xkcd #3157: Emperor Palpatine
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Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Palpatine
But somehow he is still old and scarred.
Nothing AI can't fix (badly).
New from Disney… "Sith Babies! Two there should be. No more, no less. Why? Because they're the terrible twos!"
I would absolutely watch a toddler Sheev, Dooku, and Maul cartoon. Like Rugrats, but they're all scheming to kill each other. Anakin is a baby a la Dyl.
Who is Angelica?
I can’t find a film date, but McDiarmid was filmed for the special edition of Empire Strikes Back as the hologram of Palpatine. If you want to be exhaustive, the actor (voice acting or otherwise) also has canon appearances as the character in Rebels, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tales of the Jedi, and The Bad Batch.
Edit: Oh, how could I forget? The Exegol Broadcast as heard in the Fortnite X Star Wars event is considered canon, and the Fortnite fan wiki cites McDiarmid as the voice actor (I genuinely could not find a better source).