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Suotamo is mostly known for his role as Chewbacca in the Star Wars franchise, a role in which he started out being a body double for the original actor Peter Mayhew in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), as Mayhew's age and worsening health was making it more difficult for him to fill the role.
Joonas Suotamo was born on 3 October 1986 in Espoo, Finland. He is an actor, known for Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015). He is married to Milla Pohjasvaara.
Joonas became Chewbacca in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and continued throughout the last chapter of the Skywalker trilogy, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. He is currently set to return to the Star Wars galaxy, this time as a new character in the highly anticipated show 'The Acolyte'.
Mar 21, 2018 · Stepping into the role of Chewbacca, Joonas Suotamo had -- both literally and figuratively -- some pretty big shoes to fill. (Not Chewie's, of course -- he doesn't wear any.) We're talking about those of Peter Mayhew, the 7-foot-2 actor who played the world's favorite Wookiee since 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope.
May 8, 2019 · Peter Mayhew, who died April 30 at 74, made Chewbacca unique just by being real, says new Chewbacca actor Joonas Suotamo.
May 24, 2018 · When 31-year-old Finnish actor Joonas Suotamo first stepped into the role of Star Wars’ towering, hairy Wookiee character Chewbacca for 2015’s The Force Awakens, he repeatedly dodged press ...
May 25, 2018 · The 31-year-old entertainer from Espoo, Finland has been playing the mighty Chewbacca for nearly half a decade now, taking the reins of the iconic Wookiee from the gentle and gigantic...
Jun 4, 2018 · Having transitioned into the role in The Force Awakens, Finnish actor Joonas Suotamo fully took over for Peter Mayhew as the Millennium Falcon’s co-pilot in The Last Jedi. And in...
Joonas Suotamo was born on 3 October 1986 in Espoo, Finland. He is an actor, known for Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).
Dec 3, 2017 · Suotamo, 31, a former basketball player for Penn State and the Finnish youth national team, says it was “great to share" screen time with Ford, but the real fun for the 7-foot actor...
