"HOW ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE... IS PLAYED BY A MALE ACTOR"
Brian, if the identity of actors inside the Star Wars characters' costumes had ANY BEARING WHATSOEVER on the identity of the roles they were playing, that would mean that Darth Vader looked like David Prowse, even though when he's unmasked he clearly resembles SEBASTIAN SHAW!!!!
You're wrong enough to pull the ears off a gundar.