The Best 12 Ming Na Wen Star Wars Character - Meet Fennec Shand, a character in Ming-Na Wen's The Mandalorian. Wen will play an assassin who "made her name committing murder for the galaxy's top crime syndicates" and "crosses paths with Pedro Pascal's masked bounty hunter midway through the first season," according to Vanity Fair. First Impressions: Ming-Na Wen's Mandalorian Star Wars Assassin The actor plays Fennec Shand, a merciless sharpshooter, as revealed in this exclusive video and interview. November, by Anthony Breznican
Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, plays the series' title character Boba Fett, and Ming-Na Wen reprises her role as Fennec Shand, who first appeared in The Mandalorian. The Book of Boba Fett, which premieres in December 2021, picks up where Season 2 of The Mandalorian left off. Ming-Na Wen, who plays bounty hunter Fennec Shand in Star Wars: The Mandalorian, was made aware of the character's first LEGO Minifigure earlier in 2021. She quickly took to Twitter to express her delight at the brick-built iteration.
Ming-Na ("enlightenment") was born on the island of Macau, forty miles northwest of Hong Kong. Lin Chan Wen, Ming-mother, Na's divorced her father when she was a toddler. Jonathan, her older brother, is her only sibling. Following the divorce, they relocated to Hong Kong, where her mother worked as a nurse. There, her mother met Soo Lim Yee, a businessman from the United States. They soon discovered that the name of Wen's character was inspired by the fennec fox, a small foraging animal with large ears that lives in small communities. "She's cunning, and yet she's able to maneuver, survive, and thrive."
