Jackson famously requested a purple lightsaber to play Mace Windu in "Star Wars." You can watch Jackson ask "Star Wars" creator George Lucas about it here. Jackson's voice can be heard in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."

In recent years, Jackson became known for his role as Nick Fury, the man who assembled Tony Stark, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and the Hulk to form the Avengers.

Most recently, Jackson reprised his role as Fury in Marvel's "Secret Invasion" series which follows a group of shape-shifting aliens called Skrulls, who have secretly infiltrated Earth for years and are planning to take it over as their own.

After playing Anakin Skywalker's love interest in the "Star Wars" films, Portman headed to another galaxy far, far away as Thor's romantic interest in the character's first two Marvel movies. 

Portman reprised her role in "Thor: Love and Thunder" where she gained the powers of Thor.

Mendelsohn was ruthless as "Star Wars" villain Orson Krennic.

He usually plays a lot of villains, so it was a nice surprise to see his Skrull character, Talos, turn out to be one of the good guys in "Captain Marvel."

The actor reprised his Skrull role briefly in "Spider-Man: Far From Home" and showed up in "Secret Invasion."

During her tenure as Daenerys Targaryen, Clarke played Qi'ra, Han Solo's early love interest, in "Solo: A Star Wars Story."

In Marvel's "Secret Invasion," Clarke plays Talos' estranged daughter, G'iah, who's currently aligned with a radical group of Skrulls who want to conquer Earth.

After playing Tony Stark's artificial intelligence for years, Bettany thought he was done with the MCU after a producer told him he'd never work in Hollywood again. Then he received a call asking if he wanted to play Vision.

Though he "died" in "Avengers: Infinity War," Bettany reprised his role as Vision on Disney+' "WandaVision" series.

After his MCU roles, Bettany was cast in 2016's "Solo: A Star Wars Story" as villain Dryden Vos after director Ron Howard took over the movie. "Solo" was originally supposed to have a different villain, but Michael K. Williams couldn't return for reshoots. 

In the second season of "The Mandalorian," Dawson played a live-action version of Ahsoka Tano. The character first appeared in "Star Wars: Clone Wars" and "Star Wars: Rebels." 

Dawson played nurse Claire Temple on "Daredevil" and "Luke Cage."

Dawson returned to play Ahsoka Tano in the Disney+ standalone series "Ahsoka."

Greenblatt made a surprise appearance on episode five of the "Ahsoka" series.

The character actor played the astrophysicist working with Jane Forster in the first "Thor" movie when they stumbled across the God of Thunder's existence.

Selvig briefly appeared in 2022's fourth "Thor" movie to consult Jane on her cancer treatments. 

In the "Rogue One" prequel series "Andor," Skarsgård plays Luthen Rael, an antique dealer whose secretly a member of the Rebel Alliance.

You may not have realized "The Walking Dead" actor played the young version of Rey in "The Force Awakens." 

A big Marvel fan, Fleming told Insider in 2021 she was thrilled to join the "Loki" series. She had no idea she was playing a young version of Sylvie until she watched the episode.

"Whenever I was filming, I only got my scenes," Fleming said of her time on the Marvel show. "I didn't get the script for the episode or anything. I had no idea what was going on."

Grant played General Enric Pryde in "The Rise of Skywalker."

He then played a variant of Loki, Classic Loki, in the first season of the Disney+ series.

The actor appeared briefly on the first season of "The Mandalorian" as Fennec Shand. Wen played Agent Melinda May on Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. from its 2013 debut until its 2020 end.

Wen is one of the few actors to have roles in "Star Wars," the MCU, and be a Disney princess. She voiced Mulan in the 1998 animated movie.

Isaac became a "Star Wars" fan favorite as debonair pilot Poe Dameron. It probably made most forget that he also played 2016 "X-Men" villain Apocalypse, a role in which he was pretty unrecognizable.

In 2022, he played antihero Moon Knight in the Disney+ Marvel series. 

You can spot John-Kamen as a First Order bridge officer briefly in "The Force Awakens." She later played Ava/Ghost in 2018's "Ant-Man" sequel.

John-Kamen will be back as Ghost in Marvel's "Thunderbolts*" movie.

Glover's version of Lando in "Solo: A Star Wars Story" showed off the character's array of fabulous capes and costumes.

Before that role, he briefly appeared in "Spider-Man: Homecoming" as Aaron Davis, the uncle of Miles Morales. In the comics, Aaron goes on to become The Prowler and also a character named Iron Spider.

Glover's briefly seen in 2023's "Across the Spider-Verse" animated film in human form as his "Homecoming" character who has since become the Prowler.

You may have forgotten that Jones appeared in the "Spider-Man" films with Andrew Garfield. Jones played Felicia Hardy in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," who goes on to become a thief named Black Cat.

