{"id":1945901,"date":"2025-08-07T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1945901"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:06:12","slug":"who-is-new-star-wars-villain-matt-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/who-is-new-star-wars-villain-matt-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is New Star Wars Villain Matt Smith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">You may have heard that actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1741002\/\">Matt Smith<\/a> has recently been cast as a villain in <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28069611\/\">Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a><\/em>, starring opposite <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0331516\/\">Ryan Gosling<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5301405\/\">Mia Goth<\/a>. Starfighter will be released on May 28, 2027. This marks the second theatrical release after <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2527338\/\">Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker<\/a><\/em>, following director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0269463\/\">Jon Favreau<\/a>\u2019s <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30825738\/\">The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/a><\/em>, which is planned for May 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is no stranger to playing the villain, and with a multitude of alien races in the Star Wars universe, it\u2019s hard to know how he&#8217;ll show up as he faces off against Gosling. So, who is Matt Smith? Here are some of the actor&#8217;s most well-known roles, pulled from his IMDb page.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0436992\/\">Doctor Who<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the long-running BBC science fiction series, a relatively unknown Smith landed the coveted title role as the Eleventh Doctor after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0855039\/\">David Tennant<\/a>&#8216;s exit from the show in 2010. His primary run as Doctor Who spanned Seasons 5, 6, and 7.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4786824\/\">The Crown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Smith earned his first Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Prince Philip in the Netflix series &#8220;The Crown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11198330\/\">House of the Dragon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smith is most recently known for embodying the ruthless Prince Daemon Targaryen on HBO\u2019s &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0944947\/\">Game of Thrones<\/a>&#8221; spin-off &#8220;House of the Dragon.&#8221; He is slated to return for Season 3 of the series, which is currently in production.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9639470\/\">Last Night in Soho<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0942367\/\">Edgar Wright<\/a> (<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0365748\/\">Shaun of the Dead<\/a><\/em>, <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0425112\/\">Hot Fuzz<\/a><\/em>) cast Smith in his psychological horror film <em>Last Night in Soho<\/em>, also starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5896355\/\">Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5057169\/\">Thomasin McKenzie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5108870\/\">Morbius<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of Sony&#8217;s extended Spider-Man universe, Smith took another villain role in 2022&#8217;s <em>Morbius<\/em>, playing opposite <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001467\/\">Jared Leto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1741002\/\">See Matt Smith&#8217;s entire filmography on IMDb<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard that actor Matt Smith has recently been cast as a villain in Star Wars: Starfighter, starring opposite Ryan Gosling and Mia Goth. Starfighter will be released on May 28, 2027. This marks the second theatrical release after Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, following director Jon Favreau\u2019s The Mandalorian and Grogu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1945902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1945901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Who-Is-New-Star-Wars-Villain-Matt-Smith.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}