Shmi Skywalker

Shmi Skywalker Lars is a character from the film universe of Star Wars . He appears in episodes I and II of the saga, played by Swedish actress Pernilla August.

Biography

The human Shmi Skywalker was the mother of the famous Jedi Anakin Skywalker; She's grandmother of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa and great -grandmother of Ben Solo. He was a slave who had been brought to the planet Tatooine and was owned by a junk merchant named Watto.

Anakin Skywalker's birth was an event surrounded by mysteries. Shmi claimed to have conceived him alone, without a father; being able to interpret that it was the force that " fertilized " To the slave. His son grew skilled and competed in rotten races for several years, while his mother served his master.

One day some strangers arrived at the small port of Mos Espa (where Shmi and his son lived) and after doing deals with Watto, they manage to obtain Anakin's freedom. Thus, the teacher Qui-Gon Jinn takes Anakin Skywalker away from his mother with the promise of turning him into a Jedi.

For several years, Shmi Skywalker stays at Watto service, until a farmer appears. Cliegg Lars, her purchase, releases her and marries her. Thus, the following years, Shmi spends them in the extreme bliss, until a dire day goes out to collect fungi in the disturbance of the property in Tatooine. A group of inhabitants of the sands tend an ambush and capture it taking it to their camp.

Cliegg Lars assembles a search team that finally is a failure, almost all men die and he loses his right leg. Feeling all these events through force, Anakin decides to return to Tatooine. When he is in a situation in which he cannot abandon the mission of protecting Senator Padmé Amidala, he indicates with him to the planet while she would stay in Naboo but Padmé convinces Anakin to accompany him, in order to be able to go in search of his mother. Padmé from there stays with the Lars.

<p This event fills Anakin de Ira, destroying the camp of these inhabitants of the sands and killing in their path to men, women and children equally.

This event will mark Anakin's beginning to the dark side of force.

Anakin Skywalker's conception

Despite the attempt of some means to find a relationship between Shmi pregnancy and the Catholic dogma of the incarnation, when Shmi Skywalker states that Anakin was conceived " without father " She implies that she does not know the real causes of his pregnancy.