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    Lando Calrissian

    Lando Calrissian may have come late to the fight against the Empire, but his role in destroying the second Death Star cemented his reputation as a hero. In his youth, Lando was a sportsman seeking a fortune at the sabacc tables. After he lost his beloved ship to Han Solo, Lando spent years living the high life and pursuing get-rich-quick schemes, with uneven results. He went semi-respectable as the baron administrator of Cloud City, only to be drawn into the fight against the Empire. After a personal tragedy, Lando sought solace in isolation on Pasaana, unaware that the galaxy would need him again.

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Appearances
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V)
  • Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI)
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Episode IX)
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story
  • Star Wars Rebels
  • Star Wars Pinball: Solo: A Star Wars Story
  • Star Wars Arcade
Affiliations
  • Rebel Alliance
  • The Resistance
Locations
  • Bespin
  • Cloud City
  • Numidian Prime
  • Pasaana
Gender
  • Male
Dimensions
  • Height: 1.78m
species
  • Human
Vehicles
  • Millennium Falcon
Weapons
  • SE-14 blaster pistol

History

Lando gambling on Vandor

Nearly a decade after the Clone Wars, Lando Calrissian claimed he was retiring from a happily misspent youth as a smuggler to become a full-time gambler (he preferred the term "sportsman"), shuffling from card game to card game across the galaxy. On Vandor, Lando bet his ship – a beautifully refurbished freighter called the Millennium Falcon – against one owned by a cocky former Imperial pilot named Han Solo.

L3-37 standing with Lando Calrissian

Lando won the sabacc pot and Han’s ship, which he wasn’t particularly surprised to discover didn’t exist. He agreed to join up with Han’s gang for a risky but potentially lucrative raid on Kessel, accompanying them aboard the Falcon with pilot droid L3-37. Soon afterwards, Lando lost the Falcon to Han in a rematch of their earlier sabacc game.

During the job, L3-37 instigated a revolt of both prisoners and droid slaves, but was irreparably damaged in the process. Uploading what remained of her navicomputer databanks to the Millennium Falcon, the rest of the crew was able to escape in a dangerous Kessel Run shortcut and plot a course to Savareen.

Lando Calrissian gambling on Numidian Prime

Injured, his once pristine vessel a smoking hunk of junk, and his friend and co-pilot lost, Lando retreated with what was left of his ship. But it wasn’t the last he would see of Han Solo. On Numidian Prime, he lost the Falcon to Han in a rematch game of sabacc in which his own cheat was used against him.

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At the popular Lothal cantina, Old Jho's, Lando Calrissian engaged in a high-stakes game of sabacc with Zeb Orrelios of the Ghost crew. The hot-headed Lasat, confident in his hand, bet his rebel crew's droid, Chopper. Lando, however, had an Idiot's Array, shocking Zeb. "Name's Calrissian. Lando Calrissian," he said. "Now introduce me to my new droid."

While Lando had rightfully won the astromech, he agreed to return Chopper -- and pay extra -- for passage past Lothal's Imperial blockade to a secret meeting. The rebels agreed, though they were dubious of their new companion. Sure enough, when the group rendezvoused with crime lord Azmorigan, Lando offered up Hera, captain of the Ghost, in exchange for a mysterious package containing, of all things, a puffer pig. The crew was furious, but the smooth-talking smuggler claimed that he had hinted to Hera that she could escape via a pod. The Twi'lek eventually did, though she thanked Calrissian with a swift punch to the gut upon reconnecting with the Ghost.

Finally, the team took Lando back to his Lothal property. He explained that a puffer pig can detect more precious minerals than a dozen mining scanners, making it quite valuable. But before he could settle with the rebels, Azmorigan and his henchmen emerged. The gangster wanted revenge on Calrissian, and the two sides battled fiercely. Hera gained the upper hand on Azmorigan, and demanded he leave -- or die. The crime lord agreed, and with the ordeal over, Lando returned Chopper to the team. "'Til we meet again," he said, as they blasted off.

Leia Organa and Chewbacca interrogating Lando Calrissian on Bespin

After his smuggling days Lando turned respectable, becoming administrator of Cloud City, a Tibanna gas installation in the atmosphere of the planet Bespin. But Lando hadn’t gone entirely legitimate -- Cloud City was a small operation whose backers preferred to avoid the attention of the Empire. Lando’s days as a businessman came to an end when Darth Vader arrived, accompanied by stormtroopers and Boba Fett. Vader was hunting Han and the crew of the Falcon, and told Lando they’d soon arrive on Cloud City. He offered Lando a bleak choice: set a trap for his old friend or face the Empire’s wrath. Lando welcomed Han when he arrived and agreed to help repair the Falcon’s hyperdrive – but then turned him and his companions over to Vader. After Vader repeatedly reneged on their deal, though, Lando had had enough, and decided to switch sides. He rescued Princess Leia and Chewbacca from the Empire and tried to save Han from Fett’s clutches. The bounty hunter got away with his prize, but Lando helped the others reach safety with the rebel fleet and joined Chewbacca in the search for Solo.

