Everything We Know About Rey’s Parents In Star Wars (& Why Rey Isn’t Really Palpatine’s Granddaughter)

Despite their brief appearance in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, the parents of Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker have an important Star Wars history, and it explains many things about Rey’s own character. Following her debut in The Force Awakens, Rey’s parents quickly became a hot topic among Star Wars viewers, generating many theories of who might have been the ones to leave her behind on the desolate planet of Jakku. When The Last Jedi insisted they were simply “no one,” this idea wasn’t bought, and the theories continued in a fun madness that even received a spoof promotional video by Star Wars in 2019, where multiple actors from the franchise tried to get Daisy Ridley to tell them her parental secret ahead of The Rise of Skywalker.