Ivanna Sakhno role leaked for Ahsoka TV series

News has come out that actress Ivanna Sakhno‘s role for the upcoming Ahsoka TV series has been revealed.

Making Star Wars reports that Ivanna will be playing a new character named Shin who reportedly wields the dark side of the Force. She’s also going to have connections with the Nightsisters who figured prominently in the Star Wars series “The Clone Wars”. It’s also been reported that Shin may actually be a former Nightsister herself which may or may not be explored in the series.

Some fans have already speculated that Shin is an apprentice of Baylon, one of the few Jedi that survived Order 66 by hiding in the “Unknown Regions”.

What’s fun about this bit of information is that with Baylon is also connected to Grand Admiral Thrawn, who many believe will be making an appearance at the Star Wars limited series.

Ahsoka is coming to Disney+ and written by Dave Filoni. It’s also being executive produced by Jon Favreau and Kathleen Kennedy. It will star Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker as well as Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ray Stevenson.

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