is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise, and the Joker in various animated DC Comics projects, starting with Batman: The Animated Series in

Through the s, Hamill distinguished himself from his role in Star Wars by pursuing a theatre career on Broadway, starring in productions of The Elephant Man, Amadeus and The Nerd. His other live-action film and television roles include Kenneth W. Dantley Jr. in Corvette Summer (), Private Griff in The Big Red One (), Crow in Sushi Girl (), Ted Mitchum in Brigsby Bear (), and Arthur Pym in the Netflix miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher ().

Hamill has also had a prolific career as a voice actor. Aside from Joker, his roles include the Hobgoblin in Spider-Man: The Animated Series (–), Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender (–), Mr. Salacia and Senator Stampingston in