Are You Ready? Here's the Cast of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

McDiarmid, 74, has played the iconic villain four out of the five times the character has appeared in the franchise — Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. Since Snoke has (presumably) been eliminated for good thanks to the end of The Last Jedi, Palpatine is a fittingly familiar face to bring back.