One may not notice this from watching the movie, but Shirley Henderson voices Babu Frik in J.J. Abrams' 2019 film "Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker." Babu Frik, as most "Star Wars" fans would be able to tell you, is an Anzellan engineer who stands roughly nine inches tall. In "The Rise of Skywalker," the character meddles with the brain of the protocol droid C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) to assist the movie's protagonists. Babu Frik doesn't play a huge part in the film's story, but he is one of its most memorable additions.

Henderson is a veteran of the stage and screen, having begun her professional acting career in the mid-1980s. Throughout the 1990s, she appeared on several notable British TV shows and gained international attention thanks to her roles in films like "Rob Roy"

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