(
52 -
22 BBY ) is a
Fictional Character from the ''
Star Wars ''
Universe , played by
Leeanna Walsman . She was a shapeshifting
Clawdite from the planet
Zolan , and occasionally partnered with
Jango Fett . Though a hideous, green-skinned reptile, Zam often appeared as a beautiful woman with short reddish-blonde hair, a tight-fitting purple bodysuit and a veil over her face. This turned out to be the case in ''
Attack Of The Clones ''.
Zam was born on Zolan, a member of the changeling Clawdite race that was constantly at war with the native
Zolanders , a race similar to the Clawdites but lacking their chameleon abilities. Zam was trained in the ways of the
Mabari , an ancient order of warrior-knights from Zolan. She left Zolan at a young age to work as a corporate security officer on
Denon , an
Ecumenopolis second only to
Coruscant . She rose from officer to sergeant to executive bodyguard in short time before she decided that she didn't earn enough and became a professional bounty hunter.
One of Zam's earliest missions was the capture of Bendix Fust, a smuggler wanted by
Malastarian Dug crime lord
Sebolto . Fust was an inmate at the infamous
Oovo IV asteroid prison, but that didn't stop Zam from breaking in, capturing him, and staging a riot in order to cover her escape. Unfortunately, the notorious Jango Fett had also broken in at the same time, for the same target. Their mutual interference botched their respective plans and they were forced to worked together to escape. Zam cost Jango his ship and he was forced to steal a prototype Firespray Patrol Craft, which he would eventually dub
Slave I .
They continued to collaborate after Fust was turned in to Sebolto. Jango had been working a larger job, tracking
Komari Vosa , a former
Jedi who had become the leader of the
Bando Gora cult. After Sebolto's clues led Jango and Zam to
Tatooine , Zam was forced to betray Jango to save herself from Gardulla the Hutt. Nevertheless, Jango escaped certain death and found what he needed from Gardulla, killing her as a favor to
Jabba The Hutt . For her treason, Jango left Zam in Gardulla's dungeon.
Somehow, she managed to escape and track Jango to one of the moons of
Bogden , headquarters of the Bando Gora. Jango was captured by Komari Vosa and only Zam's timely interference saved him, though her blasts were deflected by Vosa's twin lightsabers. Before Vosa could finish her, Zam blasted the bonds holding Jango, allowing him to rush for his weapons. Startled, Vosa fled, but not before Jango reached her and after a long battle, defeated her.
Though both Zam and Jango preferred working alone, they would team up from time to time over a period of ten years.
One of these times was when Zam and Jango teamed up to stop General Ashar Khorda, who intended to use a religious idol to destroy Coruscant. Tracking down Khorda, they fought in one of Coruscant's reactor relays, Zam killing some of the terrorists while Jango and the Jedi Master
Yarael Poof killed the others. Zam saved Coruscant by saving the idol when it fell off the relay. Yarael Poof then volunteered to disable it. Zam was the quickest to trust the
Jedi Master , and let him disable it, even though it cost him his life. She tipped off the
Jedi Council about the death of Yarael Poof before she and Jango took the idol back to it's rightful place. After returning to Kamino with Jango, she gave him a kiss on the cheek, before disappearing again.
Around ten years after they first met, Jango was hired by
Count Dooku and
Nute Gunray to assassinate Senator
Padmé Amidala . In order to keep the plot a secret, Jango sub-contracted the hit to Zam. At first, she planted explosives on the senator's landing platform, but killed her decoy instead. Jango then provided her with deadly kohoun worms, which she loaded into her assassin droid ASN-1 to slip them into the senator's bedroom. Unfortunately,
Anakin Skywalker and
Obi-Wan Kenobi used the droid to track her down and as she escaped in her personal speeder, they chased her through the skies of Coruscant, until Zam crash-landed near a seedy bar. She hid for a few moments and foolishly attempted to sneak up on Obi-Wan, but his Jedi reflexes allowed him literally to disarm her (cutting off her arms). When Anakin pressed Zam to reveal who had hired her, Jango was forced to silence her with a toxic dart.
Her appearances include the video game '''', the one-shot comics ''Jango Fett'' and ''Zam Wesell'', the children's books ''Jango Fett vs. the Razor Eaters'', ''The Shape Shifter Strikes'', ''Warlords of Balmorra'', and ''Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive'', and ''Attack of the Clones''.
- Zam Wesell and Aurra Sing are the only female villains to appear in any ''Star Wars'' film, though many have appeared in the Expanded Universe .
