A scavenger

Quote of today

"Ashkabadna"

A jawa seeing a lonely R2-D2.

A New Hope

Today we celebrate...

Melissa Kurtz at her 43rd birthday (born 1966)

Melissa Kurtz was born in North Carolina, USA and played a jawa in A New Hope. Her father, Gary Kurtz, is the producer of A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. Melissa was eleven years old when A New Hope was filmed and probably because of her father she and her three years younger sister got to play jawas.

Jawas are meter-tall scavengers living in the desert on Tatooine. They scurry around like rats completely hidden behind rough robes and with glowing yellow eyes.

Despite the impression that they are everywhere there ar no more than eight jawas in the movie (and in the credits).