Character ages - Yoda's Datapad

Star Wars Character Ages
I put together this table to help you figure out how old any given character is in any of the movies. Ages and birthdates are based on official Lucasfilm or Lucasfilm-licensed sources. Characters are listed in alphabetical order using their whole known name without any titles or prefixes. If you can't find the character you're looking for, you can use the Search function of your browser to find it (CTRL+F on Windows computers). If the character you're looking for isn't on the list, you can Ask Yoda.

Episode I = The Phantom Menace (1999)
Episode II = Attack of the Clones (2002)
Episode III = Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Episode IV = Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Episode V = The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Episode VI = Return of the Jedi (1983)

Birthdates are given in years before the Battle of Yavin (B.B.Y.), which is in Episode IV.

Character	Birthdate			Age	in...
		Episode I	Episode II	Episode III	Episode IV	Episode V	Episode VI
Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader)	42 B.B.Y.*	9*	20	23	42	45	46
Boba Fett	32 B.B.Y.		10	13	32	35	36
C-3PO	32 B.B.Y.**	0	10	13	32	35	36
Chewbacca	200 B.B.Y.	168	178	181	200	203	204
Count Dooku	102 B.B.Y.	70	80	83
Darth Maul	54 B.B.Y.	22
Han Solo	29 B.B.Y.		7	10	29	32	33
Jabba the Hutt	600 B.B.Y.	568	578	581	600	603	604
Jango Fett	66 B.B.Y.	34	44
Jar Jar Binks	52 B.B.Y.	20	30	33
Lando Calrissian	31 B.B.Y.		9	12	31	34	35
Leia Organa	19 B.B.Y.†			0	19	22	23
Luke Skywalker	19 B.B.Y.†			0	19	22	23
Mace Windu	72 B.B.Y.	40	50	53
Obi-Wan Kenobi	57 B.B.Y.	25	35	38	57
Padmé Amidala	46 B.B.Y.	14	24	27
Palpatine	82 B.B.Y.	50	60	63	82	85	86
Qui-Gon Jinn	92 B.B.Y.	60
R2-D2	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Shmi Skywalker	72 B.B.Y.	40	50
Wedge Antilles	21 B.B.Y.			2	21	24	25
Yoda	896 B.B.Y.	864	874	877	896	899	900

*Anakin is 20 in Episode II, but he was 9 in Episode I, which took place ten years earlier. The explanation for this is that he turned ten right after Episode I, and the two movies are actually about ten years and one month apart.

**Older sources say that C-3PO was built 112 years before the Battle of Yavin, but this is apparently disproven in Episode I. However, it is still true from a certain point of view; Anakin built C-3PO largely from parts of a trashed protocol droid manufactured 80 years before.

†Older sources put Luke and Leia at 18 or 20 years old at the time of Episode IV, but we now know that they are born in Episode III, which takes places 19 years before.

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