Din Djarin Star Wars: Who He Is, Who Plays Him and What Happens

Din Djarin is a Mandalorian bounty hunter who travels with the foundling Grogu and works for the New Republic in The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026). His job is to hunt down the warlords left over from the Empire. The film names him in its story as Din Djarin, the Mandalorian, while its cast list credits him simply as The Mandalorian. That matters if you search for him by actor, because the name on the cast list is a title rather than a personal name.

The film credits Din Djarin to three performers: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Brendan Wayne (The Mandalorian Suit Performer) and Lateef Crowder (The Mandalorian Stunt Performer). Pascal is billed first in the cast.

On the timeline, The Mandalorian and Grogu is a spin-off, tenth in chronological order and thirteenth in release order. Jon Favreau directed it and Ludwig Göransson composed the score. For the child at the center of Din's story, see our profile of Grogu Star Wars.

In The Mandalorian and Grogu, Din moves from a routine hunt for an Imperial warlord to a rescue mission that nearly kills him. The Hutt Twins offer to give up the location of Lord Janu, who also goes by Commander Coin, if Din will retrieve Rotta, the son of Jabba the Hutt. Rotta is on the moon Shakari, where he fights as a gladiator and does not want to leave.

Din beats Rotta in the arena but spares his life. Janu floods the arena with monsters, and Din and Grogu manage to capture Rotta, who tells them that the warlord they want is Janu himself. Din raids Janu's compound, where the bounty hunter Embo catches him and hands him over to the Hutt Twins.

The Twins have Din poisoned by a Dragonsnake. Grogu saves him with an antidote from a fisherman, and the pair then sneak into the Twins' palace, where the Dragonsnake devours the Twins. Colonel Ward and the New Republic destroy the palace, and Rotta chooses to join the New Republic. The arc ends with Din teaching Grogu to fly the Razor Crest.

Din's closest relationship in the film is with Grogu, the foundling who travels with him and who, by the end, is learning to pilot the Razor Crest. Their partnership is also the practical engine of the plot, since Grogu is the one who finds the antidote when Din is poisoned.

His working relationship is with the New Republic, which employs him to hunt Imperial warlords. Sigourney Weaver plays Colonel Ward, the New Republic officer who leads the destruction of the Hutt Twins' palace. Rotta, voiced by Jeremy Allen White, begins as Din's target and ends as a New Republic recruit. Chronologically, Rotta first appears as the kidnapped infant son of Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), which is third in chronological order, so the film reaches back across the saga for him.

The opposition is a mixed group. The Hutt Twins use Din as an errand runner and then poison him, Embo hands him over to them, and Janu, played by Jonny Coyne, is the warlord Din is sent to find. Din and Boba Fett (The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Jeremy Bulloch) share no family tie.

Readers often ask about Moff Gideon, Mandalore and the Children of the Watch. None of the three has a part in the story of The Mandalorian and Grogu.

Din Djarin does not die in The Mandalorian and Grogu. He is poisoned by the Hutt Twins' Dragonsnake and survives only because Grogu brings him an antidote from a fisherman.

After the Twins are devoured and their palace is destroyed, Din is alive and well enough to fly the Razor Crest with Grogu, whom he is teaching to pilot the ship. He is alive when the film ends.

The best Din Djarin scene in The Mandalorian and Grogu is his arena duel with Rotta on Shakari, where he wins the fight and then spares his opponent. That single choice settles who Din is, and it pays off Rotta's history, since the character first appears as the kidnapped infant son of Jabba the Hutt in The Clone Wars (2008).

The second-best moment is Din's poisoning, which reverses the pair's roles because Grogu has to save him. Din, the protector, becomes the one who needs rescuing, and this beat does more for their partnership than any chase, since it is the only moment where Din depends entirely on Grogu.

The third-best moment is the closing lesson in the Razor Crest, where Din hands Grogu the controls. After a film of warlords, gladiators and a Dragonsnake, the final image is a father figure teaching a child to fly, a quiet set piece by comparison. If you are new to Din, this is the scene that tells you what the film thinks he is for. These rankings are our opinion.