You likely remember Jones in "Rogue One," where her Jyn character leads a rag-tag group in search of the plans to destroy the Death Star.

Mikkelsen's Galen Erso turned out to be the reason why the Death Star had a major design flaw.

Serkis played the mysterious Snoke character in "The Last Jedi" and the vibranium-obsessed Ulysses Klaue in both "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and, later, "Black Panther."

You may not have realized that Nyong'o was the voice behind the wise smuggler, who performed motion capture for her performance.

Nyong'o later appeared in "Black Panther" as Nakia, a member of Wakanda's intelligence agency and a former flame of T'Challa/Black Panther. She reprised her role in 2022's sequel, "Wakanda Forever."

Whitaker played resistance fighter Saw Gerrera in "Rogue One," "Star Wars: Rebels," and also voiced the character in the video game "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order."

In 2019, he appeared in "Black Panther" as Zuri, council to the king of Wakanda.

Benicio del Toro played the mysterious thief in "The Last Jedi," who betrayed Finn and Rose.

The actor previously appeared in the MCU as Taneleer Tivan (The Collector), a man obsessed with collecting rare objects and species in the galaxy.

The director of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, James Gunn, confirmed that Tivan survived an attack from Thanos in "Avengers: Infinity War" and sold Knowhere to the Guardians to make their HQ in the third film.

You may not have realized the "Neighbors" star was a handmaiden to Padmé Amidala in "The Phantom Menace" named Dormé. Bryne also appeared in "X-Men: First Class" and "X-Men: Apocalypse" as CIA agent Moira MacTaggert.

Tobias Beckett gave Han Solo his iconic blaster in the 2018 movie, "Solo."

Harrelson showed up at the end of "Venom" teasing his role as Cletus Kasady. In "Venom: Let There Be Carnage," he played the symbiote villain, Carnage, an arch nemesis of Venom. 

Not only did Favreau create and executive produce "The Mandalorian," he also voiced the character Rio Durant in "Solo."

Favreau also directed "Iron Man" and has played Tony Stark's trusted chauffeur and friend Happy Hogan since the 2008 film. Most recently, Hogan appeared in "Deadpool & Wolverine."

Darth Maul's moves are made possible on-screen because of Park. He returned to perform motion capture for Maul's fight scenes in 2020's animated "Clone Wars" Disney Plus series.

Right before he was Maul, Park could be seen alongside the other X-Men.

While Park played the physical embodiment of the character on-screen, behind the scenes, Serafinowicz spoke the character's few words of dialogue in "The Phantom Menace." Serafinowicz recorded lines for Maul in "Solo," but Lucasfilm wound up using actor Sam Witwer, who voiced Maul in the animated series.

You can also spot Serafinowicz as Garthan Saal, a high-ranking member of the Nova Corps, in "GotG." He's the character who memorably states that the Guardians are a bunch of "a-holes."

Henwick played a Resistance pilot named Jess Pava in "The Force Awakens." She later played martial arts expert Colleen Wing who helped train Danny Rand in Netflix's "Iron Fist" series.

Yen made everyone believe in the power of the Force as Chirrut Îmwe. Previously, he was Snowman, a vampire who initially was trained to hunt down Blade before becoming one of his allies.

The "Lost" actor appeared in the latest "Star Wars" trilogy as Admiral Statura. He was also in ABC's short-lived "Inhumans" series as Karnak.

Stamp had a minor role in the "Star Wars" prequel as Chancellor Valorum, who held authority before Chancellor Palpatine rose to power. He later played Stick in "Elektra," training Jennifer Garner's character.

Although James Earl Jones reprised his role as Darth Vader's voice in "Rogue One," Wilding played the character on screen as he cut down the rebels.

Two years earlier, he played the "mean guard" (the actual name in the film's credits) who took Peter Quill's Walkman and started listening to it.

You may not have recognized the "Hobbit" actor in "The Phantom Menace." He appeared briefly as a pilot. He later played Heinz Kruger in 2011's "Captain America: The First Avenger."

Schwartz told GQ "The Force Awakens" director J.J. Abrams asked him to help find a voice for BB-8. The "Parks and Rec" actor also shared a photo of himself as a Stormtrooper on Twitter in 2018.

Before voicing the loveable Sonic in the "Sonic the Hedgehog" franchise, the actor voiced 12-year-old Lou on Hulu's Marvel show "M.O.D.O.K." He's the son of the show's main villain, M.O.D.O.K. 

The "Breaking Bad" star is no stranger to playing the bad guy in both universes.

In "The Mandalorian" he plays the Darksaber-carrying Moff Gideon. In "Captain America: Brave New World" he's the gun-toting Sidewinder, a mercenary out for Cap along with his crew, The Serpent Society.