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Actor, Ian McDiarmid, was born on Aug 11, 1944 in Carnoustie, Tayside. As of December 2025, Ian McDiarmid was 81 years old.

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Ian McDiarmid Facts
The makeup he had to wear in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) took about two hours to apply and two to take off. By the end of principal photography, the makeup artists had been able to get it on in an hour and a half.
In 1982, he played "Harry Hackamore", a Howard Hughes-type character, in the play, "Seduced", by 'Sam Shepard (I)'. This showed his ability to convincingly play, in close-up, a character much older than himself. This is what attracted the attention of George Lucas and Richard Marquand, who decided that he could play the "Emperor" in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), which was already in production at the time.
Is the first actor in the Star Wars films to both physically play a Sith Lord, and provide the voice.
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