Name Femi Taylor Role Dancer | Siblings Benedict Taylor Nephews Jay Taylor | |
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Parents Richard Taylor, Allegra Taylor Nieces Kalila Taylor, Freya Taylor Movies Star Wars: Episode VI ‑ Return o, Cats, Flirting, Playing Away, A Kink in the Picasso Similar People Benedict Taylor, Kenneth Colley, Allegra Taylor, Richard Marquand, Larry Ward | ||
Femi taylor oola interview
Femi Taylor is a Nigerian-born British dancer and actress best known for portraying Jabba the Hutt's Twi'lek slave dancer Oola in the 1983 motion picture Return of the Jedi.
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Interview femi taylor at planet comicon 2014
Career
Taylor portrayed the slave dancer Oola in Return of the Jedi, the last film of the original trilogy. She reprised the part fourteen years later, filming new scenes for the 1997 Special Edition release, and was the only performer from the original to do so. Because of this role, she appears at science fiction and Star Wars conventions around the world.
Taylor was cast as Tantomile in the 1981 original London production of the musical Cats, during which she learned she had been cast as Oola for Return of the Jedi. She appeared in the 1998 TV movie version of Cats as Exotica, a character that was created specially for her and exclusively for the film.
Personal life
Her brother, Benedict Taylor, played fighter pilot Bravo 2 in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
Femi lives in London and Denmark, has two children and is in a relationship with her Danish partner Claus Skytte Kamper.