Cast list
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015): The Full Cast List, All 59 Credited Performers
59 credited performers, 22 with a recorded role · directed by J. J. Abrams.
INT. STAR WARS: EPISODE VII – THE FORCE AWAKENS — DAY
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is listed here with its full credited cast rather than the handful of names that usually travel with it. That is the difference most cast searches are actually after: the lead is rarely the thing being looked up, and the performer someone half-remembers is almost always further down the list.
Cast
Listed in the billing order recorded for the film. Roles are shown where they are recorded — 22 of 59 here.
- Harrison Ford Han Solo
- Mark Hamill Luke Skywalker
- Carrie Fisher Princess Leia
- Daniel Craig stormtrooper
- Bill Hader role not recorded
- Warwick Davis role not recorded
- Michael Giacchino stormtrooper
- Ewan McGregor Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Alec Guinness Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Max von Sydow role not recorded
- Andy Serkis Supreme Leader Snoke
- Greg Grunberg Snap Wexley
- Frank Oz Yoda
- Simon Pegg role not recorded
- Harriet Walter role not recorded
- Oscar Isaac Poe Dameron
- Ken Leung role not recorded
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster role not recorded
- Kenny Baker R2-D2
- Gwendoline Christie Phasma
- Anthony Daniels C-3PO
- Domhnall Gleeson General Hux
- Nigel Godrich stormtrooper
- Pip Torrens role not recorded
- John Boyega Finn
- Peter Mayhew Chewbacca
- Jefferson Hall role not recorded
- Gerald W. Abrams role not recorded
- Jessica Henwick role not recorded
- Hannah John-Kamen role not recorded
- Kate Fleetwood role not recorded
- Adam Driver Kylo Ren
- Mark Stanley role not recorded
- Judah Friedlander role not recorded
- Meredith Salenger role not recorded
- Kiran Shah role not recorded
- Iko Uwais role not recorded
- Jimmy Vee role not recorded
- Sebastian Armesto role not recorded
- Lupita Nyong'o Maz Kanata
- Anna Brewster role not recorded
- Ben Schwartz role not recorded
- Emun Elliott role not recorded
- Jack Laskey role not recorded
- Jeffery Kissoon role not recorded
- Mike Quinn role not recorded
- Rocky Marshall role not recorded
- Timothy M. Rose Admiral Ackbar
- Tosin Cole role not recorded
- Victor McGuire role not recorded
- Yayan Ruhian role not recorded
- Christina Chong role not recorded
- Daisy Ridley Rey
- Joonas Suotamo role not recorded
- Billie Lourd role not recorded
- Miltos Yerolemou role not recorded
- Maisie Richardson-Sellers role not recorded
- Leanne Best role not recorded
- David Acord role not recorded
Production
- Released
- 2015
- Directed by
- J. J. Abrams
- Written by
- J. J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt
- Production
- Bad Robot Productions, Lucasfilm, Truenorth
- Running time
- 138 minutes
How the credits break down
59 performers are credited and 22 of them have a recorded role, which is 37% of the list. An ensemble this size is why most of a cast goes unlisted everywhere else: the names past the top few simply do not travel with the film.
Performers here with a filmography page
One of this cast has a filmography page on this site, so the rest of their work is one click away.
At 59 credited performers this sits against a median of 19 across the 16 films held here, larger than 15 of them. Cast size is worth a glance because it predicts how findable the supporting players are: the bigger the ensemble, the more of it exists nowhere else in a readable form, which is the whole reason to write these lists out in full.
What this list does and does not tell you
A credited cast is a reliable answer to "who was in it" and a poor answer to "who mattered in it". The record behind this page carries every credited performer, carries character names unevenly, and mostly does not carry billing at all, so the ordering above is either the real billing or plainly alphabetical, and never a reconstruction dressed up as one. Where a role is missing it says so rather than leaving a blank that reads like an omission.
The other thing a cast list will not answer is what happened next, which is usually the second question. The sequel tracker covers the follow-ups that were set up and whether they arrived, and the film index is the way back to the rest of these pages. Performers with a page of their own are gathered in the actor index.
This cast is one of the 46 in the daily film games — guess the film from its cast, or sort sixteen performers into the four films they appeared in.
Questions about the cast
Who is in the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens?
59 credited performers are listed below, 22 of them with the character they plays. The list is the full credited cast rather than a top-billed selection.
Who directed Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens?
J. J. Abrams. The film was released in 2015.
Where do these details come from?
Structured film records, pulled by the same process that builds every cast list on this site rather than written from memory. What that source carries reliably is who was credited; what it carries patchily is character names, and what it usually omits entirely is billing order. The pages are built to that shape instead of papering over it.