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Stylised original portrait plate for Luminara Unduli

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Luminara Unduli

Thought to have died in Order 66; actually kept alive in a cell and used as bait.

Species
Mirialan
Homeworld
Mirial
Affiliation
Jedi Order
Rank
Jedi Master
First appearance
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (2002)
Portrayed by
Mary Oyaya
Command
41st Elite Corps

Luminara Unduli is a green-skinned Mirialan Jedi Master from Mirial, introduced in Attack of the Clones (2002) and played by Mary Oyaya. She commanded the 41st Elite Corps in the Clone Wars, fought at Geonosis and Kashyyyk, and trained Barriss Offee — Mirialan Jedi traditionally taking Mirialan padawans.

She is written as the Order's discipline personified: precise, unhurried, faintly severe, the master everyone assumes will produce the model apprentice. That her padawan becomes the Order's most articulate internal critic is the kind of irony The Clone Wars was good at and mostly left unstated.

Her fate is one of the nastiest in canon. She did not die in Order 66. The Empire took her alive, executed her later, and — as StarWars.com's databank entry states — used holographic transmissions of her captivity as bait to draw surviving Jedi out of hiding. Star Wars Rebels plays that out on screen when Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger walk into the trap and find her remains in the cell.

It is a small, cruel piece of worldbuilding that says more about the Empire's methods than any number of Star Destroyers: the corpse of a Jedi Master, kept on file, still working.

On the record

Appearances

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

Appearances of Luminara Unduli
WorkYearMediumNote
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones2002FilmFirst appearance.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars2008TelevisionRecurring.
Star Wars Rebels2014TelevisionHer death is revealed as an Imperial trap.