Killing Eve star Jodie Comer surprised fans when she turned up in 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in a pivotal role.
Jodie was revealed as Rey's mother, alongside Billy Howle as her father, a Palpatine clone, both of who were sadly murdered protecting a young Rey from her Sith Lord grandfather.
It was a hugely important role as the subject of Rey's parentage had been hotly debated among Star Wars fans ever since she first appeared in The Force Awakens.
But, while Comer as Rey's mother appeared in a flashback scene during a fight sequence between Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), we never actually got to find out her name.
Maybe this was all because of Ren's assertion to Rey that: "Your parents were no-one. They chose to be." But either way, the character does probably deserve a name.
Well, now she has one, as new tie-in novel Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher reveals Rey's parents are named Dathan and Miramir, as shown in an excerpt published in USA Today.
Yes, Dathan and Miramir. That's what you've been waiting for.
Set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, the novel offers some more insight into the characters as they try to evade capture.
But its main focus is on Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian, who we catch up with two decades after the Battle of Endor.
Here Skywalker senses a dark disturbance in the force and goes in search of the Sith planet of Exegol, while Calrissian is on his own mission to find his lost daughter.
Meanwhile, speaking of Rey's family tree, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently rubbished suggestions that Rey was ever meant to have a familial link to Obi-Wan Kenobi.
"The bigger issue is talking about Obi-Wan as a Master Jedi, and the issue of attachment and selflessness. In order for Obi-Wan to have a child, you are really, really impacting the rules around the Jedi. What does that mean?" she explained.
"If that were explored – and certainly there were a lot of ideas being thrown around – but anything to do with Obi-Wan in that regard was pretty much off the table because it flies in the face of everything George [Lucas] created in the mythology.
"We're not rigid about it. It's certainly open for discussion all the time. But that's a pretty significant tenet in the mythology of the Jedi that we'd be reluctant to mess with."
Shadow of the Sith is released on June 28 and it is available to pre-order now from Amazon.
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