How old was Mark Hamill in A New Hope?

American actor, Mark Hamill was 26 years old when he starred in Star Wars: A New Hope as Luke Skywalker, which was his first role in the franchise. The episode was released in 1977.

After the episode wrapped filming, Hamill was involved in a terrible accident that left him with a fractured nose and cheekbones, and had to have facial reconstruction surgery eventually.

“I was way out in the sticks somewhere and there were no cars and no traffic, thank God. I was going about 65-70 mph… I was speeding, going too fast… and what happened, I think, was that I tried to negotiate an off-ramp and lost control, tumbled over, and went off-road,” he said in an interview in 1978.

After a successful recovery, he went on to star in other Star Wars movies, documentaries, and other collections including Star Wars Holiday Special, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Making of Star Wars, Empire of Dreams: The Story of Star Wars Trilogy, From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga, The Mandalorian Season 2, and more.