Adam Driver

Before he became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Adam Driver had served in the Marines.

The ‘Star Wars’ actor, 41, enlisted after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 when he was 17 years old, where he served as a mortar man assigned to the weapons platoon with 1st Battalion, 1st Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

However, Driver was medically discharged with the rank of Lance Corporal two years later after he fractured his sternum while mountain biking.

During his time in the military, the ‘Ferrari’ star founded the Arts in the Armed Forces - a not-for-profit organisation that gives active-duty service members and veterans free arts programming.

He later said: “I thought, how great would it be to create a space that combine these two seemingly dissimilar communities that brought entertainment to a group of people that, considering their occupation, could handle something a bit more thought provoking than the typical, mandatory fun events that I remember being 'voluntold' to in the military.”