Lando Calrissian before the Battle of Endor

Flying with Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian discovered that Boba Fett had taken Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine. Posing as a thug for hire, Lando infiltrated the palace. He watched anxiously as the droids, Princess Leia, Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker arrived and were taken into custody, but knew it wasn’t time to reveal himself. Still in disguise, Lando accompanied Jabba’s sail barge to the Great Pit of Carkoon for the rebels’ execution. On Luke’s signal, he joined the fight to free their friends and bring Jabba’s criminal career to an end. Having kept his promise to save Han, Lando then remained in the rebel ranks, serving as a general in the starfighter attack on the second Death Star. Han lent Lando the Millennium Falcon for this dangerous mission, and Lando showed off his superb piloting skills, guiding the freighter into the Death Star superstructure and reaching the main reactor. He fired proton torpedos into the reactor and raced out of the battle station’s innards just before it exploded, breaking the Empire’s stranglehold on the galaxy.

Lando Calrissian on Pasaana

Now a bona fide hero and at least mostly respectable, Lando settled down and started a family, only to have his infant daughter vanish – kidnapped, he later discovered, by First Order agents. Reeling from his loss, Lando accompanied Luke on a mission to Pasaana and found comfort in the company of the Aki-Aki. He decided to stay in hopes of finding solace, unaware that he would once again be called to fight the forces of evil.

Lando flying the Falcon

Lando considered himself retired as a pilot and freedom fighter, but found he couldn’t ignore the Resistance as it battled the resurrected Emperor Palpatine. Reuniting with Chewbacca and the Falcon, he gathered a citizens’ fleet of civilian starships and led it to Exegol, arriving in time to turn the tide and ensure a Resistance victory. 

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Lando Calrissian Biography Gallery

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    • After a happily misspent youth, Lando Calrissian declared he’d retired from the smuggling life to...
    • On Vandor, Lando bet the Falcon against a ship owned by a cocky former Imperial pilot named Han S...
    • The decision was one Lando would come to regret. Soon after the raid, he lost the Falcon to Han i...
    • Lando’s plan called for playing off the Ghost’s crew against the crime lord Azmorigan. It worked,...
    • Lando fell in with a new compatriot, Lobot, who awakened his oft-slumbering conscience. With Lobo...
    • Lando's guests did not know that Darth Vader and Boba Fett had appeared at Cloud City right befor...
    • As Vader tortured Han Solo, Lando learned that his friend would be given to the bounty hunter Bob...
    • After telling Han and Leia in secret about Vader's plans for them and for Skywalker, Lando watche...
    • Lando decided to take action. After organizing the release of Leia and Chewbacca from Vader's tro...
    • Lando aided in Leia and Chewbacca's escape, and ultimately in Luke's rescue from Cloud City. He t...
    • Once on Tatooine, Lando infiltrated Jabba's palace, disguising himself as a guard for hire. He wa...
    • After joining the Rebel Alliance, Lando was promoted to General, and asked to lead the starfighte...
  • After a happily misspent youth, Lando Calrissian declared he’d retired from the smuggling life to travel the galaxy aboard his refurbished freighter, the Millennium Falcon. Accompanied by pilot droid L3-37, Lando moved from card game to card game, cultivating an image as a smooth, sophisticated “sportsman.”

  • On Vandor, Lando bet the Falcon against a ship owned by a cocky former Imperial pilot named Han Solo. Lando won thanks to a trick up his sleeve, but Han’s ship turned out not to exist. Lando then agreed to join Han’s gang for a daring raid to steal unrefined coaxium from Kessel.

  • The decision was one Lando would come to regret. Soon after the raid, he lost the Falcon to Han in a rematch of their sabacc game. Years later, he met up with the crew of the Ghost on Lothal, enlisting their reluctant help in a scheme to acquire a puffer pig.

  • Lando’s plan called for playing off the Ghost’s crew against the crime lord Azmorigan. It worked, though an unhappy Hera Syndulla gave Lando a knee to the groin for his machinations. In the end, Lando got the puffer pig he needed to search out valuable minerals on Lothal, and new potential allies in the Ghost crew – whom he later helped escape an Imperial blockade.

  • Lando fell in with a new compatriot, Lobot, who awakened his oft-slumbering conscience. With Lobot as his assistant, Lando went semi-respectable, becoming the administrator of Cloud City and its under-the-radar mining operations. This new career went awry when Han re-entered his life, accompanied by the rebel leader Leia Organa. They appealed for help fixing the Falcon’s crippled hyperdrive. Lando welcomed them with apparent enthusiasm, greeting Leia with particular interest.

  • Lando's guests did not know that Darth Vader and Boba Fett had appeared at Cloud City right before they had. Lando turned Han, Leia, and the Wookiee Chewbacca over to Vader and the bounty hunter, believing he was making a deal that would save Cloud City from Empire occupation. He thought that Vader would not harm the captives but use them as bait only, to capture Luke Skywalker.

