Joe Hewetson

Joe Hewetson (born in 1999) is an actor who portrays a Resistance officer in the 2019 film Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker. He is the son of Nina Gold, UK Casting Director for The Rise of Skywalker and Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi; and Greenpeace activist Frank Hewetson. At the time of January 2020, he only has one more screen credit to his name, as Maester Helliweg in the Game of Thrones episode "The Wars to Come" (2015), a show which his mother also worked on. In 2019, he appeared in a charity one-off play exploring mental health issues in young people, at the West End theatre in London.