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Stylised original portrait plate for Enfys Nest

DossierHumanReign of the Empire

Enfys Nest

The film’s designated marauder, who turns out to be the only person in it with a cause.

Species
Human
Homeworld
Not established
Affiliation
Cloud-Riders
Rank
Leader of the Cloud-Riders
First appearance
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Continuity
Canon

Enfys Nest is the masked leader of the Cloud-Riders swoop gang, played by Erin Kellyman in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). StarWars.com introduces her the way the film does — as a threat whose "mask and armor hide all clues about the Cloud-Rider chief's identity and background", with motives that "are also a riddle".

The reveal that reframes the film

The riddle resolves about two-thirds of the way through: the marauders raiding Beckett's coaxium jobs are not pirates but a resistance, robbing shipments that would otherwise fund Crimson Dawn and the Empire, and their fearsome leader is a teenager. Everything the audience has been encouraged to assume about who the villains are gets rearranged in one scene.

Proto-Rebellion

Her function in the canon is to sit at the point where crime and insurgency are the same activity. The coaxium Han hands her at the end of the film is explicitly seed capital for a rebellion that does not exist yet — one of the clearest statements the saga has made that the Alliance was assembled out of smugglers, thieves and people with nothing left to lose.

Design

The helmet and the electroripper staff were built to read as menacing from a distance and improvised up close — salvage, not manufacture. It is a rare Star Wars costume that tells you the wearer's economics before you know anything else about them.

On the record

Appearances

Where this figure actually appears, with the medium and the year. Nothing inferred.

Appearances of Enfys Nest
WorkYearMediumNote
Solo: A Star Wars Story2018FilmFirst appearance. Played by Erin Kellyman.