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Stylised original portrait plate for Zorii Bliss

DossierHumanRise of the First Order

Zorii Bliss

Ran the spice crew Poe Dameron abandoned, and made him say the word "spice runner" out loud in front of his friends.

Species
Human
Homeworld
Kijimi
Affiliation
Spice Runners of Kijimi
First appearance
Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Continuity
Canon
Played by
Keri Russell
Organisation
Spice Runners of Kijimi
Backstory source
Poe Dameron: Free Fall (2020)

Zorii Bliss is a human leader among the Spice Runners of Kijimi, and a former associate of Poe Dameron from the years before he joined the Resistance. Keri Russell plays her, entirely in a helmet.

Poe's past, made concrete

Her function in The Rise of Skywalker (2019) is to retroactively give Poe a criminal history — he ran spice for her crew as a teenager and left without warning. It is a late addition to the character and the film handles it briskly, but it does land one good beat: Poe's friends learning this about him in real time, and Finn enjoying it considerably.

Kijimi

The planet is a cold, cramped mountain city under First Order occupation, and Zorii's operation is the sort of organised crime that functions as de facto local government where the occupier does not bother to govern. She has no interest in the Resistance as a cause. She helps because of Poe, and because she wants off the planet.

The novel

Alex Segura's Poe Dameron: Free Fall (Disney Lucasfilm Press, 2020) is the source for most of what is actually known about her, filling in the spice-running years and giving her the surname Wynn. Her survival of Kijimi's destruction is established by her reappearance at Exegol.

On the record

Appearances

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

Appearances of Zorii Bliss
WorkYearMediumNote
Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker2019FilmFirst appearance. Played by Keri Russell.
Poe Dameron: Free Fall2020NovelAlex Segura. Establishes the spice-running years.