Skip Navigation
  • TikTokTikTok
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Star Wars KidsStar Wars Kids
Star Wars Logo

Search

My AccountLogout
Skip Navigation
  • NEWS + FEATURES
    • THE LATEST
    • THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU
    • QUIZZES + POLLS
    • BOOKS + COMICS
  • VIDEO
  • FILMS
    • All FILMS
    • THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU
  • SERIES
    • All Series
    • Ahsoka
    • MAUL - SHADOW LORD
    • The Mandalorian
  • GAMES + INTERACTIVE
    • View All
    • Games + Apps
    • VR + Interactive
  • DATABANK
    • ALL DATABANK
    • GALAXY MAP
    • ERAS
  • DISNEY+
    • STREAM NOW
    • THE DISNEY BUNDLE
  • MoreMore
Local Nav | Current
Local Nav | Current
My AccountLogout
  • TikTokTikTok
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
  • Star Wars KidsStar Wars Kids
STAR WARS | DISNEY+STAR WARS ON DISNEY+

After Padmé Amidala's death, Obi-Wan Kenobi brought the infant Luke Skywalker to the Lars moisture farm on Tatooine, where Anakin's mother Shmi had lived. There, Owen and Beru Lars raised him as their stepson, telling Luke his father had been a navigator on a spice freighter.

© 2015 Disney

Luke Skywalker Biography Gallery

  • 50 Images
    • After Padmé Amidala's death, Obi-Wan Kenobi brought the infant Luke Skywalker to the Lars moisture farm on Tatooine, where Anakin's mother Shmi had lived. There, Owen and Beru Lars raised him as their stepson, telling Luke his father had been a navigator on a spice freighter.
    • Luke yearned for adventure among the stars, but was stuck on the farm as his friends left to become star pilots at the Imperial Academy. Uncle Owen always seemed to need him for one more season, and Luke knew his efforts could be the difference between the farm succeeding or failing.
    • But Luke's destiny would soon find him. When Jawa scavengers arrived, Owen bought two droids -- C-3PO and R2-D2 -- to help on the farm. Luke had no idea the droids were refugees from a desperate Rebel mission, or that they were bound up with the secret of his past.
    • While cleaning Artoo, Luke stumbled across a fragment of a recording in which a beautiful young woman pleaded for Obi-Wan Kenobi to help her. Luke didn't know anyone named Obi-Wan, but old Ben Kenobi was a hermit who lived in the Jundland Wastes.
    • Artoo escaped, but Luke caught up with him -- and was rescued from Tusken Raiders by Ben. The message turned out to be from Princess Leia Organa, a Rebel leader (and Luke's secret sister), who had placed the plans for the Death Star -- a terrible Imperial battle station -- in Artoo's memory banks. Leia begged Kenobi to bring the droid to Bail Organa on Alderaan.
    • Ben told Luke his father had been a Jedi Knight, and been murdered by Darth Vader. He also gave Luke an heirloom -- his father's lightsaber, the weapon of a Jedi Knight.
    • The Empire was searching for the droids too, and they murdered Luke's aunt and uncle. A heartbroken Luke agreed to go with Obi-Wan to Alderaan and learn the ways of the Force. The two hired the smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca to take them from Tatooine to Alderaan. Onboard, Luke took his first steps to becoming a Jedi Knight.
    • Han and Chewie's ship, the Millennium Falcon, was captured by the Death Star, which had destroyed Alderaan. As Obi-Wan tried to free the Falcon, Luke discovered Princess Leia was a prisoner aboard the station and convinced Han and Chewie to try and rescue her.
    • Luke, Han and Chewie saved Leia, but Obi-Wan was intercepted by Darth Vader, his former Padawan. After a saber duel with Vader, Obi-Wan sacrificed himself to give Luke time to get away on the Falcon.
    • At their base on Yavin 4, the Rebels analyzed the Death Star plans and launched a desperate mission, attacking the station with dozens of small starfighters. Hearing Obi-Wan's voice telling him to use the Force, Luke trusted his instincts to tell him when to fire a pair of proton torpedoes at the Death Star's lone vulnerable point.
    • The shot went home, destroying the Death Star in a spectacular fireball. The Rebellion had been saved, and Luke was now its greatest hero.
    • After the Battle of Yavin, Luke flew an X-wing, performed missions for the Alliance and worked to improve his nascent abilities with the Force. He joined the rebel operative Nakari Kelen on a dangerous mission to extract the Givin cryptographer Drusil Bephorin from Imperial custody on Denon. The mission succeeded, but cost Kelen her life.
More From Star Wars:
  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
  • SWKids
  • Terms of Use
  • Additional Content Information
  • Privacy Policy
  • Children's Online Privacy Policy
  • Your US State Privacy Rights
  • Disney Store | Star Wars
  • Star Wars Helpdesk
  • Interest-Based Ads
  • Your Privacy Choices

TM & © Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved