Actress Gina Carano settled her lawsuit against The Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm Ltd. for alleged discrimination and wrongful termination over her 2021 firing from the streaming TV series “The Mandalorian” for voicing right-wing opinions on social media, according to court papers obtained Friday.
A federal court filing Thursday from both sides says the case should be dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can’t be refiled. A judge still needs to formally dismiss the suit, which had been scheduled to go to trial in downtown Los Angeles in February 2026.
The terms of the agreement were not made available.
Carano had sought a court order that would force Lucasfilm to recast her in the series. Elon Musk had said he would help fund the suit.
According to the complaint, Lucasfilm announced in 2021 that Carano, after two seasons on the show, would not be returning to the hit series after she shared a post that compared being a Republican to being a Jew during the Holocaust, a post she ultimately removed.
The suit, filed in Los Angeles federal court, alleged Carano was fired “because she dared voice her own opinions, on social media platforms and elsewhere, and stood up to the online bully mob who demanded her compliance with their extreme progressive ideology.”
She further alleged that the defendants’ “wrath over their employees’ social media posts also differed depending on sex,” according to the suit, which alleged that Burbank-based Disney and Lucasfilm “chose to target a woman while looking the other way when it came to men.”
Attorneys for Carano wrote in the lawsuit that she “expressed her personal political views, opinions and beliefs” while she was “off-duty and away from the workplace.”
Lucasfilm said in a statement that the company looked forward to “identifying opportunities to work” with Carano.
“Ms. Carano was always well respected by her directors, co-stars, and staff,” according to the statement. “She worked hard to perfect her craft while treating her colleagues with kindness and respect.”
As a result of her posts, Carano’s former employers “terminated Carano’s employment and took other retaliatory actions to limit and deny her future employment opportunities, including but not limited to making maliciously false statements about Carano with the intention of damaging her reputation and, thus, her ability to find and retain work,” according to the complaint.
Carano, 43, a former mixed martial artist, portrayed the character Cara Dune in the first two seasons of the Disney+ space Western series from 2019 to 2020. Previously, she had roles in the first “Deadpool” movie, “Fast & Furious 6” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire.”
The suit alleged wrongful discharge and sex discrimination and sought a court order forcing Lucasfilm to recast her. She also sought a payout of at least $75,000, along with punitive damages.
“Artists do not sign away our rights as American citizens when we enter into employment,” Carano wrote in her X post last year.
In an X post Thursday, Carano announced the agreement, referring to “Star Wars” when she said she hoped the settlement would bring “some healing to the force.”
She also extended her “deepest most heartfelt gratitude” to Musk, “a man I’ve never met, who did this Good Samaritan deed for me in funding my lawsuit. Thank you Mr. Musk and @X for backing my case and asking for nothing in return.”
Carano added that she is “excited to flip the page and move onto the next chapter. My desires remain in the arts, which is where I hope you will join me. Yes, I’m smiling.”