  • As Vader tortured Han Solo, Lando learned that his friend would be given to the bounty hunter Boba Fett. The deal, he realized, was getting worse all the time. When Lando complained to Vader, the Sith Lord threatened to install a permanent Imperial garrison on Cloud City.

  • After telling Han and Leia in secret about Vader's plans for them and for Skywalker, Lando watched helplessly as Han was frozen in carbonite, and given to Boba Fett to take to the gangster Jabba the Hutt. After the freezing, Lando learned that Vader intended to take Leia and Chewbacca as his captives, and not leave them on Cloud City under Lando's protection.

  • Lando decided to take action. After organizing the release of Leia and Chewbacca from Vader's troops, he tried to save Han from Boba Fett. Before escaping from Cloud City he warned the population that the Empire had taken over, and urged them to evacuate.

  • Lando aided in Leia and Chewbacca's escape, and ultimately in Luke's rescue from Cloud City. He then joined in the bold plan to free Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, piloting the Falcon to Tatooine with Chewbacca.

  • Once on Tatooine, Lando infiltrated Jabba's palace, disguising himself as a guard for hire. He was inside the palace when Leia and Chewbacca, and then Luke, arrived to save Han, who was still in carbonite in the gangster's collection. During the daring rescue, Lando was almost devoured by the mighty Sarlacc, but survived and escaped the planet with his friends.

  • After joining the Rebel Alliance, Lando was promoted to General, and asked to lead the starfighter attack on the new Death Star, which was being constructed near the planet Endor.

  • Han Solo loaned Lando the Millennium Falcon to fly in the attack. Together with co-pilot Nien Nunb, and with help from pilot Wedge Antilles, Lando flew into the center of the great battle station, and blew up the main reactor, escaping the ensuing explosion with his life, the ship, and mere moments to spare.

  • After the Battle of Endor, Lando settled down and started a family, but suffered a terrible tragedy when his infant daughter vanished – kidnapped, he’d later discover, by First Order agents. Years later, Lando traveled with Luke to Pasaana on the trail of Ochi of Bestoon. Their hunt ended in failure, but Lando found solace in the company of Pasaana’s Aki-Aki and decided to stay, keeping an uncharacteristically low profile.

  • At the Festival of Ancestors, Lando spotted his old friend Chewbacca and intervened to help the Wookiee and his friends escape the clutches of the First Order. When he discovered Rey had taken up Luke’s hunt for Ochi, he directed them to the site of the relic hunter’s abandoned ship. But he rebuffed Rey’s suggestion that Leia needed pilots, telling her his flying days were long gone.

  • But Lando found he couldn’t ignore his old friend in her time of need – or close his eyes to the threat posed by the resurrected Emperor Palpatine. He made his way to Ajan Kloss, where he paid his respects to Leia’s memory and helped Poe rally the Resistance. Lando agreed to take the Millennium Falcon and entreat the citizens of the galaxy to join the fight against Palpatine and his Sith minions.

  • The galaxy heard Lando’s plea, and he and Chewie flew to Exegol at the head of a huge hodgepodge of starships. This citizens’ fleet evened up the odds, and helped the Resistance defeat Palpatine’s Sith armada. Outpacing Poe’s X-wing in the Falcon, Lando then rescued Finn and Jannah from the deck of a doomed Star Destroyer.

  • The Resistance forces returned to Ajan Kloss to celebrate this momentous victory. But Lando was curious about Jannah and her mysterious past. Perhaps the two of them could find the answers she sought.

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      Becoming Solo - Solo: A Star Wars Story

    • Scoundrels - Solo: A Star Wars Story 2:09

      Scoundrels - Solo: A Star Wars Story

    • Making Solo - Solo: A Star Wars Story 1:28

      Making Solo - Solo: A Star Wars Story

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      "Han Meets Lando" - Solo: A Star Wars Story

    • Refreshments 1:11

      Refreshments

    • Cloud City Apartment 0:31

      Cloud City Apartment

    • Not a Scratch 0:50

      Not a Scratch

    • He's Only a Wookiee 1:05

      He's Only a Wookiee

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      Scoundrel School: Lando Calrissian Returns

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      Star Wars Rebels: "Introducing Azmorigan"

    • He Seems Very Friendly 1:24

      He Seems Very Friendly

Quotes

  • Quote - Lando Calrissian - No Good Swindler

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    “Why you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler!” THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

    “Why you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler!”

  • Quote - Lando Calrissian - Deal is Getting Worse

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    “This deal is getting worse all the time.” THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

    “This deal is getting worse all the time.”

  • Quote - Lando Calrissian - Come on Han, Old Buddy

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    "Come on, Han old buddy, don’t let me down!” RETURN OF THE JEDI

    "Come on, Han old buddy, don’t let me down!”

  • Quote - Lando Calrissian - Everything is True

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    "Everything you've heard about me is true." SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

    "Everything you've heard about me is true."

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    Never far from Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian's side was Lobot, Calrissian's aide and Cloud City's computer liaison officer. Lobot is a human male with a shiny, brain-enhancing device wrapped around the back of his skull that allowed him to contact directly with the city's central computer.

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