10 Oldest Characters In Star Wars Universe

It was always going to take something and someone truly ridiculous to keep Yoda from the #1 spot of this list, and that “truly ridiculous” was introduced in 2015’s The Force Awakens. Step forward, Maz Kanata.

Voiced and mo-capped by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, nobody actually knows exactly how old the mysterious Maz is. What we do know, however, is that the character had already been alive for over 1,000 years by the time she first appeared in J.J. Abrams' Episode VII. Even more impressive, Maz’s tavern alone is older than the vast majority of the Star Wars franchise's characters – the former pirate and smuggler having ran said tavern for over a century.

Where the current trilogy of Star Wars movies is concerned, Maz Kanata has been one of its greatest creations, being both a fantastic supporting character and also filling the Yoda void of being the wisest person in whichever room she finds herself in. And it's that legendary Jedi Master who she edges out to claim the prize of being the oldest character in the galaxy of main Star Wars canon.