A Disney+ series based around the adventures of Rosario Dawson's Ahsoka Tano was confirmed to be in development during Disney's Investors Day last year, and while official details are still few and far between, several established Star Wars characters have been rumored to appear. Now, we can add Barriss Offee to the list.
The Illuminerdi reports that the former Jedi and one-time close ally of Ahsoka is set to return in the upcoming The Mandalorian spinoff, and Lucasfilm is currently searching for an Asian actress to play her. Offee was previously voiced by Meredith Salenger in The Clone Wars and played by Nalini Krishan in Attack of The Clones.
Barriss trained as a Padawan with Ahsoka and eventually graduated to Jedi Knight. However, she became disillusioned with the Jedi Order and ultimately ended up betraying her friend by framing her for bombing the Jedi Temple. When we last saw her, she was being led away after confessing to the attack.
Her fate was left unclear, but there's a lot of speculation that she ended up joining the Empire, possibly as an Inquisitor. Whatever the case may be, it makes a lot of sense for this character to return for a face-off with her old ally.
A rumored logline for the series tells us that: “Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) is on the hunt for the evil Grand Admiral Thrawn in the hope it will help her locate the missing Ezra Bridger, the young Jedi that disappeared with Thrawn many years ago.”
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